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Re: [Xen-API] OS X DomU Driver Porting



Hi Pasi,
You may be absolutely correct on that one... but do remember that most Linux 
DomUs are PV, not HVMs.

The windows drivers stand as a good guide or reference for building these 
things, if anyone is up to the challenge..?

Cheers,
Alan


On 27/06/2013, at 8:00 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 06:42:18PM +1000, Alan Forbes wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Now that the Guest Agent, XenVif, XenBus, etc drivers for Windows are 
>> open-sourced and available freely online, is there a possibility of having 
>> these drivers ported to OS X as a first step to officially (possibly) 
>> supporting OS X guests ?
>> 
>> There is the question of the legalities of running OS X as a guest; I am not 
>> asking about that, and am only asking about driver/kext support using 
>> existing code.
>> 
> 
> I'm guessing it'd be easier to port Linux/FreeBSD drivers to OSX than Windows 
> drivers.. OSX is UNIX after all.
> 
> -- Pasi
> 


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