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I would suggest that Xen is not going to get you what you want; to my knowledge, you cannot simply virtualize OSX on top of Xen even on a Macbook, as OSX looks for a special piece of hardware that Xen does not (and perhaps legally cannot) virtualize. Passthrough may get you there, but that's a whole, huge can of worms that you should probably read more about before considering.

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Patrick Schless <patrick.schless@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I can't answer most of your questions, but I got XCP running on a new mac mini this weekend. The only trick was getting it to boot after installation. Had to bring up the recovery partition and bless the hard drive. More info: http://www.plainlystated.com/2013/04/xcp-xen-on-a-mac-mini/

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle <slackmoehrle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

I have a 2011 MacBook Pro with 16gb of RAM and 1.5tb. (I took out the optical drive and striped together 2 x 750gb.)

I write code, C++ and I am not in a position where I need to run Windows, Linux and OS X, various versions.

I have read about Xen-hypervisor before.

My questions:
1. How is the compatibility on a macBook Pro? I can get a live-cd and try this out.

2. With VM's running, would I just use them on the MacBook Pro like I normally would (like you can a VMWare virtual machine)?

3. What about closing the lib and going home? Is there suspend on the hypervisor? Would I need to suspend each VM, then close the lid or is that really not supported.

4. Can one extend Xen so that I could scp into the hypervisor and backup the vm's if I needed to?

I'd love to hear thoughts.

Jason

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