Re: [Xen-users] UEFI / Mac OS X

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Steffan Cline <steffan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Let’s say I have Xen running on a Mac and I want to virtualize OS X.
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> I can see that by default Xen uses the bochs bios but UEFI support is
> necessary for booting into a newer MacOS X.
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> Is there a way to do this?

Yes, Xen supports OVMF, which implements EFI for xen guests:

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/OVMF

Hmm, looks like that wiki page could use some updating to make it more
Google-friendly. :-)

> Has anyone else tinkered with it?
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> I’ve googled LONG and hard but all the articles are for 10.6 Snow Leopard
> which is OLD.

I'm CC'ing Jon Ludlam, who did work with this a long time ago --
hopefully he doesn't mind.  Not sure if he has much to add over what
you've found out yourself, though.

 -George

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