Re: [Qemu-discuss] [Qemu-devel] Apple hypervisor.framework (hvf) availability

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 08/02/2018 11:21, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 7 February 2018 at 23:05, Brendan Simon (eTRIX)
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>  There must be some qemu developers that
>> have access to Macs and may even be Mac users too (just an assumption).
> 
> Nope, pretty much not. Almost all the QEMU developers use
> Linux -- the BSDs and Windows hosts are also not very well
> represented in the QEMU dev community.

Indeed.  However, Windows at least has Wine and it can also be
virtualized if you have a legal license.  If Apple wants to donate even
oldish hardware to developers, I'm sure it'd be welcome. :)

Paolo

> I have a Mac, but I only really use it for doing build tests,
> so we at least keep the OSX support from bitrotting entirely.
> More developers working on and with the OSX parts of the QEMU
> code would certainly be welcome.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
>