Re: [Qemu-devel] OS-X hypervisor.framework support

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 June 2016 at 13:29, Alex Bligh <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is anyone working on support for hypervisor.framework (OS-X's
> equivalent to kvm as far as I can see)?

Not that I am aware of.

Previous discussion:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-11/msg03086.html

> If not, I might have a go in my copious spare time (cough) and if anyone 
> would be interesting in helping, or giving advice that would be great.
>
> I note that:
>   https://github.com/mist64/xhyve
>
> has support for this, and its license is described as "BSD"
> (that's it). Is that Qemu GPL compatible?

If you look at the actual source files they have the full
license text in them. It's 2-clause BSD, aka FreeBSD; the
FSF say it's GPL-compatible. We already have 3-clause BSD
in the tree and 2-BSD should be fine too.

thanks
-- PMM