Re: [Qemu-discuss] KVM on Mac OS X host

[Programmingkid]

On Aug 21, 2015, at 8:58 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 21 August 2015 at 23:22, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Do you think there is any hope for hypervisor support in Mac OS X
>> for QEMU?
> 
> It's not impossible. But it would require somebody who:
> * cares about it working
> * is technically capable of implementing it
> * is willing to stay around the project in the medium-to-long
>   term to maintain the feature
> 
> Such a person could turn up tomorrow, or never -- it's impossible
> to predict.

Theoretically speaking if QEMU was switched to VirtualBox's hypervisor, it 
would only take one person to keep things working on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, 
and Windows. The API would probably be the same on all three platforms so 
changes would be pretty uniform. It might be a better hypervisor than KVM. 

If the API did change, one patch might make things working again on all four 
operating systems.