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

[Programmingkid]

On Aug 21, 2015, at 2:57 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 19 August 2015 at 20:40, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> On Aug 19, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> 
>>> On 18 August 2015 at 14:12, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Do you think this should be a Google Summer of Code project?
>>> 
>>> I guess it's probably a size that would work for a GSoC
>>> project with a suitably capable and enthusiastic student.
>>> 
>>> Are you asking because you would want to do it as a GSoC
>>> project yourself, or because you'd like to see it on the list
>>> so somebody might apply and volunteer to do it?
>> 
>> I would do it myself but I don't know too much about hypervisors,
>> so I'm hoping there is someone else out there who is far more
>> qualified to do it. This will probably take a GSOC student to do it.
>> Maybe I will add this to the 2016 GSOC page if it exists yet.
> 
> I spoke to Alex Graf, who said he'd had a look into the OSX
> hypervisor API. Apparently the amount of work required to
> support this would be more than my initial glance at the API
> suggested, so it's really too large to be a GSOC project.
> Also a major problem is that it would be a large amount of
> code which would need to be maintained into the future by
> somebody, which makes a GSOC project a poor fit -- GSOC
> students often don't stick around after the end of the summer,
> so there wouldn't be a maintainer for the code.

Do you think it would be possible to use VirtualBox's hypervisor with QEMU on 
Mac OS X, and/or Linux, and/or Windows?