> On Sep 25, 2017, at 4:57 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 04:26:40PM -0400, Programmingkid wrote: >> >>> On Sep 22, 2017, at 9:18 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 08:44:05PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: >>>> On Fri, 09/22 08:10, Programmingkid wrote: >>>>> Could a Darwin test be added? Both x86 and PowerPC versions would be >>>>> great. >>>> >>>> It's nice to cover macOS in our test, but to be honest I don't know how to >>>> do >>>> it. If there isn't any copyright problem, and if there are instructions >>>> available in wiki.qemu.org descirbing how to create such a guest step by >>>> step >>>> like [1], we can add one. >>> >>> AFAICT we can not just provide or host OS-X images and let individual >>> devs run the without it being a license violation, so best avoided. >> >> Actually Darwin and Mac OS X are not the same. Darwin is this minimalistic >> environment and Mac OS X is built on top of that environment. There would >> be no license problems when using Darwin only. > > I looked for images of Darwin but haven't been able to find any modern > ones. Wikipedia claims that Apple stopped releasing installable images > of Darwin so you have to build it from source :-(
I did find this project: http://www.puredarwin.org, but they haven't released an image file yet. > >>> IMHO it easier to just rely on Travis' OS-X builders for testing OS-X >>> platform builds, so that licensing compliance is their responsibility. >> >> That might work for the x86 version of Mac OS X, but there doesn't appear >> to be any support for the PowerPC version of Mac OS X. > > Yeah, no PPC support, but then that's essentially a dead platform, so it > is questionable whether we need to care about OS-X PPC support for QEMU. > The last PPC OS-X hardware shipped 2006. Good point.
