Marc, As you may realize, most versions of OS X may only be virtualized on Apple hardware per the license agreement. (An exception is Snow Leopard Server, which was ~ $500 back in the day.)
This is probably one reason why not much has been written about running OS X on SmartOS – though Yosemite on SmartOS on a Mac mini or Mac Pro should be perfectly legal. Any GUI applications will probably be quite painful without Quartz Extreme and Core Image, which require a dedicated GPU. VMware, including ESXi, officially supports OS X clients when running on Apple hardware, and can be subverted to boot OS X on non-Apple hardware. I have hosted OS X 10.9 and SmartOS simultaneously on a SuperMicro Dual Xeon 5649 based server, with a dedicated GPU for OS X and dedicated LSI HBAs for SmartOS, each passed directly to the guest OS via PCI Passthrough (a. k. a. VMDirectPath). It works well enough, but the OS X guest occasionally loses network connectivity (even with a dedicated Intel E1000 NIC via PCI Passthrough), and the SmartOS guest occasionally stops all disk I/O and needs to be rebooted. (The guest, not the ESXi host.) As for using SmartOS KVM as the hypervisor for OS X, you would probably need to use a Hackintosh install to get around the hardware restrictions in OS X, which still breaks the EULA and might also violate the DMCA. Perhaps inappropriate for commercial use... All told, virtualizing OS X in this way seems unwise. It would probably make more sense to get Mac minis and either install OS X native and use VMware Fusion to run SmartOS and/or other VMs, or install ESXi as the hypervisor for OS X, SmartOS and perhaps others. Good luck, and please report your findings! - Chris Am 26.12.2014 um 18:02 schrieb J Marc Edwards via smartos-discuss <[email protected]>: > For sure. I will post my results for the D54250WYK & the D54250WYKH SmartOS > install. > > We’re planning on using this NUC as a micro-cloud access appliance to our > company’s primary private cloud. > > I’m planning on running: > > · Customized version of the Chrome OS image in a KVM zone > · An Ubuntu image in a KVM zone > · SmartOS + KDE > · SmartOS + Gnome > · Windows image in KVM > · OS X image in KVM > > With only 16GB of memory, I think the limit will be practically 4 zones, any > combination of the above images with an aggregate of 13GB of memory. I’m > talking about this without the experience of actually doing this, so if I’m > sounding quite novice in my comments that is why. If I’m making some gross > misassumptions, please feel free to correct me. > > I’m pretty comfortable with the 1st four in the list above. Less comfortable > getting the Windows and OS X Yosemite working in the SmartOS KVM zone. > > -M > From: Sam M [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, December 26, 2014 8:49 AM > To: [email protected]; J Marc Edwards > Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] Porting SmartOS to Intel D54250WYKH NUC... > > I tried installing SmartOS on the NUC with the Celeron, which is the low end > of the NUCs. It was a no-go, SmartOS wouldn't recognise the USB keyboard, so > I couldn't initialise the HD. But I believe people have had no problems with > the i3 NUCs. > > Please post results back to this forum, since I'm considering updating to the > NUC you're installing on. > > Sam > > On 26 December 2014 at 09:05, J Marc Edwards via smartos-discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-d54250wykh.html > > Just another probe into the community as I begin undertaking a port of > SmartOS onto this Intel i5 NUC box. I’m going to install 16GB of memory on > this device for the port. I’m not planning on running more than 3 KVM zones > with 3GB of memory, plus another SmartOS zone with 4 GB. This particular NUC > supports a maximum of 16 GB of memory. > > I wondering if the SmartOS community has any words of caution, wisdom, or > experience on this port? > > Thanks in advance, Marc > > > > smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription > > > smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
