[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

[Natalia Portillo]

Hi,
El 09/03/2011, a las 18:44, Jordan Justen escribió:

> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 05:43, Natalia Portillo <claunia at claunia.com> wrote:
>> This may come late in the discussion, but, has OVMF been tested with Mac OS X?
> 
> No.
> 
> I don't think Apple considers VMs an acceptable usage environment for
> OS X.  Please correct me if I am mistaken.

Their EULA explicitly says that OS X Server can be run in VMs, as long as the VM is running on Apple hardware (VMWare Fusion, Parallels Desktop and VMWare ESXi for Mac are clearly authorized).
For OS X non-server it just says "must run on Apple hardware" nothing specific as on VM, but none of the previously named took the risk.

VirtualBox is almost able to run OS X now but with some tricks and no "officially supported" statement.

As currently OS X searches for an encryption key on the hardware, and there has been code for providing it if being known in QEMU, as long as the requirement is reading that code on runtime on the real hardware, there should be no legal problems.
MacOnLinux allowed to virtualize OS X on PowerPC and never received communications from Apple, even if it allowed to run on non-Apple PowerPC machines.
PearPC emulated enough of a PowerMac to make OS X run and also never received communications from Apple.

In any case, IMHO, it's up to the user to respect or violate the EULA, we just provide the knife, it's not our fault it's used for assassination and not for cutting food.

> Thanks,
> 
> -Jordan