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Mac OS X This article is about new aspects of the never-ending story of how Apple is protecting MacOS X for running on different hardware than Apple's. The keyword is virtualization, which allows running unmodified version of Mac OS X as virtualized instance.
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Drivers cannot be ported from FreeBSD
by chmeee on Fri 25th Jan 2008 14:32 UTC
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The Mac OS X kernel uses IOKit for all device drivers, which is very much incompatible with the FreeBSD driver frameworks. Compatibility shims are impossible to write without reducing functionality to the lowest common denominator, and porting the drivers is a near futile task.