Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Sep 2005 14:44 UTC
This article is intended mainly for developers who are new to Xen and who want to know more about it. The Xen VMM (virtual machine monitor) is an open-source project that is being developed in the computer laboratory of the University of Cambridge, UK. It enables us to create many virtual machines, each of which runs an instance of an operating system. These guest operating systems can be a patched Linux kernel, version 2.4 or 2.6, or a patched NetBSD/FreeBSD kernel.
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> If you run Xen on Mac OS X , and not Mac OS X on Xen
> there is not legal restrictions
There's a terminology problem here: Xen runs under the OS kernel, so when Xen's installed *everything* is running on it. There's no "host" kernel as in VMware. The nearest to the "host" is "domain 0", a special virtual machine that has access to PCI devices.
But yes, basically if you're only running one copy of MacOS on one piece of Mac hardware you should be fine. Beyond that, the legal issues get a bit murky ;-)
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2005-07-06
> Now than Mac OS X (a FreeBSD variant) is going to be
> port to Intel ¿Could be possible to port it to OS X?
Yup. A port of the Darwin kernel could be made to run on Xen, or you could run Mac OS in fully virtualised mode. The caveat is that you'll need to satisfy the legal requirements (and any hardware tricks Apple employ) in order to bring up Mac OS X on your hardware.