On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 09:45:06AM -0400, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 12:37:43PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > So Gabriel what's left for OS X guests to run out of the box (with > > the right key for -device applesmc of course)? > > Once Gerd imports a new SeaBIOS blob, QEMU should be able to boot > OS X "out of the box". Of course, there are stil some caveats: > > 1. We still need the Chameleon bootloader (to work around EFI): > > - by loading only its stage-2 component (named "boot") > via the "-kernel boot" command line option to QEMU > (this is how I'm starting it right now) > > - by installing all of Chameleon to the guest disk image, > the way hackintoshes do (I haven't tried this, but thought > it's worth mentioning). > > 2. e1000 flakiness: > > - link negotiation is flaky (I have a patch, but was told > and agree that it morally belongs in the BIOS layer)
Could you remind me what the issue and the patch are? > - Mavericks doesn't like the current e1000 model > (E1000_DEV_ID_82540EM); there was a patch sent to the list > to allow selecting among different e1000 models, I think > it was: > > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-02/msg04411.html > > Mavericks likes E1000_DEV_ID_82545EM_COPPER, but Windows > won't work with that, so picking which model to use from > the command line would be nice. The patch seems abandoned > at this point, so I might contact the author and ask if > he minds me picking it up and continuing to polish it until > it's acceptable :) Yay, please do that! > - virtio-net works with an "aftermarket" driver, verified to > work both in MountainLion and Mavericks. It's what I'm using > right now. > > AFAIK, that's everything :) For older OSX we need the mwait nop hack right? http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/kvm-mwait-nop-20140205.patch > There's a GSoC student (Reza Jelveh) who will be working on trying > booting OS X with OVMF (piix only for now). > > I'm toying with the idea of maybe getting OVMF to work with Q35, > but I have absolutely no idea yet how big of a job that might be, > and whether I'm mentally equipped to tackle it myself, in my "spare time" :) > > Last but not least, I keep a "current state of OS X on QEMU/KVM" > writeup online at > > http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/ > > so any new and interesting developments should show up there in a > reasonably timely way... > > Cheers, > --Gabriel
