[ovirt-users] MAC OS

[Vinzenz Feenstra]

On 11/20/2015 04:14 PM, Nir Soffer wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Ollie Armstrong <ollie at fubra.com> wrote:
>> As far as I am aware, the OS X EULA requires installation to be on
>> Apple branded hardware.  So unless you're oVirt Host is running on
>> Apple hardware you'd be breaking the EULA of OS X.  This is likely why
>> it isn't part of the OS option list in oVirt.
> Yea, but this between the user and Apple, oVirt does not care what do you run
> on your vms.
>
>> On 16 November 2015 at 04:56, Budur Nagaraju <nbudoor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Does oVirt supports Mac OS ? if so which option do I need to select under
>>> "operating system " .
> I don't think this option matter. oVirt supports anything that qemu
> and kvm support.
>
> Quick search suggests that it works:
> http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/
>
> Some features require guest agent, which is probably not available for OS X,
> but I guess it is possible to port the ovirt-guest-agent to OS X.
Yeah it's not available at this point. Some things might work out of the 
box others will probably need fixing, the guest agent wasn't ported yet 
to any *BSD either.
However the biggest problem for the port will be the VirtIO support 
without that, there won't be a guest agent for OSX.
>
> Adding Vinzenz (ovirt-geust-agnent maintainer).
>
> Nir


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