[Qemu-devel] os x support & panther

[Satadru Pramanik]

First, congratulations on the release of qemu 5.0.  The feature set 
looks really nice.

I know that the issue of OS X support has come up recently on this 
list, but had a tiny bit to chip in as I hadn't seen much activity 
regarding it here in the last week.

OS X 10.3 came out this weekend, and Apple's page on OS X 10.3 states:

Panther emulates the System V poll system call on top of BSDís native 
select API, and the dlopen/dlclose dynamic library access routines “ 
used with Executable and Linking Format (ELF) binaries on Linux, BSD, 
and other operating systemsóon top of the native Mach-O format used on 
Mac OS X. With these routines available on Mac OS X, developers of 
cross-platform UNIX applications can port libraries and applications to 
Mac OS X with little or no change to their existing applications.

Does this mean that we should be able to run a linuxppc binary in some 
sort of chroot on an OS X System without any changes?  The whole 
concept of supporting qemu on OS X is a bit of a sharecropper's dream, 
but if we can just run the linuxppc binary on an OS X system, that 
would be sufficient to run things like a linux/i386 version of wine, 
right?

I likely know nothing about what I am talking about, but seeing some 
names on this list from the days ( late 90s) when I ran linuxppc makes 
me very happy, especially with a new powerbook that I am eager to try 
qemu on...

Satadru

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