23 Jul
2009
23 Jul
'09
6:37 a.m.
On Thursday 23 July 2009, Liam Proven wrote:
2009/7/23 Cameron Kaiser <spectre at
floodgap.com>:
Oh, bleh. I was hoping there was a Mac version :)
From MS?! Not a chance!
I believe it's not only possible to get Mac OS X running under a
hypervisor, but even that it's easier than doing so on "bare metal".
I've not tried myself, though. But either the PC OS of your choice in
a VM under OS X Server, or OS X Server in a VM under the PC OS of
your choice, is as close as you'll get.
Innotek's VirtualBox seems to be the free hypervisor of choice these
days, but the small-f free options, TTBOMK, summarise as:
- VirtualBox from Sun ("full" freeware edition or limited FOSS
edition) under Linux, Windows or Mac OS X
- QEMU (FOSS) with KQEMU module on x86 under Windows, Linux or Mac
OS X - KVM (FOSS) on Linux on an x86 with hardware virtualisation -
VirtualPC on Windows/x86, or VirtualServer on Windows Server/x86,
from MS - VMware Player (can't create or edit VMs) or VMware Server
(on Windows or Linux) from VMware
Citrix (previously Xensource) Xen/XenServer (and VMware ESX) use a real
hypervisor. The ones you listed don't. Just because they provide
a "virtual machine" doesn't mean that they use a hypervisor to do it.
Pat
--
Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/
The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
> VirtualPC was followed by VirtualServer, a
server
> virtualisation product based on the same code, but with added
> support for features like direct control of a host SCSI
> adaptor by the OS in a VM.
Neat. Did this ever see the light of day?
Well, it was never released as a Connectix product - but Microsoft
did indeed release it, as a freebie even.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/default
.aspx