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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Intel Macs?
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Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> 
>>> iMac, download the EFI spec from www.intel.com, open up the existing
>>
>>
>> For the lazy / impatient / bad searchers:
>> http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/
> 
> 
> On a related note, anyone know about any VMWare or Xen or other similar 
> virtual machine environment for Mac/Intel?  (FreeBSD on Virtual PC on 
> Rosetta sounds very scary... ;-(
> 
> Tim
> 

A meta-question to this is whether it will be possible to compile and
boot OpenDarwin on these x86 machines, like you can with the PPC ones.
If you can then I see no reason why Darwin couldn't be Xen-ified and
serve as a Domain-0 host.

Scott