qemu on Mavericks?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Jan 12 10:47:11 PST 2014


On 2014-1-13 05:19 , MK-MacPorts at techno.ms wrote:
> I wanted to give qemu a shot - as an alternative for the currently non-functioning virtual box [1] …
> 
> 	Anyone out there who’s successfully using qemu on Mavericks?
> 
> The small test linux image supplied by the qemu folks is running fine, but I am stuck installing OpenSUSE 13.1...
> Either qemu is horribly slow or it is not able to successfully find USB devices for it at all. 
> :-(

Well, it is going to be a lot slower than VirtualBox, as qemu is an
emulator under these circumstances. Though there could also be issues
with the USB support.

> P.S.: qemu likes to use kvm under Linux... Is this not supplied on MacOSX?

Nope, that's a Linux kernel thing.

- Josh


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