Virtual Machines & Binary Compatibilty

[Ken Cunningham]

Sure -- almost all the buildbots run in VMs, after all :>

It runs VMWare, I believe Ryan has said.

The ports that are cpu specific are generally forced to build locally.

I use VirtualBox for 10.4 Intel and 10.6 32bit (and a bunch of older Windows systems -- windows95, windows98, windows2000, etc).

I use Parallels for 10.5 - 10.14. For 10.5 and 10.6 you need server editions of MacOS, as mentioned.

I use qemu for 10.4 PPC and 10.5 PPC on a MacPro 5,1, but that is really stretching it I guess ....

To share local archives, I do this:

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/ShareArchives2

I have a huge library of > 800 ports built for 10.4 PPC, and more than that built for 10.5 Intel and 10.6/libc++ shared locally.


Ken