Re: Is there possible run a MacOS X binary

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A MachO activator is indeed not useful without an OSX install.

But let's be honest, Mach IPC is a loadable kernel module requiring no real
kernel changes. It's not upstreamable because of a general poor
understanding of IPC by noisy commentators and a religious aversion to a
technology perceived as having failed in the marketplace of ideas.



On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:45 Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Kevin P. Neal <kpn_at_neutralgood.org>
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> > On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 02:49:07PM -0300, Nilton Jose Rizzo wrote:
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> >> Is there any emulator like linuxator to run Mac OS X binaries, or
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> > It may be possible to make an emulator for Darwin (the OS that Mac OS
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> NetBSD has (or had) a macho image activator, which is the first step
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> simple, straight forward launchd port, for example.
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