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Re:Using the OS X 10.10 Hypervisor Framework: A Simple DOS E... by raimue on Thursday January 07, 2016 @10:31AM (#10858420)
No, Hypervisor.framework will not help with this use case. It is a replacement for the kernel extensions that are currently provided by VMWare/Parallels/VirtualBox to expose the Intel VT-x feature of the CPU.

You would need a way to stop the official kernel extensions from initializing the PCIe device. Then Apple would need to offer a way to map address range and deliver interrupts from the hardware to a process.

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Re:Using the OS X 10.10 Hypervisor Framework: A Simple DOS E... by eropple on Thursday January 07, 2016 @10:34AM (#10858428)
And to do so securely, which is a rather different question all on its own.
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