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Re:Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve by eksu on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @10:13AM (#18664541)
QEMU now has ‘hvf’ (hypervisor.framework) available in master as an accelerator, I think it was a summer of code project.

Wish I could use it, but the current implementation calls the xgetbv instruction which is not available on my Westemere EP processors.

All MacOS/QEMU needs is PCIE passthrough and you could have an amazing setup with thunderbolt accessories.

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Re:Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve by floam on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @07:03PM (#18668773)
> QEMU now has ‘hvf’ (hypervisor.framework) available in master as an accelerator, I think it was a summer of code project.

It was not a Summer of Code project, there was (is) a company called Veertu that did the work who sold a virtualization product for running Linux and Windows on macOS on the App Store. Because it used Hypervisor.framework, it could be sandboxed and could be on the Mac App Store.

Google forked Veertu's GitHub repo, adding a few bells and whistles for use in their Android emulator.

Finally, the work was merged upstream to QEMU.

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Re:Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve by ulzeraj on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @04:22PM (#18667883)
Mmmm eGPU + Passthrough would be sweet. Imagine gaming or using GPU heavy applications on a Windows VM with dedicated GPU and without the need for a separate set of monitor and input devices like Looking Glass does. https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass
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Re:Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve by moondev on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @03:43PM (#18667573)
Was not aware of this! Thanks for sharing, this could be a great breakthrough for interfacing with hvf machines. xhyve is sorely missing an accessible management cli.
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