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Re:Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve by mishac on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @11:21AM (#18665166)
No more so that virtualizing one linux distro on another. Or running a Windows VM on Windows....
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Re:Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve by toxik on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @12:05PM (#18665569)
And let's be honest, while macOS has a lot of BSD in it, it isn't FreeBSD.
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Re:Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve by torstenvl on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @01:23PM (#18666304)
For example: Pre-APFS, imagine running any software with a custom data store using file system holes. Definitely something you'd rather do in a FreeBSD VM than on OS X directly.
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