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Re:Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac w... by wyldfire on Thursday August 04, 2022 @12:48AM (#32339467)
Is HVF Apple-specific? Is it related to ARMv8.3/8.4 Nested Virtualization? Does Graviton 3 or some other commercial offering have this support too?
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Re:Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac w... by AceJohnny2 on Thursday August 04, 2022 @02:36AM (#32339863)
Yes. HVF is the QEMU driver for Apple/macOS Hypervisor.Framework
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Re:Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac w... by josteink on Thursday August 04, 2022 @05:46AM (#32340988)
So basically KVM for Mac then? So like on Linux you have QEMU+KVM, on Mac you instead have QEMU+HVF?
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Re:Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac w... by lathiat on Thursday August 04, 2022 @07:25AM (#32341534)
Pretty much!
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