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Not claiming to be knowledgeable about OS X internals, but... it ships with a hypervisor now? Is it at all similar to BSD jails?
by verandaguy 10y ago
Not claiming to be knowledgeable about OS X internals, but... it ships with a hypervisor now?
Is it at all similar to BSD jails?
- gonzo 10y agoNo, but there is a port of bhyve using the MacOS hypervisor.framework https://github.com/mist64/xhyve https://github.com/mist64/xhyve
- danieldk 10y agoOr, if you want something with a GUI, there is Veertu: https://veertu.com/ https://veertu.com/
- rhubarbquid 10y agoIt's been there since 10.10: https://developer.apple.com/reference/hypervisor https://developer.apple.com/reference/hypervisor
- floatboth 10y agoJails aren't a hypervisor. A jail is just a number in the process table. That's what the hipsters call "containers" these days :-) FreeBSD's hypervisor is called bhyve (and it uses vmm.ko), and xhyve is a port of bhyve to macOS (uses Apple's Hypervisor.framework). There are other things that use Hypervisor.framework too.
- jsjohnst 10y ago> There are other things that use Hypervisor.framework too. Docker's macOS installer uses it rather than VirtualBox now if memory serves.
- verandaguy 10y agoYeah, my bad, I was just short on sleep when I wrote that :P Still nice to know about Hypervisor.framework. If I ever get back to OS X I'll have to check it out!