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Technically, no. Effectively, sort of. When they transitioned to Apple Silicon they simultaneously transitioned to Virtio.
by JohnBooty 3y ago
Technically, no. Effectively, sort of. When they transitioned to Apple Silicon they simultaneously transitioned to Virtio.
- bonzini 3y agoIndeed, Virtualization.framework already supported virtio in guests before, but that's when they added host drivers. By the way this: > In the Virtio model, providing such support is the task of the operating system, not the virtualiser. is wrong. Virtualization.framework is a standard implementation of a virtualiser that is shipped with macOS, and while it includes virtio, it does not have to be part of the OS; the same task can be done by anyone (for example QEMU). The low-level, OS-dependent part of virtualization support is called Hypervisor.framework and it does not have any knowledge of virtio.