I saw https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260115203619 #OpenBSD-current can now run under Apple Hypervisor. That seems very awesome indeed.
I checked the only Mac I have access to and there’s not a Hypervisor app AFAICT.
So what does this undeadly article actually mean?
Do you need some other app? What does one need to do?
@dch As several have said, start with UTM and note that there was the bhyve front end xhyve some time ago.
@dexter @dch Last I checked, xhyve itself was very much unmaintained (5+yrs) and even before that there wasn’t much effort to keep in sync with bhyve. Thus, no arm64.
Docker on macOS uses (or used to use?) a fork of xhyve called hyperkit for running containers in Linux VMs; not sure what the state of that is.
The only up to date FOSS general purpose VMM I know of for macOS is Qemu/UTM; (I’ve not managed to keep up with dev there since sponsorship on my work on it ended.)
@dch Virtualization is provided as a framework on macOS that can be used by applications, there's an example on Apple's developer site.
Not sure if this is how OpenBSD was being tested, or if it was something else, but it might be work asking on the lists about it or reaching out directly.
@wohali aah so you need a virtualbox type app first, or. QEMU etc
Parallels on arm64 Macs uses Hypervisor.framework, the same as QEMU and UTM (which is just a GUI for QEMU).
so if an OS works under QEMU with Hypervisor.framework, it should work under Parallels as well, but it might depend on the specific hardware configuration being emulated in the VM.
(nb: QEMU refers to Hypervisor.framework as “hvf” - they're the same thing.)
