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xhyve, a lightweight OS X virtualization solution
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Why xhyve can run with VirtualBox at same time? #136

Closed jjqq2013 closed 7 years ago

jjqq2013 commented 7 years ago

Hi, this is not a bug report.
As i know, only one Hypervisor can be run at same time, why would xhyve and VirtualBox can run at same time?

Does it means VirtualBox does not install a Hypervisor on Mac OS X, instead, it just install an extension to existing Hypervisor?

rickard-von-essen commented 7 years ago

You can run multiple hypervisors at the same time, I do that alot, as long as they are well behaving and clean up after themselves. There has been issues around this in the past with VirtualBox, but they have been fixed.

jjqq2013 commented 7 years ago

@rickard-von-essen Thanks for the clear answer. I'v been thinking Hypervisors can not coexist because i have seen on Windows, VirtualBox can not run when Hyper-V running. OK, closed.