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[emilwojtaszek]

This project looks awesome, is this still under development?

[aphor]

No

[kbarmen]

Apart from VirtualBox, are there any alternatives around?

[rickard-von-essen]

@kbarmen OSS Qemu (in homebrew), and closed source there is Parallels Desktop for Mac and VMware Fusion.

[rickard-von-essen]

The code here is the base of Docker for Mac's VM, see https://github.com/moby/hyperkit.

[kbarmen]

Yes, was about to answer myself about qemu.. .but it is really slow compared to xhyve, I suppose because it doesn't use the hypervisor framework of macos :( Will look at the hyperkit, maybe there are some tricks to speed things up.

[kbarmen]

And, thanks for quick reply! 👍

[aphor]

124 Discusses the continued development effort. Please check that issue for news.

[dmarion]

Latest qemu actually can use Hypervisor.framework, it works for me by simply passing -machine pc,accel=hvf -cpu host to qemu...

[clobber]

Latest qemu actually can use Hypervisor.framework, it works for me by simply passing -machine pc,accel=hvf -cpu host to qemu...

~No, this does not appear to be the case as of QEMU 3.0.0~

~Passing -machine pc,accel=hvf -cpu host or simply -accel hvf returns -machine accel=hvf: No accelerator found~

~QEMU 2.12 added "experimental" support for Apple's Hypervisor.framework which is removed in the latest stable release (installed via homebrew). -accel help Possible accelerators: kvm, xen, hax, tcg~

Update: It accepts the flags under qemu-system-x86_64

[llelf]

Latest qemu actually can use Hypervisor.framework, it works for me by simply passing -machine pc,accel=hvf -cpu host to qemu...

No, this does not appear to be the case as of QEMU 3.0.0

Works for me.

[hazcod]

Can we add a notice on the README that the project is dead and people should use QEMU with the appropriate flags?

[aphor]

Nobody but the original repo owner has write access to the repo. :(

[jeremyhu]

That was fixed yesterday.