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machyve / xhyve

xhyve, a lightweight OS X virtualization solution
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Port to AMD SVM #195

Closed Technophilus closed 4 years ago

Technophilus commented 4 years ago

The latest Ryzen CPUs are great for development and virtualization. Unfortunately, on macOS desktops with AMD processors, Docker cannot be used because of its hard dependency on Hyperkit. If AMD SVM support (perhaps taken from Virtualbox?) is added to xhyve, that would allow AMD processors to run xhyve. Is there any possibility AMD SVM support will be added to xhyve?

miwagner1 commented 4 years ago

Last time I checked, Apple does not sell macs that use AMD processors and this project relies on the Apple hypervisor framework. If apple’s own framework does not support the cpu then it probably is never going to happen. Parallels and VMware have both switched to the hypervisor framework with the upcoming macOS 11 that will be released later this year. Apple is planning on removing all kernel extension support.

Technophilus commented 4 years ago

And so I assume that means Virtualbox will break as well? That is disappointing; currently the only way to run Docker on a Ryzentosh is to use a Virtualbox VM. That's alright though, if it isn't simple to port to SVM then it probably isn't worth it.