[verandaguy]

Not claiming to be knowledgeable about OS X internals, but... it ships with a hypervisor now?

Is it at all similar to BSD jails?

[floatboth]

Jails aren't a hypervisor. A jail is just a number in the process table. That's what the hipsters call "containers" these days :-)

FreeBSD's hypervisor is called bhyve (and it uses vmm.ko), and xhyve is a port of bhyve to macOS (uses Apple's Hypervisor.framework). There are other things that use Hypervisor.framework too.

[verandaguy]

Yeah, my bad, I was just short on sleep when I wrote that :P

Still nice to know about Hypervisor.framework. If I ever get back to OS X I'll have to check it out!

[jsjohnst]

> There are other things that use Hypervisor.framework too.

Docker's macOS installer uses it rather than VirtualBox now if memory serves.

[rhubarbquid]

It's been there since 10.10: https://developer.apple.com/reference/hypervisor

[gonzo]

No, but there is a port of bhyve using the MacOS hypervisor.framework

https://github.com/mist64/xhyve

[microtonal]

Or, if you want something with a GUI, there is Veertu:

https://veertu.com/