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by floatboth 3500 days ago
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.
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verandaguy 3499 days ago
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!

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jsjohnst 3500 days ago
> There are other things that use Hypervisor.framework too.

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

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