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by AndrewDavis 595 days ago
> Now we just need Oracle to decide not to want to maintain the Virtualbox kernel modules

If I remember correctly you can already select KVM as the backend in Virtualbox. And in Windows you can use HyperV as your backend. Not sure about MacOS land.
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Nullabillity 595 days ago
As far as I can tell, VirtualBox supports KVM and Hyper-V personalities for its paravirtualization, presumably to be able to reuse virtio/hyperv guest drivers. The host side still seems to require their custom kernel module.
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jchw 595 days ago
Yep. That said, Virtualbox still has some advantages mostly not related to the actual hypervisor and more related to the UI and other emulation details, so I use this patch to use Virtualbox on top of KVM on my machine.

https://github.com/cyberus-technology/virtualbox-kvm

From my PoV, it mainly is just missing support for more networking options. It's said that it isn't tested much on AMD, but I'm using it on multiple different AMD boxen with no issues.

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ch_123 595 days ago
Under Apple Silicon, you are forced to use the hypervisor which is inbuilt in macOS. Both VirtualBox and VMware use said hypervisor, and do not have the original backends for macOS on Apple Silicon.
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