The xhyve hypervisor is a port of bhyve to OS X. It is built on top of Hypervisor.framework in OS X 10.10 Yosemite and higher, runs entirely in userspace, and has no other dependencies. It can run FreeBSD and vanilla Linux distributions and may gain support for other guest operating systems in the future.
The xhyve hypervisor is a port of bhyve to OS X. It is built on top of Hypervisor.framework in OS X 10.10 Yosemite and higher, runs entirely in userspace, and has no other dependencies. It can run FreeBSD and vanilla Linux distributions and may gain support for other guest operating systems in the future.
To install xhyve, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
sudo port install xhyve
To see what files were installed by xhyve, run:
port contents xhyve
To later upgrade xhyve, run:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade xhyve
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