On 2023-12-12, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > I've been told by some that OpenBSD has no hardware-assisted VMs, and
That has been wrong since around 2012 when ldomd was added (on sparc64). On amd64, vmm(4) was added in ~2015. (_qemu_ on OpenBSD does not have hw virtualisation support, but that is not the only way to do VMs). > others that it does. Without hardware assisted VMs, a very slow > software emulator is required making the guest seem like it's on a 14.4 > modem. > > So my question is, does vmm have hardware assist? vmm(4) provides kernel support for hardware virtualisation on x86. That is used (and required) by vmd(8). -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
