[Qemu-devel] Attempt at Mac OS X acceleration using "Hypervisor.Framwork"

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

Starting with Mac OS X version 10.10.3, Apple provides a system-level 
hypervisor framework (similar to KVM's kernel driver functionality on Linux).

a good write-up here:
 http://www.pagetable.com/?p=764
 http://www.pagetable.com/?p=831

a working hypervisor (forked from BSD's bhyve) is here:
  https://github.com/mist64/xhyve

This attached patch attempts to provide the infrastructure glue for qemu to use 
this framework (when compiled on Mac OS X). It is not yet functional, but 
enables the following:

  ./configure --enable-hvf --target-list=x86_64-softmmu
  qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=hvf [...]

Please advise as to whether this is the right approach, and whether it's worth 
pursuing.
Comments welcomed,
 - assaf

accel-hvf.patch
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