hypervisor is a Rust library that taps into functionality that enables hardware-accelerated execution of
virtual machines on OS X.
It binds to the Hypervisor framework on OS X, and exposes a safe Rust interface through the hypervisor module, and an unsafe foreign function interface through the hypervisor::ffi module.
To use this library, you need
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OS X Yosemite (10.10), or newer
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an Intel processor with the VT-x feature set that includes Extended Page Tables (EPT) and the Unrestricted Mode. To verify this, run and expect the following in your Terminal:
$ sysctl kern.hv_support kern.hv_support: 1
- Accessing x86 registers
- Accessing model-specific registers (MSRs)
- Mapping guest physical memory segments into guest physical address space
- Virtual CPUs
- Executing and interrupting
- Force flushing cached state
- Invalidating translation lookaside buffer (TLB)
- Accessing floating point (FP) and SIMD state
- Obtaining cumulative execution time
- Synchronizing guest timestamp-counters (TSC)
- Accessing fields of Virtual Machine Control Structures (VMCS)