However, it cannot be nested (you can't run a KVM-HV guest inside a KVM-HV guest, though you can run a KVM-PR guest more on that in a moment), and most importantly, it supports only virtualizing the same processor generation or the one immediately prior. It uses the hardware support in later Power ISA CPUs, so it's overall faster, particularly when many supervisor-level instructions must be executed. KVM-HV is the more modern of the two and the most technically like hypervisors on other architectures. KVMPPC comes in two flavours, KVM-PR ('PRoblem') and KVM-HV ('HyperVisor') both work in big and little endian modes.

We'll address that pain point in another 'First Person' post coming soooooon.Īnyway, a brief digression before we begin, for those unfamiliar with how KVM works on Power ISA. The other is the damn Command key working like it's supposed to. It shouldn't be a surprise that the common architecture was a big plus for me, and it's possible to run OS X with reduced emulation overhead on the processor using the same Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) scheme used for virtualization on other platforms.Įmulation is of course just one of the things us old Mac users would like working properly on the new Power hotness. Talospace is a spinoff from the TenFourFox Development blog, which for those unfamiliar with it, is a Firefox fork maintained for Power Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5.

Classic mac emulator acceleration