OpenBSD/arm64 Now Compatible as Guest OS Under Apple Hypervisor
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Summary
OpenBSD/arm64 now functions as a guest operating system under Apple Hypervisor following recent commits by developers Helg Bredow and Stefan Fritsch. The changes involve fixing viogpu_wsmmap() to return a physical address instead of a kva, which resolves issues with QEMU compatibility. This technical development enables OpenBSD to run on Apple's virtualization platform for ARM64 architecture.
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· 3 pulledOpenBSD/arm64 now works as a guest operating system under the Apple Hypervisor.
Following a recent series of commits by Helg Bredow (helg@) and Stefan Fritsch (sf@)
viogpu_wsmmap() returns a kva but instead should return a physical address via bus_dmamem_mmap(9). Without this, QEMU wo
Following a recent series of commits by Helg Bredow (helg@) and Stefan Fritsch (sf@), OpenBSD/arm64 now works as a guest operating system under the Apple Hypervisor.
