Scorpi

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Lightweight general-purpose hypervisor for macOS

About

• A modern, lightweight general-purpose hypervisor designed to replace QEMU
• Based on FreeBSD's Bhyve, with very small and efficient device emulation code

Key features

• Modern architecture: drops legacy devices and implements mostly modern VirtIO-based devices only, reducing complexity
• Lightweight design: written in C and based on Bhyve; minimal device emulation makes it fast and light
• General-purpose use: supports GUI and non-GUI (headless) VMs, supports EFI bootloader and ACPI, can run Linux and Windows VMs
• Modular architecture:
  • Scorpi can be integrated into other services as an API
  • Graphics, user interface, input devices, etc. are separated into modules
  • Networking can also be modularized, allowing flexible extension

See also

• VM
• Hypervisor (Korean: 하이퍼 바이저)

Favorite site

• Github - macos-fuse-t/scorpi
• Scorpi - Lightweight general-purpose hypervisor for macOS | GeekNews