Veertu Desktop Hosted Hypervisor(VDHH) is the core hypervisor platform for Veertu Desktop product. Veertu Desktop is native virtualization for macOS platforms to run Linux and Windows VMS built by Veertu Inc. VDHH is a Type 2 hypervisor built on top of Apple macOS Hypervisor.Framework and QEMU device emulation codebase. It uses APIs provided by the framework for resource scheduling and power management, without the need to install kernel level extensions (KEXTs). As a result, it's extremely lightweight, responsive and less resource intensive.
Veertu Desktop supports Vagrant and also has API interface for custom automation. It supports shared folders and Copy and Paste for Windows VMs. We have also implemented support for Level 2 Bridged networking and USB Passthrough using privileged helpers that performs few configuration tasks, without compromising all the system resources.
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Sources are being tracked in Xcode projects for now. To build VDHH with corresponding dependencies use vmx.xcworkspace from the project root.
xcodebuild -workspace vmx.xcworkspace -scheme vmx
VDHH could be launched as standalone application from command line
vmx -vm <path_to_vm_folder>
but to achieve full set of features, it have to be launched by Veertu Desktop
app. Veertu Desktop configures environment of vmx process and contains number of
helper tools, used by vdhh. To start custom version of vdhh the vdlaunch tool
(shipped with Veertu Desktop) could be used
vdlaunch [-vmx <path_to_custom_vdhh/Contents/MacOS/vmx>] [-vm vm_name_or_path]
If -vmx argument is omitted, default (being shipped with Veertu Desktop) hypervisor will be used to run VM.
VDHH is licensed under the terms of GPL v2.