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Veertu Desktop Hosted Hypervisor

Overview

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. 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.

Download

To Install Veertu Desktop on Mac, please visit veertu.com

Building

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

Environment

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.

License

VDHH is licensed under the terms of the GPL v2.