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From: Gregory Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net>
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 11:53:02AM +0200, Tomek CEDRO wrote:

> Thanks Pete, this is my main question if bhyve / vbox / kernel
> supports it at all :-)

>From my experience it does.

Some time back I upgraded the CPUs on an HP Z800 because the 
original ones did not support VT-D. Then I had to enable that
in the BIOS.

But afterwards I was able to run a rancher cluster under bhyve
to play with. it was only a toy, but it worked.


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