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Subject: Re: VirtualBox
From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
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Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>,
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Hi,

> On 18 May 2023, at 16:33, Alex Samorukov <samm@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> On 2023/05/18 15:58, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>>> VirtualBox is x86 emu.
>> Yes, and it now runs on Mac/Arm64 as of version 7, but it
>> is known to of shakey alpha quality.
> But i think it still emulates x86, so probably will be damned slow. I =
think on MacOS using qemu is a best way to run FreeBSD, of course =
aarch64. I found performance very good, as well as stability.

Parallels also works very well, if you don=E2=80=99t mind paying.

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Bob Bishop
rb@gid.co.uk