Re: how to run bhyve and virtualbox at the same time

In reply to: Alexander Eichner : "Re: how to run bhyve and virtualbox at the same time"
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From: Tamas Szakaly <sghctoma_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 05:52:35 UTC

Hello,

> On hosts other than Windows and macOS VirtualBox defaults to an exclusive use of VT-x/SVM for performance reasons. That mode can be changed
> to do the initialization every time VirtualBox is scheduled on a particular CPU which has higher overhead but allows sharing the hardware virtualization capabilities
> with other hypervisors. The setting can be changed with VBoxManage. Look at the manual under [1] and search for „hwvirtexclusive“.

Sorry for the off-topic comment, but this might be interesting to other
VirtualBox users: a happy side effect of turning "hwvirtexclusive" off is that
it seems to solve the crash that occurs when the host is resuming from S3
sleep while having running VirtualBox VMs.

Toma