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What is the abstraction layer for virtualization natively available in MacOSX?

It’s the Hypervisor Framework:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor

which Apple oddly is introducing for Intel Macs only in MacOS 11, at the same time they’re introducing support for non Intel ‘Apple hardware’ Macs.

The Hypervisor framework has been in macOS since at least Mojave (if not longer, this is just what I began using it), it's not new to macOS 11.

They might be introducing a GUI or something, which is what it still lacks (there are some 3rd-party products out there, none particularly impressive last I checked).

Parallels can interface with the Hypervisor Framework instead of it's own, so there is at least one decent GUI. However performance compared to the Parallels hypervisor is very poor.

I would be interested in an Apple VM app overlay for the integrated Hypervisor though! And hopefully we see some speed improvements. :)

Seems like Apple Silicon support is already there? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor/apple_s...

And there is direct hardware support for it in Apple Silicon. It's going to be very interesting to see where things end up with Apple Silicon and what they choose to put in their silicon that would never see the light of day on Intel or other CPUs aimed for broader markets.

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