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		tpetry on Oct 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now t... They could have a very bare bone macOS based server operating system specialised for running virtual machines. Dont they have their own xhyve virtualisation layer?

_ph_ on Oct 4, 2020 | [–]

Federighi mentioned during some interviews after the Big Sur presentation, that macOS is a great hypervisor for vitualisation, when asked about Linux on AS Macs. Running Linux in the cloud would equally easy.

ravi-delia on Oct 3, 2020 | [–]

A lot of the prelim work is probably already being done with their docker optimizations.

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