Why “hypervisor” is being discussed
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> How to prove the correctness of the mathematical specification? You can show that your specifications satisfy well-accepted criteria like confidentiality and integrity. This i…
by gr_norm · Sep 17, 2026
I'll add an addendum to the blog post at some point with a more detailed method because there is demand, but the tl;dr is: - boot macos under hypervisor (detailed guide in my pa…
by ADevWithAnIdea · Sep 17, 2026
> This PS5 incident has some strange element where supposedly keeping the reveal secret for 2 more weeks would have changed something with the GTA6 release. Well it's that GTA 6…
by ndiddy · Sep 16, 2026
This sounds like LLM noobs ruined the chance of legally playing GTA6 and habe Linux support and he seems pretty frustrated about it > I am stepping away from the ps5 scene and s…
by croes · Sep 16, 2026
"Sounds like he is salty that somebody found an exploit using LLM that he found manually" No, he's salty that this last remaining hypervisor exploit is going to get patched, cau…
by lightedman · Sep 16, 2026
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A hypervisor, also known as a virtual machine monitor (VMM), is a type of computer software, firmware, or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual machines is called a host machine or virtualization server, and each virtual machine is called a guest machine. The hypervisor presents the guest operating systems with a virtual operating platform and manages the execution of the guest operating systems. Unlike an emulator, the guest executes most instructions on the native hardware. Multiple instances of a variety of operating systems may share the virtualized hardware resources: for example, Linux, Windows, and macOS instances can all run on a single physical x86 machine. This contrasts with operating system-level virtualization, where all instances must share a single kernel, though the guest operating systems can differ in user space, such as different Linux distributions with the same kernel. Read more on Wikipedia