Hello,
As some of you may have noticed, since QEMU 2.9.0, an accelerator known
as “hax” has been available for Windows and macOS builds of QEMU, thanks
to the hard work of Vincent Palatin and help from this community (Paolo
Bonzini, Stefan Weil, et al.).
The accelerator requires a host kernel module (driver) known as Intel
Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM), i.e. intelhaxm.sys on
Windows or intelhaxm.kext on macOS, similar to how the KVM accelerator
depends on kvm.ko on Linux.
Today, we released the source code of the HAXM kernel module under the
BSD 3-clause license:
https://github.com/intel/haxm
We look forward to working with the community to improve HAXM (both the
kernel module and the accelerator). The code is accompanied by some
basic documentation (README.md and API.md), which is incomplete, but
hopefully helps people get started. If you have any questions or
suggestions, please create an issue or post a comment on GitHub.
Thanks,
Yu
