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An isolated Windows 3.1 compatibility test on FreeDOS covering legal media, kernel support, modes, memory managers, drivers, backups, and rollback.
A layered bhyve UEFI diagnostic for firmware paths, VNC output, NVRAM state, EFI partitions, virtual disks, drivers, and stale VMs.
A practical boundary between emulation and hardware-assisted virtualization, including CPU execution, devices, memory, timing, and hybrid systems.
Enabling Hyper-V and creating a working virtual machine — Windows' own native, type-1 hypervisor, built directly into Pro and Enterprise editions.
A practical 2026 guide to running FreeDOS 1.4 in QEMU, virtual machines, emulators or real hardware, with verified boot, USB, firmware and network safety advice.
How bhyve combines FreeBSD's vmm kernel support, explicit virtual devices, UEFI firmware, networking, and lifecycle controls.
A current vm-bhyve workflow for verified firmware, ZFS storage, virtual switches, guest templates, installation media, consoles, and backups.
How FreeBSD jails isolate processes, filesystems, identities, networking, and resources without pretending a shared kernel is a VM.
How Virtualization.framework exposes Apple Silicon's hardware virtualization support directly to Swift applications, without a third-party hypervisor.
How WSL2 differs fundamentally from WSL1's syscall translation, running an actual Linux kernel in a lightweight, tightly-integrated VM.