Re: [Retitled!] some under-VM detections for non-amd64 may be broken

From: Olivier_Cochard-Labbé <olivier_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:42:28 UTC
On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Another example might be if new VM contexts should be added,
> such as UTM for macOS. What do kenv smbios.system.product ,
> sysctl kern.vm_guest , and sysctl kern.hz report for UTM on:
>
> ) amd64 macOS
> ) aarch64 macOS
> ) . . . ?
>

Hi,

UTM on Apple M3 running aarch64 FreeBSD VM (main branch):

olivier@vm:~ $ kenv smbios.system.product
QEMU Virtual Machine
olivier@vm:~ $ sysctl kern.vm_guest
kern.vm_guest: generic
olivier@vm:~ $  sysctl kern.hz
kern.hz: 100

UTM on Apple Intel running amd64 FreeBSD 14.2 VM:

root@freebsd:~ # kenv smbios.system.product
Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
root@freebsd:~ # sysctl kern.vm_guest
kern.vm_guest: generic
root@freebsd:~ # sysctl kern.hz
kern.hz: 100

UTM on Apple Intel running aarch64 FreeBSD 14.2 VM:

root@freebsd:~ # kenv smbios.system.product
QEMU Virtual Machine
root@freebsd:~ # sysctl kern.vm_guest
kern.vm_guest: generic
root@freebsd:~ # sysctl kern.hz
kern.hz: 100

Regards,

Olivier