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Linux's KUnit Will Now Default To Using Hardware Acceleration For Faster Testing
Surprisingly a change not made years ago, the Linux Kernel Unit Testing 'KUnit' framework with the Linux 6.14 kernel is set to use hardware acceleration by default for faster testing where available.
Surprisingly up until now the KUnit testing script hasn't attempted to make use of hardware acceleration for virtualization by default. Tamir Duberstein who authored the patch enabling KUnit hardware acceleration by default explained: The patch is attempting to use KVM, HVF (macOS Hypervisor Framework), or otherwise the Tiny Code Generation (TCG) depending upon the platform / how QEMU was built.
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