> I set up an arm64 OpenBSD VM using QEMU on macOS M3. > 1) Building the fish shell port from source was really long (around 2 hours - > as it was also building tools required for the build).
Try "pkg_add fish" or if you really need to compile it yourself, allow ports to pkg_add build dependencies by setting the env var to allow it. "man ports" -> search for FETCH_PACKAGES > 2) And I also notice that just running the VM is really power-hungry. > Any clue for resolving these problems? Compiling would presumably try to use a lot of cpu in order to finish quickly, but I could also imagine that while arm64 arches may or may not have good support for clocking up and down based on load, it would still require the kernel and the "virtual" environment to agree on a good way to influence what pretend-frequency the cpu should run at, or how to nicely idle in between tasks and interrupts. If they do not agree on that, I'm guessing it would be full speed at all times. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
