UTM
colima
UTM | colima | |
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244 | 112 | |
24,885 | 17,427 | |
2.6% | - | |
9.6 | 8.2 | |
24 days ago | 13 days ago | |
Swift | Go | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
UTM
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iPad Pro M4 review: ludicrously good hardware that's total overkill for most
I have that Magic Keyboard and would love to have the option to run real Linux via https://getutm.app/. The iPad is fully capable of this, but it is a pain because you have to jailbreak it. Ugh.
- Apple M4 benchmarks suggest it is new single-core performance champ
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Is it impossible to upgrade from 15.1 to 16.3?
If you have TrollStore then install the HV version of UTM to try for yourself: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/releases/latest/download/UTM.HV.ipa
- UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
- Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
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Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64
Researching a little showed that this is basically what can be expected running x86 emulation and the systems will just be wonky and slow, although it was running flawlessly, just slow.
There seem to be ways to use Rosetta2 inside a VM [0] to then translate binaries but I found no official support or documentation (using UTM+QEMU that was), this would be such a cool feature, at least there are discussions about it [1,2]
- [0] https://mybyways.com/blog/using-rosetta-in-a-utm-linux-vm-wi...
- [1] https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/discussions/4939
- [2] https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/5460
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Run a macOS VM on Apple Silicon from a double-click with Vimy
UTM is open source too though: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM#license
- Is there a way that I can dual boot iPadOS with Windows 11?
- UTM – Run Virtual Machines on iOS
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UTM for Developers
UTM makes it easy to set up and manage macOS and Windows virtual machines. This can be especially useful for developers such as Tauri contributors who need to test their applications across multiple platforms, or for those looking to experiment with different operating systems without affecting their primary system.
colima
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Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers
I'm surprised this says "with focus on running containers", I thought that would be colima, which uses Lima but is a separate project. https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
Lima is more of a nice way to run a Linux VM on Mac in a way that integrates the guest and the host systems to a good degree by default. It wraps either QEMU or Apple's VZ framework.
For a more traditional VM GUI, there's https://mac.getutm.app/ which is a completely separate project that also wraps QEMU or VZ.
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How I ended up using Colima for Docker on Apple Silicon
While looking into the issue with Podman, I came across colima. Apart from being able to run AMD64 images out of the box, there were additional benefits to it, one of which was, unlike podman, colima could use Rosetta 2 for x64 emulation (which is significantly more performant).
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Lcl.host: fast, easy HTTPS in your local dev environment
If you don't need a GUI, the following combo works pretty well:
- https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
- https://github.com/peterldowns/localias
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Damn Small Linux 2024
You might look into CoLima as a way to get started.
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima?tab=readme-ov-file
Its user interface is Docker-like, using containers.
For full desktop, I've only used the commercial app "Parallels", which can set up an Ubuntu desktop for you. Also Fedora and Alpine and Debian I believe.
But
> I don't really have any resources to share. I just know how to boot a vmlinuz with an initramfs using QEMU, and decided to download the Linux kernel source code and try compiling it.
I highly recommend working through Linux from Scratch and possibly the Gentoo Handbook. It's a journey.
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Howto: WASM runtimes in Docker / Colima
I could not find any guide how to add WASM container capability to Docker running on Colima. This guide provides a few Colima templates for exactly this, which adds WasmEdge, Wasmtime and Wasmer runtime types.
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RamRamRamEveryoneSleepingOnDocker
Colima runs much faster on Macos: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
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Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data
After docker desktop became unusable, I jumped to colima and never looked back. I still use the docker runtime in it (the non-proprietary part) but it also supports containerd. On Mac it's just a "brew install colima" and then "colima start"
I also install the compose and ecr credentials plug-ins (since I use ecr for my container registry.) It has the full functionality of docker desktop minus the UI, which I never used anyways.
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
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K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
On my M1 Pro system, I have nothing but positive things to say about the experience of using Colima (https://github.com/abiosoft/colima). Quick to set up and fast to use.
- abiosoft/colima
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UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
I'd say Lima and Colima should be enough for most use cases:
https://lima-vm.io/
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
What are some alternatives?
QEMU - Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.
lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers
macos-virtualbox - Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS
Podman Desktop - Podman Desktop - A graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes
minikube - Run Kubernetes locally
ish - Linux shell for iOS
rd - Container Management and Kubernetes on the Desktop
Code-Server - VS Code in the browser
podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
terraform-provider-libvirt - Terraform provider to provision infrastructure with Linux's KVM using libvirt
multipass - Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances