Cilicon VS vmcli

Compare Cilicon vs vmcli and see what are their differences.

vmcli

A set of utilities (vmcli + vmctl) for macOS Virtualization.framework (by gyf304)
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Cilicon vmcli
5 7
925 816
1.3% -
7.0 2.8
about 1 month ago 11 days ago
Swift Swift
MIT License BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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Cilicon

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cilicon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-22.

vmcli

Posts with mentions or reviews of vmcli. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-04.
  • Apple Virtualization Framework
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jun 2023
    This is higher-level than the Hypervisor framework; this Virtualization framework providers an entire VM with virtio peripherals including a display.

    https://github.com/lima-vm/lima can use Virtualization framework for creating VMs, there is also https://github.com/gyf304/vmcli as a very simple CLI utility for running VMs, though it's not very actively maintained.

  • Is there anything like WSL2 in Mac?
    2 projects | /r/MacOS | 9 Jan 2023
    In that case, VMs are probably the best options. If performance is not the issue, you can look at UTM (https://docs.getutm.app/installation/macos/). Free from GitHub and $10 from App Store. Parallels is a good option as well. Or something simple as https://github.com/gyf304/vmcli from CLI.
  • Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jun 2022
    Virtualization.framework is the hypervisor itself, you only need simple tool to launch it. You probably could just copy-paste provided code into eg. https://github.com/gyf304/vmcli. However macOS 13 beta seems to be only available for registered developers.
  • M1 For Development 1 month later
    1 project | /r/swift | 17 Mar 2021
    Use https://github.com/gyf304/vmcli and install docker on Ubuntu ARM. But I am not sure, probably qemu emulation is not going to be here, so you will have to run only ARM images. And for this option you can also install k8s.
  • Show HN: Vmctl/Vmcli – Easily Run Linux VMs on M1 Macs
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 15 Jan 2021
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 15 Jan 2021
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Cilicon and vmcli you can also consider the following projects:

pine_ox64

vftool - A simple macOS Virtualisation.framework wrapper

orchard - Orchestrator for running Tart Virtual Machines on a cluster of Apple Silicon devices

UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

MonitorControl - 🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs. [Moved to: https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl]

macos-virtualbox-vm - Instructions and script to help you create a VirtualBox VM running macOS.

dark-mode - Control the macOS dark mode from the command-line

m1craft - Run Minecraft on Apple Silicon

VirtualBuddy - Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon, VirtualBuddy is a virtual machine GUI for macOS M1, M2, M3

MonitorControl - 🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.

QEMU-Manager - macOS graphical frontend to QEMU

ShadowsocksX-NG - Next Generation of ShadowsocksX