VirtualBuddy
Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon, VirtualBuddy is a virtual machine GUI for macOS M1, M2, M3 (by insidegui)
MacVM
macOS VM for Apple Silicon using Virtualization API (by KhaosT)
| VirtualBuddy | MacVM | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 6 | |
| 4,523 | 1,297 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.1 | 1.8 | |
| 10 days ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| Swift | Swift | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.
VirtualBuddy
Posts with mentions or reviews of VirtualBuddy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-04.
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VirtualOS
VirtualBuddy is an interesting utility. Been running the beta and Xcode in it: https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy
- Everything feels snappier on Sonoma.
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Apple Virtualization Framework
VirtualBuddy is a great open-source project that takes advantage of this framework: https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy
- Does anyone work professionally as a web developer with a MacBook Air M1 or M2? Should I buy it?
- free macos VM om m1 mac?
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free Virtualisation on Mac M1
If you want to virtualize Mac on Mac, here's free solution https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy
- Parallels $500 price increase ... are they out of their mind?
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Possible to virtualize MacOS Ventura on Apple Silicon?
VirtualBuddy - GitHub link
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How do you virtualize? Enrolling VMs in Jamf
I’ve been using Virtual Buddy to virtualise mac for quick testing. It’s pretty quick to spin up a vm and can be enrolled without modification to the vm. I think parallels is the same.
- Has anybody used this VirtualOS software? If so, what do you think? Can't find any discussion on it anywhere so it might be a dud but curious to know if anybody has used it.
MacVM
Posts with mentions or reviews of MacVM.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-16.
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How to install Sonoma on Apple Silicon Macs with apple built-in virtualisation technology
Clone this open source repository.
- Possible to virtualize MacOS Ventura on Apple Silicon?
- VirtualBuddy: Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon
- Pass Native VMs Boot Instructions?
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How to install macOS Monterey in virtual machine using parallels desktop 17 on MacBook ?
Its far easier and better to use this
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You can now virtualize macOS Monterey on M1 Macs!
KhaosT MacVM GUI - https://github.com/KhaosT/MacVM
What are some alternatives?
When comparing VirtualBuddy and MacVM you can also consider the following projects:
UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
macOS-Virtual-Machine - A ARM macOS Virtual Machine.
vmcli - A set of utilities (vmcli + vmctl) for macOS Virtualization.framework
OPS - ops - build and run nanos unikernels
postgres-operator - Production PostgreSQL for Kubernetes, from high availability Postgres clusters to full-scale database-as-a-service.
VirtualApple - Work with macOS VMs using Virtualization
vftool - A simple macOS Virtualisation.framework wrapper
Docker-eyeOS - Run iPhone (xnu-arm64) in a Docker container! Supports KVM + iOS kernel debugging (GDB)! Run xnu-qemu-arm64 in Docker! Works on ANY device.
rd - Container Management and Kubernetes on the Desktop