auto-unlocker
Unlocker for VMWare macOS (by paolo-projects)
macpine
Lightweight Linux VMs on MacOS (by beringresearch)
| auto-unlocker | macpine | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 17 | |
| 3,868 | 866 | |
| - | - | |
| 1.9 | 7.8 | |
| 12 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C++ | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
auto-unlocker
Posts with mentions or reviews of auto-unlocker.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.
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Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
You can use VMware Workstation Player and an unlocker like Auto-Unlocker (https://github.com/paolo-projects/auto-unlocker) to enable Mac OS as a guest. It works, but it's very slow because the Mac guest runs without GPU acceleration.
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Updated Racks for 2023
He recommends 'auto-locker': https://github.com/paolo-projects/auto-unlocker
- MacOS on VMware Workstation without Unlocker?
macpine
Posts with mentions or reviews of macpine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.
- Tiny Alpine VMs on macOS with instance encryption
- Lightweight Linux VMs on macOS
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Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
I recommend having a look at [1] which allows you to run lightweight alpine VMs on MacOS with easy port forwarding, file sharing, and you can easily run docker inside of it and use docker context to target it.
[1] https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine
- Lightweight Linux VMs on Apple Silicon
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Lightweight Alpine VMs on macOS
I don't see the point of a dedicated tool for this when it is easy enough just to start a Alpine docker container with a couple commands. As this project is just a wrapper for docker and LXD[1] and those tools are already easy enough for the average SWE to interact with, the project seems to just over-complicate an already existing workflow.
[1] https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine#motivation
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LXD containers on macOS at near-native speeds
It uses almost same mounting tech as colima (9p)
Macpine: https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine/blob/71788e9c3c09c...
colima: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/blob/7ebcf14a69158afa43b2...
So it seems that it has same performance as colima project as well.
As for IO performance, see this colima issue https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/issues/146#issuecomment-1...