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lima
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Ask HN: Startup Devs -What's your biggest pain while managing cloud deployments?
for others similarly curious, here's an example of the thing: https://github.com/noop-inc/template-java-spring-boot/blob/m...
they seem to be using the excellent lima <https://github.com/lima-vm/lima#readme> for booting on macOS; I run colima for its containerd and k8s support but strongly recommend both projects $(brew install lima colima)
- macOS 14.4 causes JVM crashes
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Simulate an Ubuntu-like VM inside macOS
I tend to use https://lima-vm.io/ these days when I need a quick VM environment locally on my laptop.
Lima is what I use as well. It's quick and easy to just fire up a VM with default settings, but also very easy to configure with different file sharing options, port forwarding, different linux distributions, etc. (their examples are also pretty good IMO [1]).
In particular I use it to run an amd64 VM, which I need to run a stubborn service for work that doesn't run on arm CPUs.
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Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
For Linux, and if you only need to run CLI tools, I've been very happy with Lima [0]. It runs x86-64 and ARM VMs using QEMU, but can also run ARM VMs using vz [1] (Apple virtualization framework[2]) that is very performant. Also, along with the project colima [3] you can easily start Docker/Podman/Kubernetes instances, totally substituting Docker Desktop for me.
For desktop environments (Linux/Windows) I've used UTM [4] with mixed success. Although it's been almost a year since last time I used it, so maybe it runs better now
There's also Parallels, and people say it's a good product, but it's around USD/EUR 100, and I haven't tested it as I don't have that need.
And there's VMWare Fusion but... who likes VMWare? ;)
[0] - https://lima-vm.io
Lima (1) is a project that packages Linux distros for MacOS and executes them via qemu in the backend. Maybe you could solve your problem by launching one of their vms and inspecting the command line it generates. You might find an option you were missing.
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The beginning of my eBPF Journey - Kprobe Adventures with BCC
If you wish to delve into all the configuration possibilities for Lima VM, you can visit this resource.
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UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
I'd say Lima and Colima should be enough for most use cases:
Someone pointed me to Lima which is a bit like wsl2 for macos: https://lima-vm.io
Not sure what is used underneath but it worked great for me.
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Lima: Linux Virtual Machines on macOS
Github: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
Lima wraps QEMU in a simple CLI, with neat features for container users, such as filesystem sharing and automatic localhost port forwarding, as well as DNS and proxy propagation for enterprise networks. Rancher Desktop wraps Lima with k3s integration and GUI.
Talks: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/docs/talks.md
UTM
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UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
> Has anyone found a reasonably painless way to migrate their disk images from Parallels to UTM?
These instructions may do the trick: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/4927#issuecomment-16294...
- 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...
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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.
- Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
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Best option for running older, non-intense games (Win and 32-bit)
Maybe works with this: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM
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Linux Distrustful on iPad?
Yes. See UTM. iOS 11+, iPad support, no jailbreak required.
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Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines
There’s UTM, you’ll have to side load it though
What are some alternatives?
colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
multipass - Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances
podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
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.
macos-virtualbox - Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS
Docker-OSX - Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.
minikube - Run Kubernetes locally
nerdctl - contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...
ish - Linux shell for iOS
rancher - Complete container management platform
Podman Desktop - Podman Desktop - A graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes
podman-desktop - launch and setup vms for podman