macadmin-scripts
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macadmin-scripts
- ISO macOS Monterey installer 12.5 or earlier
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Apple Virtualization Framework
You download them from Apple. https://mesu.apple.com/assets/macos/com_apple_macOSIPSW/com_... is the canonical updater data source. https://mrmacintosh.com/apple-silicon-m1-full-macos-restore-... is that in HTML form, and there's various tools like https://github.com/munki/macadmin-scripts/blob/main/getmacos... for automating it.
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Downgrade / Rollback to Earlier version of Monterey
Commonly - in the past - MacAdmins would use Greg Neagle's superlative installinstallmacos.py script to get a specific installer.
- Where to find OSX 10.13 ?
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Offline install macOS using dmg file in recovery
MacOS dmg/iso file, you can create manually from App Store or using macadmin-scripts
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Download Installer when Ventura is already installed
You can use https://github.com/munki/macadmin-scripts
- does anybody have the macos mojave installer?
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macOS Ventura Beta 1 Success OpenCore 8.2
Get macOS beta image using installinstallmacos.py. Pass the arguments (--seedprogram DeveloperSeed) to list dev beta images.
- Fetch Full Installer Never Fetches Full Installer
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[Tool] MacRecoveryX - a recovery image tool with GUI
This script can create disk images containing macOS Installer applications available via Apple's softwareupdate catalogs. From here: GitHub - munki/macadmin-scripts: Scripts of possible interest to macOS admins
vftool
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Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
As an alternative, here's a really minimalist command-line wrapper to run VMs in the macOS Virtualization.framework: https://github.com/evansm7/vftool
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Apple Virtualization Framework
Does vftool use https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization or https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor ?
https://github.com/evansm7/vftool appears to indicate the former, but I thought the later was required for rosetta so interested to try this.
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Ask HN: What is your development workflow on the MacBook M1?
The battery life on the MacBook M1 is pretty amazing but not having Virtualbox has been a pain and we are exploring options for our new team. I have mostly worked for companies with actual teams dedicated to providing build tools.
Past attempts to Dockerize all the infrastructure dependencies (e.g. we run our own database and DNS servers) and tying all of that with the build scripts was deemed more effort than its worth so that never quite got going. Maybe its different scratch?
I have tried a bunch of these projects so while interesting I'm not sure about building workflows around them:
https://mac.getutm.app/
https://github.com/KhaosT/SimpleVM
https://github.com/danielrfry/toyvm
https://github.com/evansm7/vftool
https://multipass.run/install
https://github.com/features/codespaces
https://medium.com/@paulrobu/how-to-run-ubuntu-22-04-vms-on-apple-m1-arm-based-systems-for-free-c8283fb38309
I know architecture differences will cause pain, hell here we are already. I think everyone will benefit from crowd sourcing experiences and hopefully we can save each other chunks of life thrown away.
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What tool do you use to {edit code, build artifacts, run unit tests, deploy artifacts, run e2e tests}
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How do you like developing on an M1 Mac so far?
VMs work. Qemu is working with patches. You have to build it though. None of the releases seems to be patched yet. There is an early preview of Parallels. Both Linux and Windows on Arm are working. Docker has an early release as well. There are few prebuilt projects on Github too:
https://github.com/evansm7/vftool
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Show HN: Vmctl/Vmcli – Easily Run Linux VMs on M1 Macs
I needed to add a persistent network configuration (which I didn't really figure out -- I was okay with starting an interface manually. I also had to re-generate the SSH host keys for some reason.
In order to do these, I loaded the image in initramfs (basically started the VM w/o specifying root=/dev/vda as the command line argument). Then I mounted /dev/vda and chroot'd to it. Then I could change the root password to something that I knew, and setup the keys / config.
I also was able to use the Ubuntu kernel/initrd to load a Debian 10 image as well. The default Debian 10 cloud image doesn't include the necessary kernel modules (virtio_console might be the only one necessary to add).
I've spent a few days testing out this and the linked vftool (https://github.com/evansm7/vftool) to try to get a Debian VM. It's not an easy thing, but it did eventually work. I ended up corrupting the disk image though, so that wasn't fun.
In order to do this on my Mac w/o needing a Linux machine, I installed ext4fuse so that I could mount raw disk images and mount partitions. I followed instructions from this GH issue, which was a great help.
https://github.com/evansm7/vftool/issues/2
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Apple M1 Chip
Late to the party here, but I have an M1 MacBook Air--other commenters mentioned marcan's WIP linux port which if fully realized, I'd expect someone would come up with a way to boot arch on it. Today, Apple provides a couple different APIs for accelerated aarch64 virtualization, and I've gotten several distros working using this tool (which uses the Virtualization.Framework). It's FAST too--haven't run benchmarks or anything but compiling code seems as snappy as my i9-9900k desktop
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Connection Refused M1 Docker Preview
I'm having the exact same problem. 192.168.64.0/24 seems to be the address space that macOS's virtualization framework uses. (At least, vftool spins up VMs using the same space.)
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Linux As Vm On M1 Possible
Heres the best guide so far, includes image download links and such: https://github.com/evansm7/vftool/issues/2#issuecomment-735455161
What are some alternatives?
gibMacOS - Py2/py3 script that can download macOS components direct from Apple
UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
erase-install - A script that automates downloading macOS installers, and optionally erasing or upgrading macOS in a single process. Watch the video!
SimpleVM - Sample code for Virtualization framework
fetch-installer-pkg - A tool to download the a pkg installer for the Install macOS Big Sur app from Apple's softwareupdate servers
ACVM - GUI frontend for qemu for Apple Silicon based Macs
macadmin-scripts - Scripts of possible interest to macOS admins
vmcli - A set of utilities (vmcli + vmctl) for macOS Virtualization.framework
Z390-Hackintosh-Joost - Joost's EFI for Hackintosh on Z390 Designare, i7, RX 6800 XT, 32GB RAM and Fenvi T919
macpine - Lightweight Linux VMs on MacOS
DownloadFullInstaller - macOS application written in SwiftUI that downloads installer pkgs for the Install macOS Big Sur application.
auto-unlocker - Unlocker for VMWare macOS