packer-plugin-tart VS Vagrant

There is Packer Tart Plugin which helps automate VM creation and can optimize VM's disk.

If you want an all around easy to use tool that can manager containers (create on the fly, delete when unnecessary, etc.) look into vagrant. There are also options like xen and virtualbox but they are not so lightweight. All of them are in ubuntu repositories.

Similarly, download and install Vagrant by following the instructions provided on the official Vagrant documentation.

This looks awesome. The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon right now is a bit painful. If this really does provide semi performant x86 Linux emulation and there was a Vagrant Provider plugin then this would easily be the defacto tool for dev / testing VMs on macOS.

https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/tree/main/plugins/provi...

Same probably applies to hashicorp Packer.

Every tool I have tried like Parallels and VMWare Fusion 13 Pro says that nested virtualization for windows is not possible. If this is possible with Orb at some point i’d pay for it.

I often want to test a Windows VM with Docker installed into WSL2 and this becomes a nightmare now on Apple Silicon.

Also I wonder what possibility this opens up for an improved toolchain to develop stuff like Asahi Linux by bridging macOS native tooling and Linux emulation to write and test code without rebooting or using two machines.

Amazing work. Why can’t Apple, Vzmware, parallels or someone else do all of this when a single developer can. Sad.

Vagrant or Multipass would be my first guesses. There isn't anything else out there that is going to orchestrate VMs the way you want.

You can give Vagrant a go (https://www.vagrantup.com). It is pretty handy for spinning up/down development VMs without even leaving your IDE.

Vagrant is a popular tool for launching virtual machines on your local desktop. https://www.vagrantup.com/

And, for the record, if you ever need to do something cross falls down on and Docker isn't suited to (eg. some of my sites are on a shared webhost that uses FreeBSD), the simplest way I've found is to use Vagrant with a script like this to run inside Vagrant to copy the project in, trigger a build, and then copy the binary out.

Have a look at vagrant to spin up VMs quickly, then use 'em to do stuff like configure a salt environment - you could incorporate cron jobs here ;)

I was building a new version of YugabyteDB vagrant box with packer and virtual box. Because we (Yugabyte) have a new preview release out.