vftool-rosetta
A simple macOS Virtualisation.framework wrapper with Rosetta (by JamesDunne)
vmcli
A set of utilities (vmcli + vmctl) for macOS Virtualization.framework (by gyf304)
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MIT License | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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vftool-rosetta
Posts with mentions or reviews of vftool-rosetta.
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Apple Virtualization Framework
Right. I forked it [0] myself and added direct Rosetta support which was trivial to do according to the Apple documentation. I just had to convert Swift example code to Obj-C.
Have had a PR open for several months with no attention from the author. I almost forgot about it until seeing this HN headline.
[0] https://github.com/JamesDunne/vftool-rosetta
vmcli
Posts with mentions or reviews of vmcli.
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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Apple Virtualization Framework
This is higher-level than the Hypervisor framework; this Virtualization framework providers an entire VM with virtio peripherals including a display.
https://github.com/lima-vm/lima can use Virtualization framework for creating VMs, there is also https://github.com/gyf304/vmcli as a very simple CLI utility for running VMs, though it's not very actively maintained.
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Is there anything like WSL2 in Mac?
In that case, VMs are probably the best options. If performance is not the issue, you can look at UTM (https://docs.getutm.app/installation/macos/). Free from GitHub and $10 from App Store. Parallels is a good option as well. Or something simple as https://github.com/gyf304/vmcli from CLI.
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Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta
Virtualization.framework is the hypervisor itself, you only need simple tool to launch it. You probably could just copy-paste provided code into eg. https://github.com/gyf304/vmcli. However macOS 13 beta seems to be only available for registered developers.
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M1 For Development 1 month later
Use https://github.com/gyf304/vmcli and install docker on Ubuntu ARM. But I am not sure, probably qemu emulation is not going to be here, so you will have to run only ARM images. And for this option you can also install k8s.
- Show HN: Vmctl/Vmcli – Easily Run Linux VMs on M1 Macs
What are some alternatives?
When comparing vftool-rosetta and vmcli you can also consider the following projects:
colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
vftool - A simple macOS Virtualisation.framework wrapper