UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS

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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...

  • lima

    Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

    • I'd say Lima and Colima should be enough for most use cases:

    https://lima-vm.io/

    https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

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  • UTM-Snapshot-Manager

    A companion app for UTM to manage snapshots for existing virtual machines.

  • orbstack

    Fast, light, simple Docker containers & Linux machines for macOS

    • There's a feature request for Vagrant support: https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/105

    Hasn't been that common of a request, and honestly I've never used Vagrant so not familiar with its benefits. People are already using OrbStack machines and its "orb" command to build dev envs with setup scripts, and cloud-init support will also be added: https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/38

    I think cloud-init will be more useful since it's already widely used for setting up servers, whereas Vagrant is only for dev envs, but correct me if I'm wrong.

  • colima

    Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

    • I'd say Lima and Colima should be enough for most use cases:

    https://lima-vm.io/

    https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

  • Vagrant

    Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

    • There's an open issue [1]. A scripting interface has since been added [2], and updated [3], so there's progress.

    [1] https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/12518

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