Cheetah: A Lightweight Virtual Machine Manager for macOS

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  • tart

    macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon to use in CI and other automations

    • the inability to log in with an Apple ID in a MacOS VM is a decision made by Apple. you can certainly sign without logging in, but I don't think you can submit to the store in a VM.

    you can see how they build tart here, including signing and entitlements and so on: https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/blob/main/.cirrus.yml

  • RunLinuxVM

    Modified version of https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/running_gui_linux_in_a_virtual_machine_on_a_mac

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