Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs

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  • UTM

    Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

  • This is maybe what UTM uses in the latest releases to virtualize macOS on ARM64? Works very well for me so far. https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/releases

  • virtual-environments

    Discontinued GitHub Actions runner images [Moved to: https://github.com/actions/runner-images]

  • Is this recent? This looks like a game changer for the rentable mac instance business if there's some movement in the licensing landscape.

    I was watching the github actions launch issue around macOS to see how they would handle the licensing issue[1]. In the end GH/MS didn't comment due to some "NDA" -- would be easy to state if they went the license route so...

    [0]: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1814

    [1]: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2604

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  • VirtualApple

    Work with macOS VMs using Virtualization

  • Self promotion, but I guess you’re specifically asking for it so I hope you’ll let it slide: https://github.com/saagarjha/VirtualApple. I’ve been using it for development so it’s “actively maintained” in the sense that if it breaks I’ll go fix it because I need it to work :P

  • colima

    Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

  • lima

    Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

  • macos-virtualbox

    Discontinued Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS

  • Something like that?

    https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox

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