A utility to get up and running with MacOS's Virtualization.Framework in 5 minutes.
You need python3 installed, either install it via Brew or Command Line Tools
pip install macos-virtOr within a virtualenv to be cleaner:
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install macos-virt- macOS Monterey (12.3+)
- Intel or Arm Mac.
⚠️ This package contains a swift binary called macos-virt-runner. It is not signed. An attempt is made to sign it using your Mac's inbuilt cert, if this causes you any problems open an issue.
⚠️ This is alpha software. Please don't run your production DB on this.
- Quickstart seamless setup, 5 minutes until your VM is ready to use.
- Any prerequisite kernels/initrds/root filesystems are downloaded automatically.
- Selection of VM profiles (all based on ubuntu for now)
- Ability to copy files to/from the VM
- Uses latest kernel in your VM to boot - Kernel updates are applied.
- Wake from Suspend notification to keep VM time in sync
- Mount Host directories to the VM using sshfs (Native Virtualization.Framework implementation seems unreliable)
- Shell Completion
- Less than 1MB in size (slightly more with dependencies)
- MacOS guests
- Memory Ballooning
- VM Suspend/Resume
- Any Graphical Desktops
Usage: macos-virt [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Options:
--install-completion [bash|zsh|fish|powershell|pwsh]
Install completion for the specified shell.
--show-completion [bash|zsh|fish|powershell|pwsh]
Show completion for the specified shell, to
copy it or customize the installation.
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
cp Copy a file to/from a running VM, macos-virt cp default...
create Create a new VM
ls List all VMs
mount Mount a local directory into the VM
profiles Describe profiles that are available
rm Delete a stopped VM
shell Access a shell to a running VM
start Start an already created VM
status Get high level status of a running VM
stop Stop a running VM
umount Unmount a directory in the VM
update Update memory or CPU on a stopped VM
version Show Version information
(venv) ➜ macos-virt git:(main) ✗ macos-virt create --name=default --profile=ubuntu-20.04
Creating Boot image... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 0:00:00
Expanding Root Image... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 0:00:00
🥚 VM has been created
🐣 VM has made first contact
🐥 Initialization complete
Uptime 66 seconds
CPU Count 1
CPU Usage 53.3%
Process Count 101
Memory Usage 17.9%
Root Filesystem Usage 37.5%
Network Addresses [['192.168.64.31', '255.255.255.0']]
(venv) ➜ macos-virt git:(main) ✗ macos-virt shell default
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.64.31' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-100-generic x86_64)
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com
* Management: https://landscape.canonical.com
* Support: https://ubuntu.com/advantage
System information as of Thu Mar 24 16:11:25 UTC 2022
System load: 0.63
Usage of /: 37.6% of 4.70GB
Memory usage: 15%
Swap usage: 0%
Processes: 108
Users logged in: 0
IPv4 address for enp0s1: 192.168.64.31
IPv6 address for enp0s1: fd32:490d:5ffc:3690:5054:ff:fe6d:5522
0 updates can be applied immediately.
*** System restart required ***
The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.
macos-virt@ubuntu:~$ sudo poweroff
macos-virt git:(main) ✗ macos-virt start default
💾 Booting with Kernel vmlinuz-5.4.0-105-generic and Ramdisk initrd.img-5.4.0-105-generic from Boot volume
/Users/dmarkey/src/macos-virt/macos_virt/macos_virt_runner/macos_virt_runner: replacing existing signature
🥚 VM has been created
🐣 VM has made first contact
🐥 Initialization complete
Uptime 12 seconds
CPU Count 1
CPU Usage 89.6%
Process Count 95
Memory Usage 15.4%
Root Filesystem Usage 37.6%
Network Addresses [['192.168.64.31', '255.255.255.0']]
(venv) ➜ macos-virt git:(main) ✗ macos-virt shell default
Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-105-generic x86_64)
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com
* Management: https://landscape.canonical.com
* Support: https://ubuntu.com/advantage
System information as of Thu Mar 24 16:13:18 UTC 2022
System load: 0.57
Usage of /: 37.5% of 4.70GB
Memory usage: 10%
Swap usage: 0%
Processes: 100
Users logged in: 0
IPv4 address for enp0s1: 192.168.64.31
IPv6 address for enp0s1: fd32:490d:5ffc:3690:5054:ff:fe6d:5522
0 updates can be applied immediately.
Last login: Thu Mar 24 16:11:26 2022 from 192.168.64.1
macos-virt@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 5.4.0-105-generic #119-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 7 18:49:24 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
| Profile Name | Description |
|---|---|
| ubuntu-20.04(default) | Ubuntu 20.04 Server Cloud Image |
| ubuntu-21.04 | Ubuntu 21.04 Server Cloud Image |
| ubuntu-21.10 | Ubuntu 21.10 Server Cloud Image |
| ubuntu-20.04-k3s | Ubuntu 20.04 Server Cloud Image with K3S and Docker (Qemu emulation included) |
| ubuntu-22.04 | Ubuntu 21.10 Server Cloud Image |
| ubuntu-22.04-k3s | Ubuntu 22.04 Server Cloud Image with K3S and Docker (Qemu emulation included) |
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