crc

The virtiofs implementation we use is the native one provided by Apple according to our virtiofs spec. https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/ You can try running https://github.com/crc-org/crc with the podman preset (!) to test it. It would not be exactly the same how podman machine will use it eventually, but might help to give an idea of performance or issues we can improve on. We have seen a lot of users being more than content as it also works in a vpn environment. Note that the CRC tool primarily aims at OpenShift deployment... This is a different preset (resource intensive). Only available as an installer with our tray (sorry about this). The driver we use is https://github.com/crc-org/vfkit and I am sure Christophe could share a method to just run the VM with our driver. HMU by email if you prefer.

It used too many resources for my computer. It took about 10 minutes to start a cluster and once the cluster was up and running my computer had a hard time performing any additional tasks - like having IDE open and compiling source code. In comparison k3s takes seconds to start a cluster. Kind takes about a minute. Neither will consume resources to a point where my computer becomes unusable. I reported my experience to Red Hat and they replied that it was to be expected. EDIT: Found the issue https://github.com/code-ready/crc/issues/617.

Not Redhat provided, but there's Minishift: https://github.com/minishift/minishift and Codeready Containers: https://github.com/code-ready/crc