vfkit

It's well supported by the architecture. You may be interested in: - Lima - wsl2-like access to a virtual machine https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/README.md - vfkit - CLI creation and management of applehv VMs https://github.com/crc-org/vfkit - podman machine - easily run x86 containers in CoreOs, via the podman CLI https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-machine.1.h...

On the off chance it matters to anyone, brew whines that podman requires macOS 13.x due to https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/22121 but that's only for $(podman machine start) support, which relies on https://github.com/crc-org/vfkit/issues/37 If you already have colima lying around, that means you have lima and lima ships with both podman and podman-rootful templates: limactl create --name=proot template://podman-rootful --vm-type=qemu --cpus=4 --memory 4 --disk 20 # it will emit the instructions at the end, but for context podman system connection add lima-proot "unix:///$HOME/.lima/proot/sock/podman.sock" podman system connection default lima-proot podman version # <-- off to the races

The current driver lives at http://github.com/crc-org/vfkit and is being tested in crc. It would be ideal if you put the request out via an issue https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/new/choose I will follow-up on this. Community feedback will lead to a demand/request as it speaks louder

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.