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vftool
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evansm7 / vftool

vftool

A simple macOS Virtualisation.framework wrapper

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16Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1KGitHub stars
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A simple macOS Virtualisation.framework wrapper

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HN mentions by year16 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-11-26 14:50:23 UTC to 2025-07-26 02:32:28 UTC.

02462020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 4 submissions, 3 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC743
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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motsi·Sep 20, 2022Submission

Ask HN: MacBook M1 development workflow?

The battery life on the MacBook M1 is pretty amazing but not having Virtualbox has been a pain and we are exploring options for our new team. I have mostly worked for companies with actual teams dedicated to providing build tools. Past attempts to Dockerize all the infrastructure dependencies (e.g. we run our own database and DNS servers) and tying all of that with the build scripts was deemed more effort than its worth so that never got off the ground. Maybe its different from scratch? I have tried a bunch of these projects so while interesting I'm not sure about building workflows around them: https://mac.getutm.app/ https://github.com/KhaosT/SimpleVM https://github.com/danielrfry/toyvm https://github.com/evansm7/vftool https://multipass.run/install https://github.com/features/codespaces https://medium.com/@paulrobu/how-to-run-ubuntu-22
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-04-vms-on-apple-m1-arm-based-systems-for-free-c8283fb38309 I know architecture differences will cause pain, hell here we are already. I think everyone will benefit from crowd sourcing experiences and hopefully we can save each other chunks of life thrown away. == What tool do you use to {edit code, build artifacts, run unit tests, deploy artifacts, run e2e tests} Why do you use X? What where you using before switching to X? When did you switch and how much did it cost you in terms of $ licensing and workflow changes? What else did you consider before choosing X? What did you not like about about the alternatives? == 1. I develop primarily in Java for services that get deployed on Linux boxes 2. Sublime Text used to be my default but I begrudgingly accepted IntelliJ in my previous job since we used Java 3. An IntelliJ license was provided by the company so the powers that be handled that side of the equation so I have no $ value. 4. I inherited the previous development setup so not sure what the adoption cost looked like 5. We have scripts that wrap Ant tasks to locally run "integration tests" but so much is mocked out it doesn't match reality so you can't green light anything until you have actually deployed and tested the code in staging 6. We deploy our code to EC2 instances for e2e testing since there are infrastructure services we need as mentioned earlier e.g. the database, memcache etc
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