lima

Lima (1) is a project that packages Linux distros for MacOS and executes them via qemu in the backend. Maybe you could solve your problem by launching one of their vms and inspecting the command line it generates. You might find an option you were missing. (1) https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

It looks like this might be the issue: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/334 I wouldn't think that qemu would be associated with a display in the required way here, but maybe being launched by a GUI app that's not a terminal emulator is somehow enough? Related bug affecting Lima (blocked by this one): https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/2 This is the first I'd heard of 'app nap'. I guess macOS does iOS things and actively freezes apps it thinks are idle. Maybe it has to do this to get passable battery life during sleep, now that Macs don't actually sleep (S3) anymore?

"colima" and it's underlying project "lima" are a pretty quick way to get started. Extremely quick to stand up a single node cluster, or many types of VMs in lima. https://github.com/lima-vm/lima limactl start template://k3s https://github.com/abiosoft/colima colima start --kubernetes The tools are a bit rough around the edges if you try and do something outside of the happy path with them. Nothing bad as such, just the user experience isn't as seamless when say running the VMs on custom, addressable host networks or managing vms with launchd.

Tart is also very cool. It's not F/OSS but it is source-available and its license is liberal about non-commercial and small-scale commercial use: https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart The very cool thing about Tart is how it uses OCI for OS images, so you can use your existing image registry infrastructure to host and pull down OS images. Cilicon is a compatible F/OSS clone that currently only supports a subset of that functionality: https://github.com/traderepublic/Cilicon These are more CI-oriented but I like how that makes it easy to manage state with them. If you're focused on Linux VMs and maybe not on GUI stuff (although I'm sure you can make that work), Lima seems to be the go-to in the user 'community', as it were: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima If you use ARM guests on Apple Silicon, you should get good perf just like with stuff in

Lima wraps QEMU in a simple CLI, with neat features for container users, such as filesystem sharing and automatic localhost port forwarding, as well as DNS and proxy propagation for enterprise networks. Rancher Desktop wraps Lima with k3s integration and GUI. * Github: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima * Talks: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/docs/talks.md Also see * sshocker: ssh + reverse sshfs + port forwarder, in Docker-like CLI (predecessor of Lima), https://github.com/lima-vm/sshocker * Lima-GUI: https://github.com/afbjorklund/lima-gui * Colima: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

It's even possible to run FreeBSD too[1] [1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/pull/1509

Oh sick! According to some of their GitHub issues (https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/1202) they do setup Rosetta. I'll have to check this out then!

It is an option in Lima, I’m not sure if they handle setting up Rosetta yet though: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/docs/vmtype.md

This is higher-level than the Hypervisor framework; this Virtualization framework providers an entire VM with virtio peripherals including a display. https://github.com/lima-vm/lima can use Virtualization framework for creating VMs, there is also https://github.com/gyf304/vmcli as a very simple CLI utility for running VMs, though it's not very actively maintained.

Have you tried lima? https://lima-vm.io/ https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

WSL2 is no longer using the NT kernel. It’s a full blown VM now that uses Plan 9 9p for file system interop. The new Docker for Windows uses an additional WSL2 distro instance, so it’s not very different from Docker for Mac. Windows Docker -> Mac Docker WSL2/Hyper-V -> Hypervisor.framework/Virtualization.framework 9p -> gRPC-fuse/virtiofs They’re the same setup really. If you want something like WSL2, I would recommend Lima (https://github.com/lima-vm/lima). Edit: Well, they’re not completely the same. WSL2 is using virtualization, but the WSL instances are actually using a shared kernel packaged with WSL (https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/blob/mattw-wsl2-explain...). So it’s a bit more optimized than standard MacOS Virtualization due to some optimizations.

Have you seen https://github.com/lima-vm/lima ? Runs linux VMs and can run x64 via quemu or even using rosetta2 & apple virtualization framework

Haven't worked much on it, as I have an Intel, but I'd say the best two options you have now are Lima and UTM: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima https://mac.getutm.app/ I checked Virtualbox this week and it's also beta/testing for M1

Lima[0] is also great if you just need command-line Linux. [0]: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

When you're right, you're right. https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/examples/default... 4gig default ~$ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3907 304 1446 1 2156 3431 Swap: 0 Thank you.