quickemu

quickemu[0] is sort of amazing for these type of use cases actually. I feel like I could use it more for this type of stuff. [0]: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

quickemu [1] is good at running macOS VMs. 1: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

there is quickemu which can install mac vm on linux (or any other host) rather quickly, what are your thoughts on it (I am an absolute quickemu shill because I love that software) https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu [ Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines ]

I really like the product created by fly.io's https://sprites.dev/ for AI's sandboxes effectively. I feel like its really apt here (not sponsored lmao wish I was) Oh btw if someone wants to run servers via qemu, I highly recommend quickemu. It provides default ssh access,sshfs, vnc,spice and all such ports to just your local device of course and also allows one to install debian or any distro (out of many many distros) using quickget. Its really intuitive for what its worth, definitely worth a try https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu I personally really like zed with ssh open remote. I can always open up terminals in it and use claude code or opencode or any and they provide AI as well (I dont use much AI this way, I make simple scripts for myself so I just copy paste for free from the websites) but I can recommend zed for what it

It's fixed in https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/pull/1640 but they haven't cut a release since Dec 2024.

A lot of the world has moved on from virtualbox to primarily qemu+kvm and to some extent xen. Usually with some higher-level tool on top. Some of these are packages you can run on your existing OS and some are distributions with hypervisor for people who use VMs as part of their primary workflows. If you just want quick-and-easy one-off Windows VM and move on, check out quickemu. Libvirt and virt-manager https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Libvirt Quickemu https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu Proxmox VE https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve QubesOS https://qubes-os.org Whonix https://whonix.org XCP-ng https://xcp-ng.org/ You can also get some level of isolation by containers (lxc, docker, podman).

You can also check out quickemu. Uses qemu rather than virtualbox. https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

If you use it rarely, I can high recommend the excellent QuickEMU [0] Any VM is just a `quickget ubuntu 24.04` and `quickemu --vm ubuntu-24.04.conf` away. The conf file is just a yaml that is very readable and can give you more cores/ram/disk easily. Just run `quickget` to get a list of OS's to download. [0] https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

quickemu also does the job, not just for macOS but many operating systems "Quickly create and run highly optimised desktop virtual machines for Linux, macOS and Windows; with just two commands. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu will figure out the best way to do it for you." https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

Tl;Dr use quickemu: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu There's also quickgui to help with launching VMs: https://github.com/quickgui/quickgui (I've been using it for occasional errands that necessitate running windows)

Just a security reminder from the last time this got posted[1] This tool downloads random files from the internet, and check their checksum against other random files from the internet. [2] This is not the best security practice. (The right security practice would be to have the gpg keys of the distro developers committed in the repository, and checking all files against these keys) This is not downplaying the effort which was put in this project to find the correct flags to pass to QEMU to boot all of these. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797129 [2] https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/blob/0c8e1a5205...