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Lightweight Linux VMs on MacOS

13 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 5 stories, 8 comments · first 2022-06-10 · latest 2024-05-28

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  1. For MacOS, Macpine has a similar premise: https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine With a view to use lightweight Linux VMs (alpine) to: * Easily spin up and manage lightweight Alpine Linux environments. * Use tiny VMs to take advantage…
  2. …file sharing; you can also easily run docker inside of it and use docker context to target it. [1] https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine
    comment by dabedee · 2023-07-10 · in Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
  3. It uses almost same mounting tech as colima (9p) Macpine: https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine/blob/71788e9c3c09c... colima: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/blob/7ebcf14a69158afa43b2... So it seems that it has same performance as…
  4. …SWE to interact with, the project seems to just over-complicate an already existing workflow. [1] https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine#motivation
    comment by reversethread · 2022-11-28 · in Lightweight Alpine VMs on macOS
  5. This is part of the bigger Macpine project, which to me is much more interesting than LXD: https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine """ The goal of this project is to enable MacOS users to: Easily spin up and manage lightweight Alpine…
  6. …framework when running native arch VMs in QEMU, for example setting -accel to hfv, seen here: https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine UTM should also support this.
  7. This is also achieved through: 1) https://github.com/lima-vm/lima 2) https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine With a nice CLI included.
    comment by pickleMeTimbers · 2022-09-19 · in macOS Subsystem for Linux
  8. …sorted. Ended up putting together a layer on top of QEMU to run both x86-64 and aarch64 VMs ( https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine ). Have pre-baked VMs with LXD installed inside each instance, with main software builds taking place…