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macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon to use in CI and other automations

18 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 6 stories, 12 comments · first 2022-05-10 · latest 2026-09-27

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  1. …can. It is not that hard. It ain't easy. But it is not that hard. At. All. In fact, openai have https://github.com/openai/tart that can easily be adapted to more secure scenarios than whatever the f they are using atm.
    comment by 28304283409234 · 2026-09-27 · in An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
  2. …up across Apple Silicon VM frontends for a while e.g. Tart tracked MPS/GPU support back in 2023: - https://github.com/openai/tart/issues/501 - https://github.com/openai/tart/issues/1032 UTM also has related cases where apps detect the…
    comment by frabonacci · 2026-08-11 · in Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp
  3. What are your plans for tart licensing going forward? https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/blob/main/LICENSE https://tart.run/licensing/
    comment by js2 · 2026-04-11 · in Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
  4. …a worse interface to lume, but maybe I’m not getting a use case for this. Also, any thoughts on https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart ? (alas, not open source)
    comment by notpushkin · 2025-05-14 · in Show HN: Lumier – Run macOS VMs in a Docker
  5. …store in a VM. you can see how they build tart here, including signing and entitlements and so on: https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/blob/main/.cirrus.yml
    comment by naikrovek · 2023-08-31 · in Cheetah: A Lightweight Virtual Machine Manager for macOS
  6. https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart or brew install tart (this gets you the last open source version)
    comment by naikrovek · 2023-08-31 · in Cheetah: A Lightweight Virtual Machine Manager for macOS
  7. …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…
    comment by pxc · 2023-08-20 · in Run a macOS VM on Apple Silicon from a double-click with Vimy
  8. …and testing [2]. [1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/21/scaleway_arm64_cloud_... [2] https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/ [3] https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSVentura.pdf#page=2 (2B iii)
    comment by Confiks · 2023-07-09 · in Apple M1 Mac as a Service
  9. github.com/cirruslabs/tart is a command-line tool which makes this whole VM thing very easy on MacOS starting with Ventura.
    comment by naikrovek · 2022-10-11 · in VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Support, New Direct3D Acceleration
  10. github.com/cirruslabs/tart is what I use, because it is a command-line tool. also, death to oracle.
    comment by naikrovek · 2022-10-09 · in Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac
  11. github.com/cirruslabs/tart does this for macos VMs. you push them to and pull them from OCI registries.
    comment by naikrovek · 2022-09-09 · in My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
  12. …supports Linux. I've created a feature request. Feel free to comment with your use case for Linux. https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/issues/62
    comment by fkorotkov · 2022-05-10 · in Tart – open-source virtualization for Apple Silicon