Lightweight Linux VMs on macOS • Hacker News Board

Post by pickleMeTimbers » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 8:51 AM UTC

After a positive reception by the HN community five months ago [1, 2], this small project has reached a 1.0 milestone with:

* Encrypted instance import/export using age file encryption

* Secure credential configurations

* Instance autostart

* Multiple quality-of-life improvements, including instance tagging

The goal of this project is to enable MacOS users to:

* Easily spin up and manage lightweight Alpine Linux environments.

* Use tiny VMs to take advantage of containerisation technologies, including LXD and Docker.

* Build and test software on x86_64 and aarch64 systems.

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