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Lightweight Linux VMs on macOS
- pickleMeTimbers 3y agoAfter 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. --- References 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33762657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33762657 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33769274 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33769274