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Seems like the new ASIF sparse image format will solve a lot of this, combined with their new containerization framework https://eclecticlight.co/2025/06/12/ma

• jitl 1y ago
  Copying data into and out of a disk image is probably going to be much slower and involve just as many syscalls if not more compared to setting up a “symlink forest”. As far as I can tell, the containerization framework seems like it’s for running Linux microvms, and doesn’t seem applicable to people trying to do macOS builds. I mean, if you just want to run Bazel in a Linux VM sure it will do fine, but you can already run Bazel in a Linux vm on your Mac with Docker.app. Maybe I missed something with the containerization docs but all I saw was EXT4, OCI Linux images, etc. no Mac thingies.
  • tough 1y ago
    No idea if this will be of any help but with a little research found this on the docs https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/running-macos-in-a-virtual-machine-on-apple-silicon https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run... there's also osx-kvm (non-apple) https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM