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notpushkinlast Wednesday at 6:06 PM1 replyview on HN

There’s no mention of Tart in there, but I’ve looked into Lume CLI some more and it seems it’s basically a superset of Tart in functionality. (And both use container registries as the VM image store, neat!)

> aligning to a container interface here seems a natural step for us

It might be tricky since you do have to escape from the container to run the actual VM, though I guess you can figure something out here. I still think it’s the wrong layer to build your abstractions upon, but let’s see how it goes! Just don’t discontinue the CLI, it’s really cool :-)


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frabonacciyesterday at 1:28 AM

Thank you for the support! One idea we’ve been exploring is reusing the same Apple VZ backend that Docker itself uses to run a nested macOS VM from inside the container. That would avoid the need for a background service on the host, but it would require patching parts of Docker and only work on M3+ chips, since earlier Apple Silicon doesn’t support nested virtualization