Orbstack
I thought https://orbstack.dev/ is what people are using these days instead of UTM.
Am I mistaken?
I thought https://orbstack.dev/ is what people are using these days instead of UTM.
Am I mistaken?
Speaking for myself, to virtualize arm64 *nix on an M1/M2 Mac, UTM has worked whereas other alternatives didn't work for me (such as VirtualBox). I haven't put my hands on the glowing orb yet; I'm sure it will be mesmerizing and tell me to do things like watch Inception (inside a VM) ^ 4.
And Orbstack has a comparison chart with UTM: https://docs.orbstack.dev/compare/utm
The arm release is a "whoops it got out before it's ready" moment, and the current status apart from being buggy and slow, is that it only runs 32bit x86 VMs on arm.
Also worth mentioning that OrbStack's philosophy to be more like WSL (designed for integration first and foremost, not isolation) than UTM (full virtual machines, isolated from the host).
It's a proprietary container interface that - as far as I could tell - runs on the outdated and unsupported "docker machine"[1]. An alternative would be to run a more recent container runtime of your choosing in a VM through UTM which works beautifully.
I did intentionally delay the update from 23.x to 24.x by a few weeks while I waited for things to settle, because last time I updated from 22.x to 23.x shortly after release and some users were hit by bugs that hadn't been ironed out yet.
Edit: Noticed that you edited your comment to say that it uses "Docker Machine" instead. That's not the case. OrbStack uses a nested architecture where it runs Linux machines [1]. There's a special machine called "docker" that runs a copy of the Docker Engine, but that's not related to the old Docker Machine project.
My confusion must have come from mixed terminology being used by others than yourself on GitHub and in articles about your project I skimmed through when looking into it.
The project might still not be for me regardless of its underpinning, although I will have to say that it's immediately obvious that you persue high standards and care a great deal about delivering a quality product.