Developer Tools
SwiftVM
Runs macOS and Linux virtual machines from the menu bar.
FreeOpen sourceFree; macOS 27 or later on Apple silicon.macOS
By SwiftVM
About
SwiftVM keeps your virtual machines in the menu bar, built on Apple's Virtualization framework in Swift. A Linux guest starts from an Ubuntu or Debian cloud image with your user and SSH key already in it, and a macOS guest installs and creates its account with no setup assistant to click through. Each machine is one .swiftvm folder, with suspend and resume, shared folders, port forwarding and a CLI that stays in sync with the app.
- Price
- Free, Free; macOS 27 or later on Apple silicon.
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Platforms
- macOS
- Category
- Developer Tools
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