SwiftVM

Native macOS app for running virtual machines, built with Swift and Apple's Virtualization framework.

Supported guests

• Mac
• Linux
• Windows (Coming soon)

Top level features

• macOS guests that install and set themselves up
• Linux guests from a cloud image, ready in seconds
• Linux desktops that install themselves: GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce, Cinnamon
• Setup scripts for everything else a new machine needs, in one file you write
• ssh from your Mac
• Snapshots and instant duplicates
• Suspend and resume
• Shared folders and clipboard
• Port forwarding
• USB devices and disk images
• Lives in the menu bar
• swiftvm command-line tool

Install

SwiftVM runs on macOS 27 or newer, on Apple silicon.

brew install --cask swiftvm-app/tap/swiftvm

Or download the DMG from the latest release.

See Getting started for your first virtual machine, the swiftvm command, and beta builds.

Documentation

See docs.

License

Apache-2.0