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Show HN: Lume – OS lightweight CLI for MacOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon


A lightweight CLI and local API server to create, run and manage macOS and Linux virtual machines (VMs) natively on Apple Silicon. - trycua/lume

lume is a lightweight Command Line Interface and local API server to create, run and manage macOS and Linux virtual machines (VMs) with near-native performance on Apple Silicon, using Apple's Virtualization.Framework. You can also download the lume.pkg.tar.gz archive from the latest release, extract it, and install the package manually. ImageTagDescriptionSize macos-sequoia-vanillalatest, 15.2 macOS Sonoma 15.240GB macos-sequoia-xcodelatest, 15.2 macOS Sonoma 15.2 with Xcode command line tools50GB ubuntu-noble-vanillalatest, 24.04.1 Ubuntu Server for ARM 24.04.1 LTS with Ubuntu Desktop20GBFor additional disk space, resize the VM disk after pulling the image using the lume set <name> --disk-size <size> command.

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