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Been mucking about with various VM tools compatible with M1/M2 Apple Silicon/macOS.

Trying UTM, Tart, and Lima, all have +'s and -'s. My requirement is CLI management/headless, as fast as possible, and ability to SSH in from host via IP or hostname github.com/geerlingguy/ansible

GitHubApple Silicon (arm64) - what should I do with VirtualBox-based examples? · Issue #404 · geerlingguy/ansible-for-devopsBy geerlingguy

@geerlingguy why bother running the VMs locally anymore?

@ironicbadger cloud is terrible, yes even in 2023 :)

Plus if I can't fully replicate a cloud instance of whatever (including CI) bare metal it is not very open and robust/deployable, so I shy away.

@geerlingguy do you consider Proxmox “a cloud”? Because that’s what I meant here. I rarely do any heavy lifting on the arm stuff with virtualization because the tooling doesn’t really do the job well enough.

@ironicbadger ah no, I mean public cloud.

And I use VMs for CI/testing, often on the road. So when I want to build and test stuff that will run on my clusters, I want to do it local.

@geerlingguy but then again you are a raspberry pi enthusiast, so you clearly enjoy doing things with one hand tied behind your back ;)