The Beefcake macOS Virtualization lifecycle manager

This project uses vfkit.

beef adds some syntactic sugar on top of managing the lifecycle of VMs running through vfkit such as:

1. run, start, stop, rm, status, ls, get and set commands
2. cloning and extending source raw image files
3. state saving for re-launching an existing VM by name
4. abstraction of complex arguments required for configuring VMs
5. abstraction of running Linux and macOS VMs

$ curl -LO https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/42/Cloud/aarch64/images/Fedora-Cloud-Base-AmazonEC2-42-1.1.aarch64.raw.xz
$ unxz -T0 Fedora-Cloud-Base-AmazonEC2-42-1.1.aarch64.raw.xz
$ beef run fedora42 Fedora-Cloud-Base-AmazonEC2-42-1.1.aarch64.raw
{
    "canHardStop": true,
    "canPause": true,
    "canResume": false,
    "canStart": false,
    "canStop": true,
    "state": "VirtualMachineStateRunning",
    "ipAddress": "192.168.64.56",
    "pid": 96456
}

This example assumes that you have a VM.bundle. This can be created using https://github.com/Code-Hex/vz/tree/main/example/macOS.

Note: macOS requires running with --gui

$ beef run --gui macos VM.bundle