beringresearch/macpine

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Macpine is a Go-based CLI tool for creating and managing lightweight Alpine Linux virtual machines on macOS using QEMU. It supports aarch64 and x86_64 emulation with port forwarding, file sharing, and bridged networking.

Use cases

• spin up lightweight linux vms on my mac
• run docker or incus inside a tiny vm on macos
• test software on x86_64 from an arm mac
• create alpine vm with custom cpu ram and disk
• ssh into a disposable linux dev environment
• emulate aarch64 and x86_64 on apple silicon

When to choose

• you want fast, minimal Linux VMs on macOS without heavy virtualization UIs
• you need cross-architecture (aarch64/x86_64) testing on Apple Silicon
• you want a scriptable CLI for VM lifecycle management

When to avoid

• you need full GUI desktop VMs or Windows guests
• you are on Linux or Windows rather than macOS
• you prefer container-only workflows without VMs

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli developer-tools deployment developer-tools cli go qemu alpine-linux lightweight-vms arm64-emulation docker-host virtualization command-line devops containers macos

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