KubeSilicon Lets Developers Run Linux VMs on Apple Silicon Macs via Kubernetes
KubeVirt cannot run on Apple Silicon Macs because it depends on KVM, which macOS lacks. The author, who maintains the private cloud operator VirtFoundry, built KubeSilicon to fill that gap for local development. Users declare a SiliconVM object in a local cluster, and a daemon running on the Mac boots a Linux ARM64 guest using Apple's Virtualization.framework. Pods in the cluster can then reach the VM by IP or DNS name, and the author reports VMs reaching Running in about six seconds once the image is cached. The project is validated only on kind with Docker Desktop and is a separate API from KubeVirt, aimed at laptop use rather than production Linux servers.
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