apple virtualization framework

[mgrossu]

Hello,

Since Apple introduced the new features in the Virtualization Framework in Ventura, I was thinking of replacing the podman backend from qemu with Apple's virtualization framework on macOS. So basically when using the command podman machine init, it will create a Linux VM but not with qemu, but with Apple's virtualization framework.

Do you think it will be possible?

I can take charge of it.

My motivation is to use podman instead of Docker Desktop and at the same time, I do not want to use homebrew and qemu. Apple's virtualization framework is a higher-end API and it is possible to run Linux x86_64 binaries inside the Linux VM thanks to Rosetta 2, so the containers can take also the advantage of it.

[Luap99]

This is planned, I am not sure what the current state is but there was already some initial work, #15199
cc @baude

[afbjorklund]

You can use podman with lima, which now has support for Virtualization.framework

It uses Fedora Cloud instead of Fedora CoreOS, but otherwise it's the same thing...