1VM
Run Linux, Windows, and macOS on your Mac
Details
- External ID
- 1258841
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- 1VM
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Software Engineering, Developer Tools
- Fetched at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
A local virtual machine desktop for macOS with QEMU built in. Download official Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, or Kali installers, import a ready-to-run 1vm machine, or boot Windows 11 and macOS guests. Every system gets its own window; machines live in ~/1vm and never leave your Mac.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- virtual machine runner for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Bundling, configuring, and maintaining a high-performance local virtualization hypervisor wrapper (QEMU / Hypervisor.framework) on macOS Apple Silicon with multi-OS guest support, hardware acceleration, and seamless display/clipboard integration requires deep low-level systems programming.
What it would actually take: Building a performant macOS VM desktop requires Swift/Objective-C interfacing directly with Apple's Hypervisor.framework or Virtualization.framework, alongside patched builds of QEMU. Developers must manage SPICE/VNC guest display pipelines, shared clipboard/folder drivers (virtiofs / spice-vdagent), and complex CPU architecture emulation. This requires specialized systems engineering expertise in operating systems, virtualization primitives, and macOS native low-level APIs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 212 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #142 of 213 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
- Windows 11 ARM64 on M1 Mac, not in a VM · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Lume 0.2 · hn · 2026-01-18 · 154 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS · hn · 2026-02-22 · 213 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- UVM · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- The Virtual OS Museum · ph · 2026-06-08 · 196 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Microterm runs Linux VM in any browser tab via WASM, RISCV64 emulation · hn · 2026-02-22 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Try Omarchy for Windows · hn · 2026-09-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- machine0 · hn · 2026-06-15 · 96 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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- No other launches for this product.
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