GhostVM
macOS containers on Apple Silicon
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HN · launched Mar 16, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 59%) · 1 view
Niche: os virtualization and vm management software · 61 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -88% · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Virtualizing macOS guests on Apple Silicon requires low-level systems programming against Apple's Hypervisor and Virtualization frameworks, APFS copy-on-write disk internals, and native guest agent drivers.
What it would actually take: Building GhostVM requires deep Swift/Objective-C/C systems programming leveraging Apple's `Virtualization.framework` to spawn and manage lightweight macOS virtual machine instances. The hard engineering pieces involve creating custom VirtIO drivers, bidirectional clipboard/file-sharing Daemons running inside the guest OS, dynamic port-forwarding via network tap interfaces, and APFS snapshot cloning for instant container-like startup times. This requires seasoned macOS systems kernel and virtualization engineers.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2557 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1574 of 2558 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 136 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Dinky · github · 2026-09-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.63
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- Floe · github · 2026-10-03 · 71 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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