GhostVM
macOS containers on Apple Silicon
Details
- External ID
- 47403204
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- GhostVM
- Website domain
- ghostvm.org
- Launched
- March 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4108241082410824
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macos containers on apple silicon
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 954 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #579 of 955 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 136 days after the earliest competitor.
- Calyx · hn · 2026-03-12 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- Dinky · github · 2026-09-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- WonderBox · github · 2026-09-20 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- emu · github · 2026-09-25 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Kakehashi · hn · 2026-08-02 · 255 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- maclator · github · 2026-09-30 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- FluidUse · github · 2026-09-21 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- orchard · github · 2026-09-19 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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