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microvm.nix is a framework to run NixOS based micro VMs on various platforms. In particular, it can use vfkit to run micro VMs on macOS that use the macOS virtualization framework to provide a more performant VM than QEMU. microvm.nix works well but the documentation is a bit lacking. I had to figure out some gotchas while setting this up on my MacBook Pro M4, so I decided to write this note. This tutorial requires Nix and Nix Darwin to be installed on the macOS machine. To build a micro VM, we…
