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Notes on macos virtualization with a focus on running guest OS on Apple M1 Silicon

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MacOS Virtualization

Notes on macos virtualization with a focus on running guest OS on Apple M1 Silicon

Tutorials

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/running_macos_in_a_virtual_machine_on_apple_silicon_macs

macos images

https://mrmacintosh.com/macos-12-monterey-full-installer-database-download-directly-from-apple/

Docker

Docker corp instructions for running AMD64 linux images on M1 macs using Rosetta.
https://docs.docker.com/desktop/mac/install/

Simon Willison's Docker on M1 Tutorial
https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/running-docker-on-remote-m1

Running Macos in a docker container
https://hakin9.org/docker-osx-run-mac-in-a-docker-container/

Running X64 Linux containers via Podman
https://edofic.com/posts/2021-09-12-podman-m1-amd64/

UTM

UTM uses QEMU to run virtual machines (and containers?) on Macos. It can be thought of as a free alternative to Parallels. https://github.com/utmapp/UTM

Reference

The electric Light Company freeware utilities
https://eclecticlight.co/downloads/

The Electric Light Company M1 Macs articles
https://eclecticlight.co/m1-macs/

Investigating sandbox logging
https://ubrigens.com/posts/sandbox_coverage.html

VirtIO documentation
https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.1/csprd01/virtio-v1.1-csprd01.html

Apple Documentation

Hypervisor Documentation
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor

App Sandbox in depth legacy documentation
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Security/Conceptual/AppSandboxDesignGuide/AppSandboxInDepth/AppSandboxInDepth.html

App Sandbox modern documentation
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/app_sandbox

Code Signing Provisioning Profiles
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3125-inside-code-signing-provisioning-profiles

Checking app entitlements
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1798/_index.html

Security landing page https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/

macos / Darwin man pages
https://ss64.com/osx/
https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/

Useful Macos Commands

security - Command line interface to keychains and Security framework
https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/security.1.html

plutil - Property list utility
https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/plutil.1.html

certtool - Create key pairs, certificates and certificate signing requests for use with Keychains
https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/certtool.1.html

codesign - Create and manipulate code signatures
https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/codesign.1.html

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Notes on macos virtualization with a focus on running guest OS on Apple M1 Silicon