Show HN: Virtual machines that live in your menu bar [macOS 27]

Category: infrastructure

Tags: virtualization, macos, menu-bar, automation, apple-silicon

Score: 7.8/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 9, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

SwiftVM is a native macOS application that lets you run macOS, Linux, and Windows 11 ARM virtual machines directly from the menu bar. It provides automated guest setup, snapshotting with APFS block deduplication, command-line tools, and automation APIs for scripting or AI agents, making VM management seamless on Apple silicon.

Target audience: macOS developers, DevOps engineers, and power users needing local VMs

Repository: https://swiftvm.app/ · Swift · Apache-2.0 · 225 stars

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