nixos-apple-silicon
colima
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nixos-apple-silicon
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Hackintosh Is Almost Dead
I just used this: https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/blob/main/do...
I used one of their releases rather than building my own image. It’s a guide that merits careful reading, as some key steps are not specifically bulleted. Oh, and it’s not the NixOS graphical installer.
But it was dead simple, and 99% of the heavy lifting is from the Asahi team. The biggest downside is that updating the support files is a manual process, but NixOS of course makes it a breeze to rebuild into a new environment—and back out if it doesn’t work.
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Asahi Linux folks are doing us a solid with WPA3 fixes
I doubt it will ever have native support. NixOS doesn't do native support. For what it's worth I'm running NixOS on an M2 Max MPB using https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon.
- NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon
- Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
- Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs
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Nix-Powered Development with OCaml
Most hardcore Nix users/developers I have met have been suspicious for Flakes for several years, so your point rings true.
That said, it feels like they are slowly coming to terms with it and just accepting it as default. Here are two examples of maintainers eventually accepting flake support on their repos after initial hesitation [1][2].
[1] https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/pull/47
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ARM64 Linux Workstation
I do, no issues at all with the beta Asahi kernel, you basically have to git clone https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon in /etc/nixos/, include a file from that repo in the configuration.nix and configure as you like (beta gpu driver or not, which kernel, 4k pages or not, ecc). The experience then is exactly the same as a stock NixOS installation.
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chroot to existing Asahi installation
there is a NixOS iso for m1 you can use it https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon
- NixOS on M1
colima
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How I ended up using Colima for Docker on Apple Silicon
While looking into the issue with Podman, I came across colima. Apart from being able to run AMD64 images out of the box, there were additional benefits to it, one of which was, unlike podman, colima could use Rosetta 2 for x64 emulation (which is significantly more performant).
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Lcl.host: fast, easy HTTPS in your local dev environment
If you don't need a GUI, the following combo works pretty well:
- https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
- https://github.com/peterldowns/localias
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Damn Small Linux 2024
You might look into CoLima as a way to get started.
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima?tab=readme-ov-file
Its user interface is Docker-like, using containers.
For full desktop, I've only used the commercial app "Parallels", which can set up an Ubuntu desktop for you. Also Fedora and Alpine and Debian I believe.
But
> I don't really have any resources to share. I just know how to boot a vmlinuz with an initramfs using QEMU, and decided to download the Linux kernel source code and try compiling it.
I highly recommend working through Linux from Scratch and possibly the Gentoo Handbook. It's a journey.
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Howto: WASM runtimes in Docker / Colima
I could not find any guide how to add WASM container capability to Docker running on Colima. This guide provides a few Colima templates for exactly this, which adds WasmEdge, Wasmtime and Wasmer runtime types.
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RamRamRamEveryoneSleepingOnDocker
Colima runs much faster on Macos: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
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Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data
After docker desktop became unusable, I jumped to colima and never looked back. I still use the docker runtime in it (the non-proprietary part) but it also supports containerd. On Mac it's just a "brew install colima" and then "colima start"
I also install the compose and ecr credentials plug-ins (since I use ecr for my container registry.) It has the full functionality of docker desktop minus the UI, which I never used anyways.
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
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K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
On my M1 Pro system, I have nothing but positive things to say about the experience of using Colima (https://github.com/abiosoft/colima). Quick to set up and fast to use.
- abiosoft/colima
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UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
I'd say Lima and Colima should be enough for most use cases:
https://lima-vm.io/
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
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Lazydocker
The bash/zsh equivalent wouldn't be too hard, but I use fish.
[0] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima, https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fabiosof...
[1] https://orbstack.dev [3], https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Forbstack.dev
[2] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima#customizing-the-vm and https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/blob/main/docs/FAQ.md#edi...
[3] I’m on OrbStack now, but it isn’t so much better at how I use Docker than Colima is that I think that it’s an instant buy, especially with the planned subscription model. If I used anything other than the Docker integration, I might think it's better, but as of right now, no.
I also have some issues with its insistence on asking for elevated permissions. I will never grant permission[4] to make a symlink to the "standard" Docker socket; context and `$DOCKER_HOST` work well enough. It should not ask if the permission hasn't been given once. I also worry about other "advanced" features that may need an elevated permissions helper[5].
[4] https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/281#issuecomment...
[5] https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/281#issuecomment... and following
What are some alternatives?
nixos-infect - [GPLv3+] install nixos over the existing OS in a DigitalOcean droplet (and others with minor modifications)
lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers
docs - Hardware and software docs / wiki
Podman Desktop - Podman Desktop - A graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes
m1n1 - A bootloader and experimentation playground for Apple Silicon
minikube - Run Kubernetes locally
SwayM1 - A Guide on how to install and configure sway for M1 MackBooks.
rd - Container Management and Kubernetes on the Desktop
powertop - The Linux PowerTOP tool -- please post patches to the mailing list instead of using github pull requests
podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
linux - Linux kernel source tree
multipass - Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances