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macOS-vm projects on GitHub

Running macOS virtual machines on Linux or other hosts.

As of , the most-starred macOS-vm projects on GitHub are Docker-OSX (53K stars), macos (21.7K stars) and macOS-Simple-KVM (13.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 6 macOS-vm repositories with 97.4K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was vphone-aio, with +184 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+184

vphone-aio

34306/vphone-aio · ★ 7.8K

vphone-aio is a single shell script that downloads, merges, and launches a jailbroken iOS 26.1 virtual phone (vphone) on your Mac, with the jailbreak bootstrap already installed.

+7

Docker-OSX

sickcodes/Docker-OSX · ★ 53K

Docker-OSX lets you run a full macOS virtual machine inside a Docker container using KVM, giving near-native performance for security research, CI/CD, and development without owning a real Mac.

+6

macos

dockur/macos · ★ 21.7K

dockur/macos lets you run a full macOS virtual machine inside a Docker container, complete with a web-based viewer so you can control it right from your browser.

The all-time top

6 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · sickcodes/Docker-OSX

    Docker-OSX

    Docker-OSX lets you run a full macOS virtual machine inside a Docker container using KVM, giving near-native performance for security research, CI/CD, and development without owning a real Mac.

    53K
  2. #2 · dockur/macos

    macos

    dockur/macos lets you run a full macOS virtual machine inside a Docker container, complete with a web-based viewer so you can control it right from your browser.

    21.7K
  3. #3 · foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

    macOS-Simple-KVM

    A set of scripts and tools for setting up a macOS virtual machine in QEMU, accelerated by KVM, so you can run macOS on a Linux host.

    13.9K
  1. 4

    vphone-aio

    7.8K34306/vphone-aio · Shell

    vphone-aio is a single shell script that downloads, merges, and launches a jailbroken iOS 26.1 virtual phone (vphone) on your Mac, with the jailbreak bootstrap already installed.

  2. 5

    noty

    496aimen08/noty · Swift

    Noty is a native macOS sticky-notes app that hides at the edge of your screen as a small pill, fanning out into note tabs when you move the pointer there, instead of sitting in a dock or window.

  3. 6

    vfkit

    431crc-org/vfkit · Go

    vfkit is a command-line tool that starts virtual machines on macOS using Apple's built-in Virtualization framework, and it also ships a Go package to generate vfkit command lines programmatically.

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