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It is common that programmers will need to interface with virtual-machines in their day-to-day workflows, and one popular way of doing so on Linux and Windows systems is with virt-manager.
Is their a way to get virt-manager or a similar alternative running on a MacOS machine?
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Virtualization programs such as Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion run on the macOS, but allow you to create a Virtual Machine – or VM – that mimics the hardware of a Windows PC. So you can create a VM on your Mac and then install Windows – or another operating systems, such as Linux – on the VM.
Building QEMU for macOS The system requirements are: One of the two most recent versions of macOS (currently Catalina or Big Sur) The clang compiler shipped with the version of Xcode for that OS X. GCC might also work, but we recommend clang.
There's now a brew formula homebrew-virt-manager which I've used to successfully connect to a CentOS 5 box running qemu+kvm.
brew tap jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager brew install virt-manager virt-viewer sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2 virt-manager -c qemu+ssh://user@libvirthost/system?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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