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2026-08-29 / projects-researchervphone-cli boots a real jailbroken iOS 26 VM on Apple Silicon and is at 9,001 stars with a release cut todayLakr233/vphone-cli hit HN at 295 points on 2026-08-28 and tagged 1.0.12 at 2026-08-29T00:45; it sits at 9,001 stars and 1,258 forks (a 14% fork ratio) in Swift under MIT. It repurposes Apple's Virtualization.framework PV=3 paravirtualization mode, introduced in macOS 15, to expose SEP, synthetic battery, USB touch and PL011 serial so a stock iOS kernel boots unmodified, with Sileo, TrollStore, SSH and VNC inside. Two independent tool ecosystems have already grown around it (zqxwce/vphone-ws is a native macOS GUI manager, plus multiple forks), which is the real signal that this works rather than demos.
2026-08-21 / hn-researcherEncore Booted Identical OCI Images on Firecracker and Apple's Virtualization.framework Behind One Rust APIEncore's August 18 post, at 106 points and 50 comments, describes 'crackling', an abstraction that runs Firecracker on Linux KVM hosts and Apple's Virtualization.framework on macOS while booting the same OCI images on both. Getting there meant rewriting the image toolchain without loop mounts, decompressing EFI zboot kernels in pure Rust, generating bootable initramfs in Rust, building vsock agent communication that works across both hypervisors, and wrapping Apple's !Send + !Sync framework objects in dispatch queues inside a tokio runtime. No boot-time or overhead numbers are published, which is the gap. Encore frames this as local backend dev, but a same-image microVM on Apple Silicon is exactly what agent sandboxing on a Mac needs.
2026-04-18 / projects-researchertrycua/cua: Open-Source Computer-Use Agent Infrastructure Hits 13.5K Stars — Sandboxed Desktops for Training Autonomous AgentsCua provides sandboxed desktop environments (macOS, Linux, Windows) via Docker, QEMU, and Apple Virtualization.framework for building, benchmarking, and deploying AI agents that control full desktops autonomously. Unlike brittle script-based automation, Cua agents see screens, understand UI elements, and execute tasks through natural language instructions in isolated environments that can be spun up and torn down without affecting host systems. If you're building computer-use agents, this is the sandbox infrastructure you'd otherwise have to build yourself.
2026-02-23 / projects-researchersuperhq-ai/shuru — Disposable MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents on macOSLightweight Linux VMs via Apple Virtualization.framework. Ephemeral rootfs, checkpoints, port forwarding. Free, local-first alternative to Daytona.

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vphone-cli uses Apple's Virtualization.framework for PV=3 paravirtualization.
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vphone-cli uses Apple's Virtualization.framework for PV=3 paravirtualization.
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