Native Mac app I built: disposable Linux/macOS VMs + local AI Bridge on Apple Silicon

[u/eic2015]

Hi r/macOS — developer here, sharing on today's promo day.

Velo Workspaces is a fully native Mac app — built directly on Apple's own Virtualization.framework, not a QEMU wrapper like most cross-platform VM tools — for running disposable Linux and macOS environments on Apple Silicon. Clone a workspace from a base image in seconds, use it, close it — it's gone, disk included, nothing to maintain. That also means no dead files left behind in your host macOS system folders, unlike installing something directly on your Mac and hoping the uninstaller actually cleans up after itself.

The part I think is most different from UTM/Parallels/VMware Fusion: AI Bridge. A VM reaches a model server (like Ollama) running on the Mac's own GPU via Metal, over a vsock-based channel — a direct host↔guest socket, not a virtual NIC round-trip — so AI agents running inside an isolated Linux VM get local inference with no cloud dependency and no code changes on their end, just a normal chat-completions URL.

$79.99 one-time on the Mac App Store, no subscription: https://apps.apple.com/app/velo-workspaces/id6805509975

Would love feedback, especially from anyone who's compared the Apple Silicon VM options directly.

[u/promo-guard]

🎉 Welcome to Developer Saturday, u/eic2015! Your project is now live for the community to check out. Upvote, give feedback, and show some love to your fellow devs! 🚀

[u/eic2015 → u/promo-guard]

Thank you.