- I tried to set up a macOS VM recently so I could run an old version of iTunes to manage my iPods. I found it nearly impossible to even download an installer for older versions of the OS, and could never get it working. Where can one acquire an IPSW for, say, macOS Mojave? My understanding is this is not the same thing as the “Install macOS.app”?
- The MCP Server integration is a great addition - being able to have Claude manage VMs directly opens up interesting sandboxing patterns for agent workflows.
One thing I've been thinking about with agents running in isolated environments: how do you handle visibility into what API calls the agent is making from within the VM? Right now we rely on proxying outbound requests to see what's actually happening. Does Lume expose any of that through the MCP interface?
Nice work on the unattended setup - that's usually the painful part.
- I believe this is using Virtualization.framework and not Containerization API from Tahoe, right?
Is there a limit on number of instances you can have per physical mac? i recall there was a hard limit of 2 because of EULA, unless Apple has changed it. (Cupertino really likes to sell you their Macs)
by abrookewood
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- "We built a VNC + OCR system that clicks through macOS Setup Assistant automatically" - that is both awesome and annoying. I guess I assumed that Apple supported some form of unattended setup.
by fartfeatures
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- How does this compare to something like Tart and shapehq/tartelet
- Looked at Lume before and it was already very impressive then. For this unattended use case this looks amazing.
Slight tangent - do the VMs have decent graphics performance? I live in fear of one day accidentally pressing the Update button and being forced into the GUI mess that is Tahoe. Knowing I could just use a VM with Sequioa as my primary desktop would dramatically lower my anxiety.
- Sorry for the naive question but specifically for running Claude on a sandbox, why do people decide to use lume as opposed to running it on Docker?
by JimDabell
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- > We built a VNC + OCR system that clicks through macOS Setup Assistant automatically.
You can automate at least some of this with `defaults write` commands or copying files to the right places. If you look at what some existing MDM platforms do you should be able to do this a lot more efficiently.
- How is the networking? Tart broke networking in Tahoe. Would love to see this work, setting up base images has always been a massive pain.
- This at least feels more natural than writing Swift scripts.
by frabonacci
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