KubeVirt does not run on Apple Silicon, so I built KubeSilicon

Описание и применение

KubeSilicon позволяет запускать Linux‑ARM64 виртуальные машины на Mac с Apple Silicon, заменяя KubeVirt, который требует KVM, недоступного в macOS.

Задача

KubeVirt requires KVM, which macOS lacks, preventing VM creation on Apple Silicon Macs.

Результат

KubeSilicon enables running Linux ARM64 VMs on Apple Silicon Macs, achieving VM start times of ~6s and pod ping latency of 1–2 ms.

Рабочий процесс

• Create a kind cluster on the Mac
• Install KubeSilicon via make install
• Apply a SiliconVM YAML to the cluster
• The daemon boots the VM and reports status
• Pods can SSH or ping the VM

Доказательства

KubeVirt does not run on a Mac with Apple Silicon.

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In my tests the VM reaches Running in about 6 seconds once the image is cached, and a busybox pod pings it in 1 to 2 ms.

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Early on, guests crashed at random: kernel Oops and SIGILL in 3 of 4 boots with Apple's default disk mode. Switching the disk attachment to cached with fsync gave 0 crashes in 9 boots.

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