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Updated macOS and Windows 11 ARM VM support details, clarified GPU acceleration capabilities, and improved headless mode description.
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@@ -22,15 +22,15 @@ Windows features:
- Headless mode: a scriptable local HTTP/JSON API + dependency-free Python SDK (`asb.py`) for creating and driving GPU-accelerated VMs programmatically
Mac features:
- macOS VM support
- Skips most of the install setup process
- macOS or Windows 11 ARM VM support
- Zero touch install for Windows 11, macOS has 3 unskippable onboarding steps
- Copy and Paste
- 2 Channel Audio
- GPU Acceleration via Paravirtualization with support for Metal
- macOS: GPU Acceleration via Paravirtualization with support for Metal, Windows: No GPU Acceleration
- SSH via virtio-vsock (no network required)
- Dynamic display sizing
- Fixed 1080P60 display on Windows 11 guests, Dynamic display sizing on macOS guests
- Provision and boot with / without internet
- Headless mode: the same scriptable local HTTP/JSON API + Python SDK (`asb.py`) as on Windows, for driving macOS VMs programmatically
- Headless mode: the same scriptable local HTTP/JSON API + Python SDK (`asb.py`) as on Windows, for driving macOS and Windows 11 VMs programmatically
Requirements:
Windows 11 with an x64 Processor or macOS Tahoe (M Series)
@@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ Virtual Machine Platform is the same Windows feature WSL2 uses.
- Scripting the VM lifecycle from code — create, snapshot, branch, SSH into, and delete
GPU-accelerated VMs — with the Python SDK.
**Headless API.** `appsandbox.exe --headless` (or `sudo … --headless` on macOS) starts a
**Headless API.**
`appsandbox.exe --headless`
(or `sudo /Appsandbox.app/Contents/MacOS/AppSandbox --headless` on macOS) starts a
single-owner daemon that hosts the same core as the GUI and exposes it as a Docker-style
local HTTP/JSON API on `127.0.0.1`, identical on both platforms. The stdlib-only Python SDK
(`asb.py`) wraps it: create GPU-accelerated VMs (GPU-PV is a `gpuMode` create option), SSH