- VirtualBox - free desktop virtualization software, only really for x86 / x86_64 based systems, current beta doesn't work on Mac Arm Silicon processors
- UTM - easy frontend to use qemu virtualization on Mac Apple M Silicon processors
- Vagrant - automates VirtualBox VMs for easy reproduction of local labs with scripted provisioners or calling Puppet or similar (I used this a lot at Cloudera)
- MultiPass - see below
Uses hyperkit virtualization on Mac for easy VM management.
https://multipass.run/docs/mac-tutorial
brew install --cask multipass
multipass find
multipass launch -n myvm 22.04
multipass list
multipass shell
#multipass stop myvm
multipass delete myvm
multipass purge