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QEMU (CLI)

The QEMU documentation includes instructions for installing QEMU via Homebrew and MacPorts.

Example using 8GB of RAM and 8 CPU cores:

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 8096 -accel hvf -smp 8 -netdev user,id=mynet.0,hostfwd=tcp::18000-:18000,hostfwd=tcp::18010-:18010 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=mynet.0 -hda devstack-bullseye.qcow2

UTM

UTM is also available as an option to run the VM with a GUI. Make sure ports 18000 and 18010 are forwarded.

M1 Macs

QEMU will work on M1 Macs, provided qemu-system-x86_64 is added to the firewall exception rules in UTM settings. However, because the provided image is x86_64, QEMU will have to start in emulation mode; this will make running the devstack a very CPU intensive process, and thus much slower.

For a better development experience, we suggest going through the steps of the bare-metal devstack installation. Setup will take a lot longer, but the resulting environment will be actually usable for development.