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skylartaylor/gbos-vm

Hardware, IoT & roboticsPython
Total stars
91
Today · UTC
+2since 15:36 UTC
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Run Googlebook OS in a GPU-accelerated VM on Apple Silicon Macs

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About the project

Runs a real Googlebook OS image (ARM64, Android 17) in a GPU-accelerated QEMU VM on Apple Silicon Macs, with Chrome working and Vulkan passed through to Metal. Aimed at developers who want to poke at the OS without real hardware.

Useful for
  • Boot Googlebook OS in a VM on a Mac to explore Android 17
  • Test Chrome and WebGL content inside the guest system
  • Build the VM from Google's recovery image via install.sh

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3.7 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 9, 2026, 16:41 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

03060October 4, 2026October 9, 2026

Bars show daily stars; the line is a moving average of the available history. Short histories do not yet establish a reliable usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Why it’s trending

  • Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-09 (UTC), 15:36–16:27: 89 → 91 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
  • Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +8 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
  • The repository is 2 days old and already has 91 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
  • Top new repositories this week: #197.
  • Recent forks include notable developers: @thangman22 (301 followers).

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Numbers

Total stars
91
Today
+2 stars measured 2026-10-09, 15:36–16:27 UTC, ≈ 8 by evening
Forks
7
Issues and pull requests
9
Watchers
0
Language
Python
License
MIT
Created
October 7, 2026
Last push
October 8, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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