# swiftvm-app/swiftvm

> Native macOS app for running virtual machines on Apple silicon, built with Swift on top of Apple's Virtualization framework. Supports macOS and Linux guests (Windows planned), with CLI, snapshots and shared folders.

- Magnitude: 4.4 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 123 total · +11 stars measured 2026-10-12, 14:13–17:23 UTC, ≈ 20 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Swift · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-10 · Last push: 2026-10-12
- GitHub: https://github.com/swiftvm-app/swiftvm · Homepage: https://swiftvm.app · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/swiftvm-app/swiftvm

## Useful for

- Spin up a Linux VM from a cloud image in seconds.
- Run a macOS guest that installs and configures itself.
- Automate VM setup with swiftvm CLI and setup scripts.

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-12 (UTC), 14:13–17:23: 112 → 123 stars (+11). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +20 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 2 days old and already has 123 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #169.
- About 7 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 7
- Issues and pull requests: 3
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 35 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 5
- Latest release: v1.1.0 (2026-10-12)

## Stars per day, last 3 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-10 … 2026-10-12: 0, 84, 11

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #169

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-12 17:36 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.