Unrivaled macOS virtualization performance
Anka Hypervisor
- Runs as a native application on mac hardware with a footprint of 15MB
- Leverages native macOS resource scheduling and power management for guest macOS VMs
- INSTANT START technology to start VMs in less than a second for on-demand provisioning
- Para Virtual drivers for greatly increased disk & network performance inside the VMs
- USB passthrough to connect iOS devices to macOS VMs
- Origins in FreeBSD Bhyve/Xhyve hypervisor and EDK II
Anka coexists with T2 Chip
- T2 chip in new mac hardware makes legacy virtualization for macOS inoperable
- T2 chip enabled secure boot and OTF storage encryption impact older approach of booting other OS on mac and Netboot
- Anka hypervisor running as any other macOS application, co-exists with T2 chip
- Eliminates the need for workaround for T2 chip, which can impacting overall hardware security and performance
Real Device Support
- Attach real devices to on-demand provisioned Xcode VMs for real device testing
- REST APIs and command line support to provision device attached on-demand environments
- Support for multiple devices attached to a single macOS VM
- iOS, Android and other devices supported and available as USB devices
Infrastructure as Code
- Fully automate creation of macOS VMs with your project dependencies
- Streamline management of iOS CI/CD inline with Linux
- Create and provision macOS VMs in a container like manner using tags
- Manage VM templates and tags in a central location, similar to other container image management registries
- REST APIs to provision on-demand VMs from existing templates and tags