feat: add Apple container backend for patchbay-vm#7
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Add an alternative VM backend using Apple's Containerization framework (macOS 26 + Apple Silicon). The container backend provides sub-second boot times and native VirtioFS mounts, replacing QEMU's SSH-based interaction with `container exec`. - Split vm.rs into common.rs (shared types/helpers), qemu.rs (QEMU backend), and container.rs (Apple container backend) - Add --backend auto|qemu|container flag with auto-detection - Default to all host CPUs and 8GB RAM for both backends - Update docs/guide/vm.md with setup guides for both backends - Add .container-vm and .tmp to .gitignore
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Cool! Do you know if we can run this on CI? Not the full suite but just a smoke test so that we don't break it accidentally. |
- Add macos-check job on self-hosted macOS ARM64 runner - Move e2e to self-hosted Linux runner - Switch all jobs to sccache - Smoke test runs iperf sim via container backend when CLI is available
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Bumped the CI work in general. macOS has provisions but this will need some more attention on the runners from my side, will file an issue to follow up at some point. |
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Seems some of the tests are flaky. |
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Think we have to reduce concurrency. Or increase some ulimits or such, but I'm not yet sure which ones. The failure indicates some limits are being hit I think. |
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I'll take a look at it trying to figure it out. This fine to merge now? |
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Add an alternative VM backend using Apple's Containerization framework (macOS 26 + Apple Silicon). The container backend provides sub-second boot times and native VirtioFS mounts, replacing QEMU's SSH-based interaction with
container exec.