tart exec: handle input redirection of regular files (#1106)

* Upgrade Swift Argument Parser to 1.6.1

* Remove ArgumentParser workaround

.ci/set-version.sh

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ TMPFILE=$(mktemp)
 envsubst < Sources/tart/CI/CI.swift > $TMPFILE
 mv $TMPFILE Sources/tart/CI/CI.swift
 
-/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :CFBundleShortVersionString string ${CIRRUS_TAG}" Info.plist
+/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :CFBundleShortVersionString string ${CIRRUS_TAG}" Resources/Info.plist

.cirrus.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use_compute_credits: true
 
 task:
-  name: Test on Sonoma
+  name: Test on Sequoia
   alias: test
   persistent_worker:
     labels:
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ task:
     - export PATH=$(pwd)/.build/arm64-apple-macosx/debug:$PATH
     # Run integration tests
     - cd integration-tests
-    - HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 brew install virtualenv
-    - virtualenv venv
+    - python3 -m venv --symlinks venv
     - source venv/bin/activate
     - pip install -r requirements.txt
     - pytest --verbose --junit-xml=pytest-junit.xml
@@ -38,7 +37,7 @@ task:
   name: Lint
   alias: lint
   macos_instance:
-    image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-runner:sonoma
+    image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-runner:sequoia
   lint_script:
     - swift package plugin --allow-writing-to-package-directory swiftformat --cache ignore --lint --report swiftformat.json .
   always:
@@ -55,7 +54,7 @@ task:
   name: Build ($BUILD_ARCH)
   alias: build
   macos_instance:
-    image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-runner:sonoma
+    image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-runner:sequoia
   build_script: swift build --arch $BUILD_ARCH --product tart
   sign_script: codesign --sign - --entitlements Resources/tart-dev.entitlements --force .build/$BUILD_ARCH-apple-macosx/debug/tart
   binary_artifacts:
@@ -68,7 +67,7 @@ task:
     - lint
     - build
   macos_instance:
-    image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-runner:sonoma
+    image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-runner:sequoia
   env:
     MACOS_CERTIFICATE: ENCRYPTED[552b9d275d1c2bdbc1bff778b104a8f9a53cbd0d59344d4b7f6d0ca3c811a5cefb97bef9ba0ef31c219cb07bdacdd2c2]
     AC_PASSWORD: ENCRYPTED[4a761023e7e06fe2eb350c8b6e8e7ca961af193cb9ba47605f25f1d353abc3142606f412e405be48fd897a78787ea8c2]
@@ -84,8 +83,9 @@ task:
     - security set-key-partition-list -S apple-tool:,apple:,codesign: -s -k password101 build.keychain
     - xcrun notarytool store-credentials "notarytool" --apple-id "hello@cirruslabs.org" --team-id "9M2P8L4D89" --password $AC_PASSWORD
   install_script:
-    - brew install go goreleaser/tap/goreleaser-pro
+    - brew install go
     - brew install mitchellh/gon/gon
+    - brew install --cask goreleaser/tap/goreleaser-pro
   info_script:
     - security find-identity -v
     - xcodebuild -version
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ task:
     - test
     - build
   macos_instance:
-    image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-runner:sonoma
+    image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-runner:sequoia
   env:
     MACOS_CERTIFICATE: ENCRYPTED[552b9d275d1c2bdbc1bff778b104a8f9a53cbd0d59344d4b7f6d0ca3c811a5cefb97bef9ba0ef31c219cb07bdacdd2c2]
     AC_PASSWORD: ENCRYPTED[4a761023e7e06fe2eb350c8b6e8e7ca961af193cb9ba47605f25f1d353abc3142606f412e405be48fd897a78787ea8c2]
@@ -121,9 +121,10 @@ task:
     - security import certificate.p12 -k build.keychain -P password101 -T /usr/bin/codesign -T /usr/bin/pkgbuild
     - security set-key-partition-list -S apple-tool:,apple:,codesign: -s -k password101 build.keychain
     - xcrun notarytool store-credentials "notarytool" --apple-id "hello@cirruslabs.org" --team-id "9M2P8L4D89" --password $AC_PASSWORD
-  install_script: 
-    - brew install go goreleaser/tap/goreleaser-pro getsentry/tools/sentry-cli
+  install_script:
+    - brew install go getsentry/tools/sentry-cli
     - brew install mitchellh/gon/gon
+    - brew install --cask goreleaser/tap/goreleaser-pro
   info_script:
     - security find-identity -v
     - xcodebuild -version
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@ task:
     registry_config: ENCRYPTED[!cf1a0f25325aa75bad3ce6ebc890bc53eb0044c02efa70d8cefb83ba9766275a994b4831706c52630a0692b2fa9cfb9e!]
   env:
     DEPLOY_TOKEN: ENCRYPTED[!45ed45666558902ed1c2400add734ec063103bec31841847e8c8764802fca229bfa6d85c690e16ad159e047574b48793!]
-  deploy_script: 
+  deploy_script:
     - git config --global user.name "Cirrus CI"
     - git config --global user.name "hello@cirruslabs.org"
     - git remote set-url origin https://$DEPLOY_TOKEN@github.com/cirruslabs/tart/

.gitignore

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tart.xcodeproj/
 # AppCode
 .idea/
 
+# VS Code
+.vscode/
+
 # Swift
 .build/
 

.goreleaser.yml

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
+version: 2
+
 project_name: tart
 
 before:
   hooks:
     - .ci/set-version.sh
-    - swift build --arch x86_64 -c release --product tart
-    - swift build --arch arm64 -c release --product tart
-    - gon gon.hcl
+    - swift build --arch arm64 --configuration release --product tart
+    - swift build --arch x86_64 --configuration release --product tart
 
 builds:
   - id: tart
@@ -20,8 +21,14 @@ builds:
     prebuilt:
       path: '.build/{{- if eq .Arch "arm64" }}arm64{{- else }}x86_64{{ end }}-apple-macosx/release/tart'
 
+universal_binaries:
+  - name_template: tart.app/Contents/MacOS/tart
+    replace: true
+    hooks:
+      post: gon gon.hcl
+
 archives:
-  - name_template: "{{ .ProjectName }}-{{ .Arch }}"
+  - name_template: "{{ .ProjectName }}"
     files:
       - src: Resources/embedded.provisionprofile
         dst: tart.app/Contents
@@ -42,7 +49,13 @@ brews:
     repository:
       owner: cirruslabs
       name: homebrew-cli
-    caveats: See the GitHub repository for more information
+    caveats: |
+      Tart has been installed. You might want to reduce the default DHCP lease time
+      from 86,400 to 600 seconds to avoid DHCP shortage when running lots of VMs daily:
+
+        sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.InternetSharing.default.plist bootpd -dict DHCPLeaseTimeSecs -int 600
+
+      See https://tart.run/faq/#changing-the-default-dhcp-lease-time for more details.
     homepage: https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart
     license: "Fair Source"
     description: Run macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Hardware

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Table of Contents
 
 1. Code should follow camel case
 2. Code should follow [SwiftFormat](https://github.com/nicklockwood/SwiftFormat#swift-package-manager-plugin) guidelines. You can auto-format the code by running the following command:
+
 ```bash
 swift package plugin --allow-writing-to-package-directory swiftformat --cache ignore .
 ```

PROFILING.md

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+# Profiling Tart
+
+## Using `time(1)`
+
+Perhaps, the easiest, but not the most comprehensive way to tell what's going on with Tart is to use the [`time(1)`](https://ss64.com/mac/time.html) command.
+
+In the example below, you will run `tart pull` via `time(1)` to gather generalized CPU, I/O and memory usage metrics:
+
+```shell
+/usr/bin/time -l tart pull ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-base:latest
+```
+
+**Note:** you need to specify a full path to `time(1)` binary, otherwise the shell's built-in `time` command will be invoked, which doesn't have the `-l` command-line argument.
+
+**Note:** The `-l` command-line argument makes `time(1)` return much more useful information, for example, maximum memory usage.
+
+When running the command above, you'll see the `tart pull` output first as it pulls the image, and then the `time(1)` output, which will be printed once the Tart process finishes:
+
+```
+      172.17 real        10.29 user         8.36 sys
+           353796096  maximum resident set size
+                   0  average shared memory size
+                   0  average unshared data size
+                   0  average unshared stack size
+               23838  page reclaims
+                  35  page faults
+                   0  swaps
+                   0  block input operations
+                   0  block output operations
+                   8  messages sent
+                   8  messages received
+                   0  signals received
+                 146  voluntary context switches
+              222950  involuntary context switches
+         39683070975  instructions retired
+         27562035252  cycles elapsed
+           170920448  peak memory footprint
+```
+
+From the output above, you can tell that `tart pull` spent nearly 90% of time off-CPU (`real` > `user` + `sys`), which means that Tart was mostly waiting for the I/O (be it a network or disk), instead of decompressing disk layers or doing other useful computations.
+
+## Using `xctrace(1)`
+
+[`xctrace(1)`](https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/xctrace.1.html) is a `.trace` format recorder for the [Instruments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruments_(software)) app, which yields much more powerful insights compared to `time(1)`. For example, it can tell which Tart functions spent the most time on the CPU, thus allowing the Tart developers to further optimize these functions.
+
+To use it, make sure that [Xcode](https://developer.apple.com/xcode/resources/) is installed. If you're installing Xcode for the first time on the machine, you'll need to launch it once and click the blue "Install" button. There's no need to choose any platforms except for the macOS.
+
+Once done, you can create a CPU profile of `tart pull`:
+
+```shell
+xctrace record --template "CPU Profiler" --target-stdout - --launch -- /opt/homebrew/bin/tart pull ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-base:latest
+```
+
+Now that `xctrace(1)` is running, you'll see the `tart pull`-related output first, and once finished, the following line will appear:
+
+```
+Output file saved as: Launch_[...].trace
+```
+
+To view this trace in the Instruments app, simply find this directory in Finder and double-click it. Instruments app will appear:
+
+![](Resources/Instruments.png)
+
+To send this trace, right-click its directory in Finder and choose "Compress [...]". This will result in a similarly named file with a `.zip` at the end, which can now be conveniently sent via email or uploaded.

Package.resolved

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "originHash" : "6a15657d8cb1d3e2b447f31aff5b47d6a9655d2262e48ca76476ba525435269b",
+  "originHash" : "668bad809d4882f75f097e66a12a6dbc8e61ec998f1800a7e09439c854fadda1",
   "pins" : [
     {
       "identity" : "antlr4",
@@ -10,6 +10,24 @@
         "version" : "4.13.2"
       }
     },
+    {
+      "identity" : "cirruslabs_tart-guest-agent_apple_swift",
+      "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
+      "location" : "https://buf.build/gen/swift/git/1.28.2-00000000000000-17d7dedafb88.1/cirruslabs_tart-guest-agent_apple_swift.git",
+      "state" : {
+        "revision" : "ccfae5de1917cdb0d7c5000008fa5ed0bad032bf",
+        "version" : "1.28.2-00000000000000-17d7dedafb88.1"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "identity" : "cirruslabs_tart-guest-agent_grpc_swift",
+      "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
+      "location" : "https://buf.build/gen/swift/git/1.24.2-00000000000000-17d7dedafb88.1/cirruslabs_tart-guest-agent_grpc_swift.git",
+      "state" : {
+        "branch" : "1.24.2-00000000000000-17d7dedafb88.1",
+        "revision" : "b8421f137325fe8de737ff5b61238f6f2131b2a8"
+      }
+    },
     {
       "identity" : "dynamic",
       "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
@@ -19,6 +37,15 @@
         "revision" : "772883073d044bc754d401cabb6574624eb3778f"
       }
     },
+    {
+      "identity" : "grpc-swift",
+      "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
+      "location" : "https://github.com/grpc/grpc-swift.git",
+      "state" : {
+        "revision" : "8c5e99d0255c373e0330730d191a3423c57373fb",
+        "version" : "1.24.2"
+      }
+    },
     {
       "identity" : "semaphore",
       "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
@@ -33,8 +60,8 @@
       "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
       "location" : "https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-cocoa",
       "state" : {
-        "revision" : "5575af93efb776414f243e93d6af9f6258dc539a",
-        "version" : "8.36.0"
+        "revision" : "65b3d2a7608685e8d4a37c68fa2c64f28d0b537e",
+        "version" : "8.51.1"
       }
     },
     {
@@ -51,17 +78,8 @@
       "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
       "location" : "https://github.com/apple/swift-argument-parser",
       "state" : {
-        "revision" : "41982a3656a71c768319979febd796c6fd111d5c",
-        "version" : "1.5.0"
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "identity" : "swift-async-algorithms",
-      "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
-      "location" : "https://github.com/apple/swift-async-algorithms",
-      "state" : {
-        "branch" : "main",
-        "revision" : "5c8bd186f48c16af0775972700626f0b74588278"
+        "revision" : "309a47b2b1d9b5e991f36961c983ecec72275be3",
+        "version" : "1.6.1"
       }
     },
     {
@@ -78,8 +96,26 @@
       "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
       "location" : "https://github.com/apple/swift-collections.git",
       "state" : {
-        "revision" : "9bf03ff58ce34478e66aaee630e491823326fd06",
-        "version" : "1.1.3"
+        "revision" : "671108c96644956dddcd89dd59c203dcdb36cec7",
+        "version" : "1.1.4"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "identity" : "swift-http-structured-headers",
+      "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
+      "location" : "https://github.com/apple/swift-http-structured-headers.git",
+      "state" : {
+        "revision" : "db6eea3692638a65e2124990155cd220c2915903",
+        "version" : "1.3.0"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "identity" : "swift-http-types",
+      "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
+      "location" : "https://github.com/apple/swift-http-types.git",
+      "state" : {
+        "revision" : "a0a57e949a8903563aba4615869310c0ebf14c03",
+        "version" : "1.4.0"
       }
     },
     {
@@ -91,6 +127,51 @@
         "version" : "1.6.1"
       }
     },
+    {
+      "identity" : "swift-nio",
+      "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
+      "location" : "https://github.com/apple/swift-nio.git",
+      "state" : {
+        "revision" : "34d486b01cd891297ac615e40d5999536a1e138d",
+        "version" : "2.83.0"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "identity" : "swift-nio-extras",
+      "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
+      "location" : "https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-extras.git",
+      "state" : {
+        "revision" : "f1f6f772198bee35d99dd145f1513d8581a54f2c",
+        "version" : "1.26.0"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "identity" : "swift-nio-http2",
+      "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
+      "location" : "https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2.git",
+      "state" : {
+        "revision" : "4281466512f63d1bd530e33f4aa6993ee7864be0",
+        "version" : "1.36.0"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "identity" : "swift-nio-ssl",
+      "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
+      "location" : "https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-ssl.git",
+      "state" : {
+        "revision" : "4b38f35946d00d8f6176fe58f96d83aba64b36c7",
+        "version" : "2.31.0"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "identity" : "swift-nio-transport-services",
+      "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
+      "location" : "https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-transport-services.git",
+      "state" : {
+        "revision" : "cd1e89816d345d2523b11c55654570acd5cd4c56",
+        "version" : "1.24.0"
+      }
+    },
     {
       "identity" : "swift-numerics",
       "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
@@ -100,6 +181,15 @@
         "version" : "1.0.2"
       }
     },
+    {
+      "identity" : "swift-protobuf",
+      "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
+      "location" : "https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf.git",
+      "state" : {
+        "revision" : "ebc7251dd5b37f627c93698e4374084d98409633",
+        "version" : "1.28.2"
+      }
+    },
     {
       "identity" : "swift-retry",
       "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
@@ -118,6 +208,15 @@
         "version" : "1.8.0"
       }
     },
+    {
+      "identity" : "swift-system",
+      "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
+      "location" : "https://github.com/apple/swift-system.git",
+      "state" : {
+        "revision" : "a34201439c74b53f0fd71ef11741af7e7caf01e1",
+        "version" : "1.4.2"
+      }
+    },
     {
       "identity" : "swift-xattr",
       "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",

Package.swift

@@ -10,26 +10,26 @@ let package = Package(
     .executable(name: "tart", targets: ["tart"])
   ],
   dependencies: [
-    .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-argument-parser", from: "1.3.1"),
+    .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-argument-parser", from: "1.6.1"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/mhdhejazi/Dynamic", branch: "master"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-algorithms", from: "1.2.0"),
-    .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-async-algorithms", branch: "main"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/malcommac/SwiftDate", from: "7.0.0"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/antlr/antlr4", exact: "4.13.2"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-atomics.git", .upToNextMajor(from: "1.2.0")),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/nicklockwood/SwiftFormat", from: "0.53.6"),
-    .package(url: "https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-cocoa", from: "8.36.0"),
+    .package(url: "https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-cocoa", from: "8.51.1"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/cfilipov/TextTable", branch: "master"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/sersoft-gmbh/swift-sysctl.git", from: "1.8.0"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/orchetect/SwiftRadix", from: "1.3.1"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/groue/Semaphore", from: "0.0.8"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/fumoboy007/swift-retry", from: "0.2.3"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/jozefizso/swift-xattr", from: "3.0.0"),
+    .package(url: "https://github.com/grpc/grpc-swift.git", .upToNextMajor(from: "1.24.2")),
+    .package(url: "https://buf.build/gen/swift/git/1.24.2-00000000000000-17d7dedafb88.1/cirruslabs_tart-guest-agent_grpc_swift.git", revision: "1.24.2-00000000000000-17d7dedafb88.1"),
   ],
   targets: [
     .executableTarget(name: "tart", dependencies: [
       .product(name: "Algorithms", package: "swift-algorithms"),
-      .product(name: "AsyncAlgorithms", package: "swift-async-algorithms"),
       .product(name: "ArgumentParser", package: "swift-argument-parser"),
       .product(name: "Dynamic", package: "Dynamic"),
       .product(name: "SwiftDate", package: "SwiftDate"),
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ let package = Package(
       .product(name: "Semaphore", package: "Semaphore"),
       .product(name: "DMRetry", package: "swift-retry"),
       .product(name: "XAttr", package: "swift-xattr"),
+      .product(name: "GRPC", package: "grpc-swift"),
+      .product(name: "Cirruslabs_TartGuestAgent_Grpc_Swift", package: "cirruslabs_tart-guest-agent_grpc_swift"),
     ], exclude: [
       "OCI/Reference/Makefile",
       "OCI/Reference/Reference.g4",

README.md

@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ Try running a Tart VM on your Apple Silicon device running macOS 13.0 (Ventura)
 
 ```bash
 brew install cirruslabs/cli/tart
-tart clone ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest sonoma-base
-tart run sonoma-base
+tart clone ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-tahoe-base:latest tahoe-base
+tart run tahoe-base
 ```
 
 Please check the [official documentation](https://tart.run) for more information and/or feel free to use [discussions](https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/discussions)

Resources/Info.plist

@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 	<string>org.cirruslabs.tart</string>
 	<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
 	<string>tart</string>
-	<key>LSBackgroundOnly</key>
-	<string>1</string>
+  <key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>
+  <string>public.app-category.developer-tools</string>
 	<key>CFBundleIconFiles</key>
 	<array>
 		<string>AppIcon.png</string>
@@ -21,5 +21,7 @@
 		<key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
 		<true/>
 	</dict>
+  <key>NSLocalNetworkUsageDescription</key>
+  <string>Access to OCI registries on the local network</string>
 </dict>
 </plist>

Sources/tart/Commands/Clone.swift

@@ -71,10 +71,14 @@ struct Clone: AsyncParsableCommand {
 
       try lock.unlock()
 
-      // APFS is doing copy-on-write so the above cloning operation (just copying files on disk)
+      // APFS is doing copy-on-write, so the above cloning operation (just copying files on disk)
       // is not actually claiming new space until the VM is started and it writes something to disk.
-      // So once we clone the VM let's try to claim a little bit of space for the VM to run.
-      try Prune.reclaimIfNeeded(UInt64(sourceVM.allocatedSizeBytes()), sourceVM)
+      //
+      // So, once we clone the VM let's try to claim the rest of space for the VM to run without errors.
+      let unallocatedBytes = try sourceVM.sizeBytes() - sourceVM.allocatedSizeBytes()
+      if unallocatedBytes > 0 {
+        try Prune.reclaimIfNeeded(UInt64(unallocatedBytes), sourceVM)
+      }
     }, onCancel: {
       try? FileManager.default.removeItem(at: tmpVMDir.baseURL)
     })

Sources/tart/Commands/Create.swift

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ struct Create: AsyncParsableCommand {
   @Argument(help: "VM name")
   var name: String
 
-  @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("create a macOS VM using path to the IPSW file or URL (or \"latest\", to fetch the latest supported IPSW automatically)", valueName: "path"))
+  @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("create a macOS VM using path to the IPSW file or URL (or \"latest\", to fetch the latest supported IPSW automatically)", valueName: "path"), completion: .file())
   var fromIPSW: String?
 
   @Flag(help: "create a Linux VM")
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ struct Create: AsyncParsableCommand {
   @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Disk size in GB"))
   var diskSize: UInt16 = 50
 
+  @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Disk image format", discussion: "ASIF format provides better performance but requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later"))
+  var diskFormat: DiskImageFormat = .raw
+
   func validate() throws {
     if fromIPSW == nil && !linux {
       throw ValidationError("Please specify either a --from-ipsw or --linux option!")
@@ -28,6 +31,11 @@ struct Create: AsyncParsableCommand {
         throw ValidationError("Only Linux VMs are supported on Intel!")
       }
     #endif
+
+    // Validate disk format support
+    if !diskFormat.isSupported {
+      throw ValidationError("Disk format '\(diskFormat.rawValue)' is not supported on this system.")
+    }
   }
 
   func run() async throws {
@@ -58,12 +66,12 @@ struct Create: AsyncParsableCommand {
             ipswURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: NSString(string: fromIPSW).expandingTildeInPath)
           }
 
-          _ = try await VM(vmDir: tmpVMDir, ipswURL: ipswURL, diskSizeGB: diskSize)
+          _ = try await VM(vmDir: tmpVMDir, ipswURL: ipswURL, diskSizeGB: diskSize, diskFormat: diskFormat)
         }
       #endif
 
       if linux {
-        _ = try await VM.linux(vmDir: tmpVMDir, diskSizeGB: diskSize)
+        _ = try await VM.linux(vmDir: tmpVMDir, diskSizeGB: diskSize, diskFormat: diskFormat)
       }
 
       try VMStorageLocal().move(name, from: tmpVMDir)

Sources/tart/Commands/Exec.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,223 @@
+import ArgumentParser
+import Foundation
+import NIOPosix
+import GRPC
+import Cirruslabs_TartGuestAgent_Grpc_Swift
+
+struct ExecCustomExitCodeError: Error {
+  let exitCode: Int32
+}
+
+struct Exec: AsyncParsableCommand {
+  static var configuration = CommandConfiguration(abstract: "Execute a command in a running VM", discussion: """
+  Requires Tart Guest Agent running in a guest VM.
+
+  Note that all non-vanilla Cirrus Labs VM images already have the Tart Guest Agent installed.
+  """)
+
+  @Flag(name: [.customShort("i")], help: "Attach host's standard input to a remote command")
+  var interactive: Bool = false
+
+  @Flag(name: [.customShort("t")], help: "Allocate a remote pseudo-terminal (PTY)")
+  var tty: Bool = false
+
+  @Argument(help: "VM name", completion: .custom(completeLocalMachines))
+  var name: String
+
+  @Argument(parsing: .captureForPassthrough, help: "Command to execute")
+  var command: [String]
+
+  func run() async throws {
+    // We only have withThrowingDiscardingTaskGroup available starting from macOS 14
+    if #unavailable(macOS 14) {
+      throw RuntimeError.Generic("\"tart exec\" is only available on macOS 14 (Sonoma) or newer")
+    }
+
+    // Open VM's directory
+    let vmDir = try VMStorageLocal().open(name)
+
+    // Ensure that the VM is running
+    if try !vmDir.running() {
+      throw RuntimeError.VMNotRunning(name)
+    }
+
+    // Create a gRPC channel connected to the VM's control socket
+    let group = MultiThreadedEventLoopGroup(numberOfThreads: 1)
+    defer {
+      try! group.syncShutdownGracefully()
+    }
+
+    let channel = try GRPCChannelPool.with(
+      target: .unixDomainSocket(vmDir.controlSocketURL.path()),
+      transportSecurity: .plaintext,
+      eventLoopGroup: group,
+    )
+    defer {
+      try! channel.close().wait()
+    }
+
+    // Switch controlling terminal into raw mode when remote pseudo-terminal is requested
+    var state: State? = nil
+
+    if tty && Term.IsTerminal() {
+      state = try Term.MakeRaw()
+    }
+    defer {
+      // Restore terminal to its initial state
+      if let state {
+        try! Term.Restore(state)
+      }
+    }
+
+    // Execute a command in a running VM
+    do {
+      try await execute(channel)
+    } catch let error as GRPCConnectionPoolError {
+      throw RuntimeError.Generic("Failed to connect to the VM using its control socket: \(error.localizedDescription), is the Tart Guest Agent running?")
+    }
+  }
+
+  private func execute(_ channel: GRPCChannel) async throws {
+    let agentAsyncClient = AgentAsyncClient(channel: channel)
+    let execCall = agentAsyncClient.makeExecCall()
+
+    try await execCall.requestStream.send(.with {
+      $0.type = .command(.with {
+        $0.name = command[0]
+        $0.args = Array(command.dropFirst(1))
+        $0.interactive = interactive
+        $0.tty = tty
+        $0.terminalSize = .with {
+          let (width, height) = try! Term.GetSize()
+
+          $0.cols = UInt32(width)
+          $0.rows = UInt32(height)
+        }
+      })
+    })
+
+    // Process command events and optionally send our standard input and/or terminal dimensions
+    try await withThrowingTaskGroup { group in
+      // Stream host's standard input if interactive mode is enabled
+      if interactive {
+        let stdinStream = AsyncThrowingStream<Data, Error> { continuation in
+          let handle = FileHandle.standardInput
+
+          if isRegularFile(handle.fileDescriptor) {
+            // Standard input can be a regular file when input redirection (<) is used,
+            // in which case the handle won't receive any new readability events, so we
+            // just read the file normally here in chunks and consider done with it
+            //
+            // Ideally this is best handled by using non-blocking I/O, but Swift's
+            // standard library only offers inefficient bytes[1] property and SwiftNIO's
+            // NIOFileSystem doesn't seem to support opening raw file descriptors.
+            //
+            // [1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/filehandle/bytes
+            while true {
+              do {
+                let data = try handle.read(upToCount: 64 * 1024)
+                if let data = data {
+                  continuation.yield(data)
+                } else {
+                  continuation.finish()
+                  break
+                }
+              } catch (let error) {
+                continuation.finish(throwing: error)
+                break
+              }
+            }
+          } else {
+            handle.readabilityHandler = { handle in
+              let data = handle.availableData
+
+              if data.isEmpty {
+                continuation.finish()
+              } else {
+                continuation.yield(data)
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        }
+
+        group.addTask {
+          for try await stdinData in stdinStream {
+            try await execCall.requestStream.send(.with {
+              $0.type = .standardInput(.with {
+                $0.data = stdinData
+              })
+            })
+          }
+
+          // Signal EOF as we're done reading standard input
+          try await execCall.requestStream.send(.with {
+            $0.type = .standardInput(.with {
+              $0.data = Data()
+            })
+          })
+        }
+      }
+
+      // Stream host's terminal dimensions if pseudo-terminal is requested
+      signal(SIGWINCH, SIG_IGN)
+      let sigwinchSrc = DispatchSource.makeSignalSource(signal: SIGWINCH)
+      sigwinchSrc.activate()
+
+      if tty {
+        let terminalDimensionsStream = AsyncStream { continuation in
+          sigwinchSrc.setEventHandler {
+            continuation.yield(try! Term.GetSize())
+          }
+        }
+
+        group.addTask {
+          for await (width, height) in terminalDimensionsStream {
+            try await execCall.requestStream.send(.with {
+              $0.type = .terminalResize(.with {
+                $0.cols = UInt32(width)
+                $0.rows = UInt32(height)
+              })
+            })
+          }
+        }
+      }
+
+      // Process command events
+      group.addTask {
+        for try await response in execCall.responseStream {
+          switch response.type {
+          case .standardOutput(let ioChunk):
+            try FileHandle.standardOutput.write(contentsOf: ioChunk.data)
+          case .standardError(let ioChunk):
+            try FileHandle.standardError.write(contentsOf: ioChunk.data)
+          case .exit(let exit):
+            throw ExecCustomExitCodeError(exitCode: exit.code)
+          default:
+            // Unknown event, do nothing
+            continue
+          }
+        }
+      }
+
+      while !group.isEmpty {
+        do {
+          try await group.next()
+        } catch {
+          group.cancelAll()
+
+          throw error
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+private func isRegularFile(_ fileDescriptor: Int32) -> Bool {
+  var stat = stat()
+
+  if fstat(fileDescriptor, &stat) != 0 {
+    return false
+  }
+
+  return (stat.st_mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFREG
+}

Sources/tart/Commands/Export.swift

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ struct Export: AsyncParsableCommand {
   @Argument(help: "Source VM name.", completion: .custom(completeMachines))
   var name: String
 
-  @Argument(help: "Path to the destination file.")
+  @Argument(help: "Path to the destination file.", completion: .file())
   var path: String?
 
   func run() async throws {

Sources/tart/Commands/Get.swift

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ fileprivate struct VMInfo: Encodable {
   let CPU: Int
   let Memory: UInt64
   let Disk: Int
+  let DiskFormat: String
   let Size: String
   let Display: String
   let Running: Bool
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ struct Get: AsyncParsableCommand {
     let vmConfig = try VMConfig(fromURL: vmDir.configURL)
     let memorySizeInMb = vmConfig.memorySize / 1024 / 1024
 
-    let info = VMInfo(OS: vmConfig.os, CPU: vmConfig.cpuCount, Memory: memorySizeInMb, Disk: try vmDir.sizeGB(), Size: String(format: "%.3f", Float(try vmDir.allocatedSizeBytes()) / 1000 / 1000 / 1000), Display: vmConfig.display.description, Running: try vmDir.running(), State: try vmDir.state().rawValue)
+    let info = VMInfo(OS: vmConfig.os, CPU: vmConfig.cpuCount, Memory: memorySizeInMb, Disk: try vmDir.sizeGB(), DiskFormat: vmConfig.diskFormat.rawValue, Size: String(format: "%.3f", Float(try vmDir.allocatedSizeBytes()) / 1000 / 1000 / 1000), Display: vmConfig.display.description, Running: try vmDir.running(), State: try vmDir.state().rawValue)
     print(format.renderSingle(info))
   }
 }

Sources/tart/Commands/IP.swift

@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ import SystemConfiguration
 import Sentry
 
 enum IPResolutionStrategy: String, ExpressibleByArgument, CaseIterable {
-  case dhcp, arp
+  case dhcp, arp, agent
 
-  private(set) static var allValueStrings: [String] = Format.allCases.map { "\($0)"}
+  private(set) static var allValueStrings: [String] = Self.allCases.map { "\($0)"}
 }
 
 struct IP: AsyncParsableCommand {
@@ -19,13 +19,11 @@ struct IP: AsyncParsableCommand {
   @Option(help: "Number of seconds to wait for a potential VM booting")
   var wait: UInt16 = 0
 
-  @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Strategy for resolving IP address: dhcp or arp",
+  @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Strategy for resolving IP address",
                              discussion: """
-                             By default, Tart is looking up and parsing DHCP lease file to determine the IP of the VM.\n
-                             This method is fast and the most reliable but only returns local IP adresses.\n
-                             Alternatively, Tart can call external `arp` executable and parse it's output.\n
-                             In case of enabled Bridged Networking this method will return VM's IP address on the network interface used for Bridged Networking.\n
-                             Note that `arp` strategy won't work for VMs using `--net-softnet`.
+                             By default, Tart is using a "dhcp" resolver which parses the DHCP lease file on host and tries to find an entry containing the VM's MAC address. This method is fast and the most reliable, but only works for VMs are not using the bridged networking.\n
+                             Alternatively, Tart has an "arp" resolver which calls an external "arp" executable and parses it's output. This works for VMs using bridged networking and returns their IP, but when they generate enough network activity to populate the host's ARP table. Note that "arp" strategy won't work for VMs using the Softnet networking.\n
+                             A third strategy, "agent" works in all cases reliably, but requires Guest agent for Tart VMs (https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart-guest-agent) to be installed inside of a VM.
                              """))
   var resolver: IPResolutionStrategy = .dhcp
 
@@ -34,14 +32,16 @@ struct IP: AsyncParsableCommand {
     let vmConfig = try VMConfig.init(fromURL: vmDir.configURL)
     let vmMACAddress = MACAddress(fromString: vmConfig.macAddress.string)!
 
-    guard let ip = try await IP.resolveIP(vmMACAddress, resolutionStrategy: resolver, secondsToWait: wait) else {
+    guard let ip = try await IP.resolveIP(vmMACAddress, resolutionStrategy: resolver, secondsToWait: wait, controlSocketURL: vmDir.controlSocketURL) else {
       var message = "no IP address found"
 
       if try !vmDir.running() {
         message += ", is your VM running?"
       }
 
-      if (vmConfig.os == .linux && resolver == .arp) {
+      if (resolver == .agent) {
+        message += " (also make sure that Guest agent for Tart is running inside of a VM)"
+      } else if (vmConfig.os == .linux && resolver == .arp) {
         message += " (not all Linux distributions are compatible with the ARP resolver)"
       }
 
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ struct IP: AsyncParsableCommand {
     print(ip)
   }
 
-  static public func resolveIP(_ vmMACAddress: MACAddress, resolutionStrategy: IPResolutionStrategy = .dhcp, secondsToWait: UInt16 = 0) async throws -> IPv4Address? {
+  static public func resolveIP(_ vmMACAddress: MACAddress, resolutionStrategy: IPResolutionStrategy = .dhcp, secondsToWait: UInt16 = 0, controlSocketURL: URL? = nil) async throws -> IPv4Address? {
     let waitUntil = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .second, value: Int(secondsToWait), to: Date.now)!
 
     repeat {
@@ -64,6 +64,14 @@ struct IP: AsyncParsableCommand {
         if let leases = try Leases(), let ip = leases.ResolveMACAddress(macAddress: vmMACAddress) {
           return ip
         }
+      case .agent:
+        guard let controlSocketURL = controlSocketURL else {
+          throw RuntimeError.Generic("Cannot perform IP resolution via Tart Guest Agent when control socket URL is not set")
+        }
+
+        if let ip = try await AgentResolver.ResolveIP(controlSocketURL) {
+          return ip
+        }
       }
 
       // wait a second

Sources/tart/Commands/Import.swift

@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ import Foundation
 struct Import: AsyncParsableCommand {
   static var configuration = CommandConfiguration(abstract: "Import VM from a compressed .tvm file")
 
-  @Argument(help: "Path to a file created with \"tart export\".")
+  @Argument(help: "Path to a file created with \"tart export\".", completion: .file())
   var path: String
 
-  @Argument(help: "Destination VM name.")
+  @Argument(help: "Destination VM name.", completion: .custom(completeLocalMachines))
   var name: String
 
   func validate() throws {

Sources/tart/Commands/List.swift

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ struct List: AsyncParsableCommand {
   @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Only display VMs from the specified source (e.g. --source local, --source oci)."))
   var source: String?
 
-  @Option(help: "Output format: text or json")
+  @Option(help: "Output format: text or json", completion: .list(["text", "json"]))
   var format: Format = .text
 
   @Flag(name: [.short, .long], help: ArgumentHelp("Only display VM names."))

Sources/tart/Commands/Prune.swift

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import SwiftDate
 struct Prune: AsyncParsableCommand {
   static var configuration = CommandConfiguration(abstract: "Prune OCI and IPSW caches or local VMs")
 
-  @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Entries to remove: \"caches\" targets OCI and IPSW caches and \"vms\" targets local VMs."))
+  @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Entries to remove: \"caches\" targets OCI and IPSW caches and \"vms\" targets local VMs."), completion: .list(["caches", "vms"]))
   var entries: String = "caches"
 
   @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Remove entries that were last accessed more than n days ago",

Sources/tart/Commands/Pull.swift

@@ -47,8 +47,5 @@ struct Pull: AsyncParsableCommand {
     defaultLogger.appendNewLine("pulling \(remoteName)...")
 
     try await VMStorageOCI().pull(remoteName, registry: registry, concurrency: concurrency, deduplicate: deduplicate)
-
-    // to explicitly set the image as being accessed so it won't get pruned immediately
-    _ = try VMStorageOCI().open(remoteName)
   }
 }

Sources/tart/Commands/Push.swift

@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ struct Push: AsyncParsableCommand {
                              """))
   var chunkSize: Int = 0
 
+
+  @Option(name: [.customLong("label")], help: ArgumentHelp("additional metadata to attach to the OCI image configuration in key=value format",
+                                                           discussion: "Can be specified multiple times to attach multiple labels."))
+  var labels: [String] = []
+
   @Option(help: .hidden)
   var diskFormat: String = "v2"
 
@@ -81,7 +86,8 @@ struct Push: AsyncParsableCommand {
           references: references,
           chunkSizeMb: chunkSize,
           diskFormat: diskFormat,
-          concurrency: concurrency
+          concurrency: concurrency,
+          labels: parseLabels()
         )
         // Populate the local cache (if requested)
         if populateCache {
@@ -115,6 +121,28 @@ struct Push: AsyncParsableCommand {
     return RemoteName(host: registry.host!, namespace: registry.namespace,
                       reference: Reference(digest: digest))
   }
+
+  // Helper method to convert labels array to dictionary
+  func parseLabels() -> [String: String] {
+    var result = [String: String]()
+
+    for label in labels {
+      let parts = label.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespaces).split(separator: "=", maxSplits: 1, omittingEmptySubsequences: false)
+
+      let key = parts.count > 0 ? String(parts[0]) : ""
+      let value = parts.count > 1 ? String(parts[1]) : ""
+
+      // It sometimes makes sense to provide an empty value,
+      // but not an empty key
+      if key.isEmpty {
+        continue
+      }
+
+      result[key] = value
+    }
+
+    return result
+  }  
 }
 
 extension Collection where Element == RemoteName {

Sources/tart/Commands/Run.swift

@@ -45,6 +45,23 @@ extension VZDiskImageSynchronizationMode {
   }
 }
 
+extension VZDiskImageCachingMode {
+  public init?(_ description: String) throws {
+    switch description {
+    case "automatic":
+      self = .automatic
+    case "cached":
+      self = .cached
+    case "uncached":
+      self = .uncached
+    case "":
+      return nil
+    default:
+      throw RuntimeError.VMConfigurationError("unsupported disk image caching mode: \"\(description)\"")
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
   static var configuration = CommandConfiguration(abstract: "Run a VM")
 
@@ -64,7 +81,7 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
   @Option(help: ArgumentHelp(
     "Attach an externally created serial console",
     discussion: "Alternative to `--serial` flag for programmatic integrations."
-  ))
+  ), completion: .file())
   var serialPath: String?
 
   @Flag(help: ArgumentHelp("Force open a UI window, even when VNC is enabled.", visibility: .private))
@@ -75,7 +92,7 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
 
   @Flag(help: ArgumentHelp(
     "Disable clipboard sharing between host and guest.",
-    discussion: "Only works with Linux-based guest operating systems."))
+    discussion: "Clipboard sharing requires spice-vdagent package on Linux and https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart-guest-agent on macOS."))
   var noClipboard: Bool = false
 
   #if arch(arm64)
@@ -100,7 +117,7 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
   var vncExperimental: Bool = false
 
   @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("""
-  Additional disk attachments with an optional read-only and synchronization options (e.g. --disk="disk.bin", --disk="ubuntu.iso:ro", --disk="/dev/disk0", --disk "ghcr.io/cirruslabs/xcode:16.0:ro" or --disk="nbd://localhost:10809/myDisk:sync=none")
+  Additional disk attachments with an optional read-only and synchronization options in the form of path[:options] (e.g. --disk="disk.bin", --disk="ubuntu.iso:ro", --disk="/dev/disk0", --disk "ghcr.io/cirruslabs/xcode:16.0:ro" or --disk="nbd://localhost:10809/myDisk:sync=none")
   """, discussion: """
   The disk attachment can be a:
 
@@ -121,8 +138,8 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
 
   To work around this pass TART_HOME explicitly:
 
-  sudo TART_HOME="$HOME/.tart" tart run sonoma --disk=/dev/disk0
-  """, valueName: "path[:options]"))
+  sudo TART_HOME="$HOME/.tart" tart run sequoia --disk=/dev/disk0
+  """, valueName: "path[:options]"), completion: .file())
   var disk: [String] = []
 
   #if arch(arm64)
@@ -141,7 +158,7 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
   #endif
   var rosettaTag: String?
 
-  @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Additional directory shares with an optional read-only and mount tag options (e.g. --dir=\"~/src/build\" or --dir=\"~/src/sources:ro\")", discussion: """
+  @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Additional directory shares with an optional read-only and mount tag options in the form of [name:]path[:options] (e.g. --dir=\"~/src/build\" or --dir=\"~/src/sources:ro\")", discussion: """
   Requires host to be macOS 13.0 (Ventura) or newer. macOS guests must be running macOS 13.0 (Ventura) or newer too.
 
   Options are comma-separated and are as follows:
@@ -153,9 +170,12 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
   Mount tag can be overridden by appending tag property to the directory share (e.g. --dir=\"~/src/build:tag=build\" or --dir=\"~/src/build:ro,tag=build\"). Then it can be mounted via "mount_virtiofs build ~/build" inside guest macOS and "mount -t virtiofs build ~/build" inside guest Linux.
 
   In case of passing multiple directories per mount tag it is required to prefix them with names e.g. --dir=\"build:~/src/build\" --dir=\"sources:~/src/sources:ro\". These names will be used as directory names under the mounting point inside guests. For the example above it will be "/Volumes/My Shared Files/build" and "/Volumes/My Shared Files/sources" respectively.
-  """, valueName: "[name:]path[:options]"))
+  """, valueName: "[name:]path[:options]"), completion: .directory)
   var dir: [String] = []
 
+  @Flag(help: ArgumentHelp("Enable nested virtualization if possible"))
+  var nested: Bool = false
+
   @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("""
   Use bridged networking instead of the default shared (NAT) networking \n(e.g. --net-bridged=en0 or --net-bridged=\"Wi-Fi\")
   """, discussion: """
@@ -163,17 +183,53 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
   """, valueName: "interface name"))
   var netBridged: [String] = []
 
-  @Flag(help: ArgumentHelp("Use software networking instead of the default shared (NAT) networking",
-                           discussion: "Learn how to configure Softnet for use with Tart here: https://github.com/cirruslabs/softnet"))
+  @Flag(help: ArgumentHelp("Use software networking provided by Softnet instead of the default shared (NAT) networking",
+                           discussion: """
+                           Softnet provides better network isolation and alleviates DHCP shortage on production systems. Tart invokes Softnet when this option is specified as a sub-process and communicates with it over socketpair(2).
+
+                           It is essentially a userspace packet filter which restricts the VM networking and prevents a class of security issues, such as ARP spoofing. By default, the VM will only be able to:
+
+                           * send traffic from its own MAC-address
+                           * send traffic from the IP-address assigned to it by the DHCP
+                           * send traffic to globally routable IPv4 addresses
+                           * send traffic to gateway IP of the vmnet bridge (this would normally be \"bridge100\" interface)
+                           * receive any incoming traffic
+
+                           In addition, Softnet tunes macOS built-in DHCP server to decrease its lease time from the default 86,400 seconds (one day) to 600 seconds (10 minutes). This is especially important when you use Tart to clone and run a lot of ephemeral VMs over a period of one day.
+
+                           More on Softnet here: https://github.com/cirruslabs/softnet
+                           """))
   var netSoftnet: Bool = false
 
-  @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Comma-separated list of CIDRs to allow the traffic to when using Softnet isolation\n(e.g. --net-softnet-allow=192.168.0.0/24)", valueName: "comma-separated CIDRs"))
+  @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Comma-separated list of CIDRs to allow the traffic to when using Softnet isolation\n(e.g. --net-softnet-allow=192.168.0.0/24)", discussion: """
+  This option allows you bypass the private IPv4 address space restrictions imposed by --net-softnet.
+
+  For example, you can allow the VM to communicate with the local network with e.g. --net-softnet-allow=10.0.0.0/16 or to completely disable the destination based restrictions with --net-softnet-allow=0.0.0.0/0.
+
+  Implies --net-softnet.
+  """, valueName: "comma-separated CIDRs"))
   var netSoftnetAllow: String?
 
+  @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Comma-separated list of TCP ports to expose (e.g. --net-softnet-expose 2222:22,8080:80)", discussion: """
+  Options are comma-separated and are as follows:
+
+  * EXTERNAL_PORT:INTERNAL_PORT — forward TCP traffic from the EXTERNAL_PORT on a host's egress interface (automatically detected and could be Wi-Fi, Ethernet and a VPN interface) to the INTERNAL_PORT on guest's IP (as reported by "tart ip")
+
+  Note that for the port forwarding to work correctly:
+
+  * the software in guest listening on INTERNAL_PORT should either listen on 0.0.0.0 or on an IP address assigned to that guest
+  * connection to the EXTERNAL_PORT should be performed from the local network that the host is attached to or from the internet, it's not possible to connect to that forwarded port from the host itself
+
+  Another thing to keep in mind is that regular Softnet restrictions will still apply even to port forwarding. So if you're planning to access your VM from local network, and your local network is 192.168.0.0/24, for example, then add --net-softnet-allow=192.168.0.0/24. If you only need port forwarding, to completely disable Softnet restrictions you can use --net-softnet-allow=0.0.0.0/0.
+
+  Implies --net-softnet.
+  """, valueName: "comma-separated port specifications"))
+  var netSoftnetExpose: String?
+
   @Flag(help: ArgumentHelp("Restrict network access to the host-only network"))
   var netHost: Bool = false
 
-  @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Set the root disk options (e.g. --root-disk-opts=\"ro\" or --root-disk-opts=\"sync=none\")",
+  @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Set the root disk options (e.g. --root-disk-opts=\"ro\" or --root-disk-opts=\"caching=cached,sync=none\")",
                              discussion: """
                              Options are comma-separated and are as follows:
 
@@ -184,6 +240,12 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
                              * sync=fsync — enable data synchronization with the permanent storage, but don't ensure that it was actually written (e.g. --root-disk-opts="sync=fsync")
 
                              * sync=full — enable data synchronization with the permanent storage and ensure that it was actually written (e.g. --root-disk-opts="sync=full")
+
+                             * caching=automatic — allows the virtualization framework to automatically determine whether to enable data caching
+
+                             * caching=cached — enabled data caching
+
+                             * caching=uncached — disables data caching
                              """, valueName: "options"))
   var rootDiskOpts: String = ""
 
@@ -198,12 +260,22 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
   #endif
   var captureSystemKeys: Bool = false
 
+  #if arch(arm64)
+    @Flag(help: ArgumentHelp("Don't add trackpad as a pointing device on macOS VMs"))
+  #endif
+  var noTrackpad: Bool = false
+
   mutating func validate() throws {
     if vnc && vncExperimental {
       throw ValidationError("--vnc and --vnc-experimental are mutually exclusive")
     }
 
-    // check that not more than one network option is specified
+    // Automatically enable --net-softnet when any of its related options are specified
+    if netSoftnetAllow != nil || netSoftnetExpose != nil {
+      netSoftnet = true
+    }
+
+    // Check that no more than one network option is specified
     var netFlags = 0
     if netBridged.count > 0 { netFlags += 1 }
     if netSoftnet { netFlags += 1 }
@@ -221,6 +293,14 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
       throw ValidationError("--captures-system-keys can only be used with the default VM view")
     }
 
+    if nested {
+      if #unavailable(macOS 15) {
+        throw ValidationError("Nested virtualization is supported on hosts starting with macOS 15 (Sequoia), and later.")
+      } else if !VZGenericPlatformConfiguration.isNestedVirtualizationSupported {
+        throw ValidationError("Nested virtualization is available for Mac with the M3 chip, and later.")
+      }
+    }
+
     let localStorage = VMStorageLocal()
     let vmDir = try localStorage.open(name)
     if try vmDir.state() == .Suspended {
@@ -232,8 +312,16 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
       if !(config.platform is PlatformSuspendable) {
         throw ValidationError("You can only suspend macOS VMs")
       }
-      if dir.count > 0 {
-        throw ValidationError("Suspending VMs with shared directories is not supported")
+
+      if noTrackpad {
+        throw ValidationError("--no-trackpad cannot be used with --suspendable")
+      }
+    }
+
+    if noTrackpad {
+      let config = try VMConfig.init(fromURL: vmDir.configURL)
+      if config.os != .darwin {
+        throw ValidationError("--no-trackpad can only be used with macOS VMs")
       }
     }
 
@@ -249,6 +337,12 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
     let localStorage = VMStorageLocal()
     let vmDir = try localStorage.open(name)
 
+    // Validate disk format support
+    let vmConfig = try VMConfig(fromURL: vmDir.configURL)
+    if !vmConfig.diskFormat.isSupported {
+      throw ValidationError("Disk format '\(vmConfig.diskFormat.rawValue)' is not supported on this system.")
+    }
+
     let storageLock = try FileLock(lockURL: Config().tartHomeDir)
     try storageLock.lock()
     // check if there is a running VM with the same MAC address
@@ -294,9 +388,12 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
       directorySharingDevices: directoryShares() + rosettaDirectoryShare(),
       serialPorts: serialPorts,
       suspendable: suspendable,
+      nested: nested,
       audio: !noAudio,
       clipboard: !noClipboard,
-      sync: VZDiskImageSynchronizationMode(diskOptions.syncModeRaw)
+      sync: VZDiskImageSynchronizationMode(diskOptions.syncModeRaw),
+      caching: VZDiskImageCachingMode(diskOptions.cachingModeRaw),
+      noTrackpad: noTrackpad
     )
 
     let vncImpl: VNC? = try {
@@ -387,6 +484,12 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
           }
         }
 
+        if #available(macOS 14, *) {
+          Task {
+            try await ControlSocket(vmDir.controlSocketURL).run()
+          }
+        }
+
         try await vm!.run()
 
         if let vncImpl = vncImpl {
@@ -460,8 +563,10 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
 
     let useVNCWithoutGraphics = (vnc || vncExperimental) && !graphics
     if noGraphics || useVNCWithoutGraphics {
-      // enter the main even loop, without bringing up any UI,
-      // and just wait for the VM to exit.
+      // Enter the main event loop without bringing up any UI,
+      // waiting for the VM to exit.
+      NSApplication.shared.setActivationPolicy(.prohibited)
+
       NSApplication.shared.run()
     } else {
       runUI(suspendable, captureSystemKeys)
@@ -489,6 +594,10 @@ struct Run: AsyncParsableCommand {
       softnetExtraArguments += ["--allow", netSoftnetAllow]
     }
 
+    if let netSoftnetExpose = netSoftnetExpose {
+      softnetExtraArguments += ["--expose", netSoftnetExpose]
+    }
+
     if netSoftnet {
       let config = try VMConfig.init(fromURL: vmDir.configURL)
 
@@ -617,7 +726,7 @@ struct MainApp: App {
   static var suspendable: Bool = false
   static var capturesSystemKeys: Bool = false
 
-  @NSApplicationDelegateAdaptor private var appDelegate: MinimalMenuAppDelegate
+  @NSApplicationDelegateAdaptor private var appDelegate: AppDelegate
 
   var body: some Scene {
     WindowGroup(vm!.name) {
@@ -673,18 +782,7 @@ struct MainApp: App {
   }
 }
 
-// The only way to fully remove Edit menu item.
-class MinimalMenuAppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate, ObservableObject {
-  let indexOfEditMenu = 2
-
-  func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ : Notification) {
-    NSApplication.shared.mainMenu?.removeItem(at: indexOfEditMenu)
-
-    let nsApp = NSApplication.shared
-    nsApp.setActivationPolicy(.regular)
-    nsApp.activate(ignoringOtherApps: true)
-  }
-
+class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate, ObservableObject {
   func applicationShouldTerminate(_ sender: NSApplication) -> NSApplication.TerminateReply {
     if (kill(getpid(), MainApp.suspendable ? SIGUSR1 : SIGINT) == 0) {
       return .terminateLater
@@ -737,12 +835,12 @@ struct VMView: NSViewRepresentable {
 
     machineView.capturesSystemKeys = capturesSystemKeys
 
-    // Enable automatic display reconfiguration
-    // for guests that support it
+    // If not specified, enable automatic display
+    // reconfiguration for guests that support it
     //
     // This is disabled for Linux because of poor HiDPI
     // support, which manifests in fonts being too small
-    if #available(macOS 14.0, *), vm.config.os != .linux {
+    if #available(macOS 14.0, *), vm.config.displayRefit ?? (vm.config.os != .linux) {
       machineView.automaticallyReconfiguresDisplay = true
     }
 
@@ -758,12 +856,12 @@ struct AdditionalDisk {
   let configuration: VZStorageDeviceConfiguration
 
   init(parseFrom: String) throws {
-    let (diskPath, readOnly, syncModeRaw) = Self.parseOptions(parseFrom)
+    let (diskPath, readOnly, syncModeRaw, cachingModeRaw) = Self.parseOptions(parseFrom)
 
-    self.configuration = try Self.craft(diskPath, readOnly: readOnly, syncModeRaw: syncModeRaw)
+    self.configuration = try Self.craft(diskPath, readOnly: readOnly, syncModeRaw: syncModeRaw, cachingModeRaw: cachingModeRaw)
   }
 
-  static func craft(_ diskPath: String, readOnly diskReadOnly: Bool, syncModeRaw: String) throws -> VZStorageDeviceConfiguration {
+  static func craft(_ diskPath: String, readOnly diskReadOnly: Bool, syncModeRaw: String, cachingModeRaw: String) throws -> VZStorageDeviceConfiguration {
     let diskURL = URL(string: diskPath)
 
     if (["nbd", "nbds", "nbd+unix", "nbds+unix"].contains(diskURL?.scheme)) {
@@ -840,14 +938,14 @@ struct AdditionalDisk {
     let diskImageAttachment = try VZDiskImageStorageDeviceAttachment(
       url: diskFileURL,
       readOnly: diskReadOnly,
-      cachingMode: .automatic,
+      cachingMode: try VZDiskImageCachingMode(cachingModeRaw) ?? .automatic,
       synchronizationMode: try VZDiskImageSynchronizationMode(syncModeRaw)
     )
 
     return VZVirtioBlockDeviceConfiguration(attachment: diskImageAttachment)
   }
 
-  static func parseOptions(_ parseFrom: String) -> (String, Bool, String) {
+  static func parseOptions(_ parseFrom: String) -> (String, Bool, String, String) {
     var arguments = parseFrom.split(separator: ":")
 
     let options = DiskOptions(String(arguments.last!))
@@ -855,13 +953,14 @@ struct AdditionalDisk {
       arguments.removeLast()
     }
 
-    return (arguments.joined(separator: ":"), options.readOnly, options.syncModeRaw)
+    return (arguments.joined(separator: ":"), options.readOnly, options.syncModeRaw, options.cachingModeRaw)
   }
 }
 
 struct DiskOptions {
   var readOnly: Bool = false
   var syncModeRaw: String = ""
+  var cachingModeRaw: String = ""
   var foundAtLeastOneOption: Bool = false
 
   init(_ parseFrom: String) {
@@ -875,6 +974,9 @@ struct DiskOptions {
       case option.hasPrefix("sync="):
         self.syncModeRaw = String(option.dropFirst("sync=".count))
         self.foundAtLeastOneOption = true
+      case option.hasPrefix("caching="):
+        self.cachingModeRaw = String(option.dropFirst("caching=".count))
+        self.foundAtLeastOneOption = true
       default:
         continue
       }
@@ -998,7 +1100,7 @@ struct DirectoryShare {
     process.standardInput = inPipe
     process.launch()
 
-    inPipe.fileHandleForWriting.write(response!.data)
+    try inPipe.fileHandleForWriting.write(contentsOf: response!.data)
     try inPipe.fileHandleForWriting.close()
     process.waitUntilExit()
 

Sources/tart/Commands/Set.swift

@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ struct Set: AsyncParsableCommand {
   @Option(help: "VM display resolution in a format of <width>x<height>. For example, 1200x800")
   var display: VMDisplayConfig?
 
+  @Flag(inversion: .prefixedNo, help: ArgumentHelp("Whether to automatically reconfigure the VM's display to fit the window"))
+  var displayRefit: Bool? = nil
+
   @Flag(help: ArgumentHelp("Generate a new random MAC address for the VM."))
   var randomMAC: Bool = false
 
@@ -30,15 +33,7 @@ struct Set: AsyncParsableCommand {
 
   @Option(help: ArgumentHelp("Resize the VMs disk to the specified size in GB (note that the disk size can only be increased to avoid losing data)",
                              discussion: """
-                             Disk resizing works on most cloud-ready Linux distributions out-of-the box (e.g. Ubuntu Cloud Images
-                             have the \"cloud-initramfs-growroot\" package installed that runs on boot) and on the rest of the
-                             distributions by running the \"growpart\" or \"resize2fs\" commands.
-
-                             For macOS, however, things are a bit more complicated: you need to remove the recovery partition
-                             first and then run various \"diskutil\" commands, see Tart's packer plugin source code for more
-                             details[1].
-
-                             [1]: https://github.com/cirruslabs/packer-plugin-tart/blob/main/builder/tart/step_disk_resize.go
+                             See https://tart.run/faq/#disk-resizing for more details.
                              """))
   var diskSize: UInt16?
 
@@ -63,13 +58,14 @@ struct Set: AsyncParsableCommand {
       }
     }
 
+    vmConfig.displayRefit = displayRefit
+
     if randomMAC {
       vmConfig.macAddress = VZMACAddress.randomLocallyAdministered()
     }
 
     #if arch(arm64)
-      if randomSerial {
-        let oldPlatform = vmConfig.platform as! Darwin
+      if randomSerial, let oldPlatform = vmConfig.platform as? Darwin {
         vmConfig.platform = Darwin(ecid: VZMacMachineIdentifier(), hardwareModel: oldPlatform.hardwareModel)
       }
     #endif

Sources/tart/ControlSocket.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+import Foundation
+import Network
+import os.log
+import NIO
+import NIOPosix
+
+@available(macOS 14, *)
+class ControlSocket {
+  let controlSocketURL: URL
+  let vmPort: UInt32
+  let eventLoopGroup = MultiThreadedEventLoopGroup(numberOfThreads: 1)
+  let logger: os.Logger = os.Logger(subsystem: "org.cirruslabs.tart.control-socket", category: "network")
+
+  init(_ controlSocketURL: URL, vmPort: UInt32 = 8080) {
+    self.controlSocketURL = controlSocketURL
+    self.vmPort = vmPort
+  }
+
+  func run() async throws {
+    // Remove control socket file from previous "tart run" invocations,
+    // if any, otherwise we may get the "address already in use" error
+    try? FileManager.default.removeItem(atPath: controlSocketURL.path())
+
+    let serverChannel = try await ServerBootstrap(group: eventLoopGroup)
+      .bind(unixDomainSocketPath: controlSocketURL.path()) { childChannel in
+        childChannel.eventLoop.makeCompletedFuture {
+          return try NIOAsyncChannel<ByteBuffer, ByteBuffer>(
+            wrappingChannelSynchronously: childChannel
+          )
+        }
+      }
+
+    try await withThrowingDiscardingTaskGroup { group in
+      try await serverChannel.executeThenClose { serverInbound in
+        for try await clientChannel in serverInbound {
+          group.addTask {
+            try await self.handleClient(clientChannel)
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  func handleClient(_ clientChannel: NIOAsyncChannel<ByteBuffer, ByteBuffer>) async throws {
+    self.logger.info("received new control socket connection from a client")
+
+    try await clientChannel.executeThenClose { clientInbound, clientOutbound in
+      self.logger.info("dialing to VM on port \(self.vmPort)...")
+
+      do {
+        guard let vmConnection = try await vm?.connect(toPort: self.vmPort) else {
+          throw RuntimeError.VMSocketFailed(self.vmPort, "VM is not running")
+        }
+
+        self.logger.info("running control socket proxy")
+
+        let vmChannel = try await ClientBootstrap(group: eventLoopGroup).withConnectedSocket(vmConnection.fileDescriptor) { childChannel in
+          childChannel.eventLoop.makeCompletedFuture {
+            try NIOAsyncChannel<ByteBuffer, ByteBuffer>(
+              wrappingChannelSynchronously: childChannel
+            )
+          }
+        }
+
+        try await vmChannel.executeThenClose { (vmInbound, vmOutbound) in
+          try await withThrowingDiscardingTaskGroup { group in
+            // Proxy data from a client (e.g. "tart exec") to a VM
+            group.addTask {
+              for try await message in clientInbound {
+                try await vmOutbound.write(message)
+              }
+            }
+
+            // Proxy data from a VM to a client (e.g. "tart exec")
+            group.addTask {
+              for try await message in vmInbound {
+                try await clientOutbound.write(message)
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        }
+
+        self.logger.info("control socket client disconnected")
+      } catch (let error) {
+        self.logger.error("control socket connection failed: \(error)")
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}

Sources/tart/Credentials/DockerConfigCredentialsProvider.swift

@@ -36,7 +36,11 @@ class DockerConfigCredentialsProvider: CredentialsProvider {
 
     process.launch()
 
-    inPipe.fileHandleForWriting.write("\(host)\n".data(using: .utf8)!)
+    do {
+      try inPipe.fileHandleForWriting.write(contentsOf: "\(host)\n".data(using: .utf8)!)
+    } catch {
+      throw CredentialsProviderError.Failed(message: "Failed to write host to Docker helper!")
+    }
     inPipe.fileHandleForWriting.closeFile()
 
     let outputData = try outPipe.fileHandleForReading.readToEnd()

Sources/tart/DiskImageFormat.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import Foundation
+import ArgumentParser
+
+enum DiskImageFormat: String, CaseIterable, Codable {
+  case raw = "raw"
+  case asif = "asif"
+
+  var displayName: String {
+    switch self {
+    case .raw:
+      return "RAW"
+    case .asif:
+      return "ASIF (Apple Sparse Image Format)"
+    }
+  }
+
+
+  /// Check if the format is supported on the current system
+  var isSupported: Bool {
+    switch self {
+    case .raw:
+      return true
+    case .asif:
+      if #available(macOS 15, *) {
+        return true
+      } else {
+        return false
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+
+}
+
+extension DiskImageFormat: ExpressibleByArgument {
+  init?(argument: String) {
+    self.init(rawValue: argument.lowercased())
+  }
+
+  static var allValueStrings: [String] {
+    return allCases.map { $0.rawValue }
+  }
+}

Sources/tart/Fetcher.swift

@@ -1,69 +1,6 @@
 import Foundation
-import AsyncAlgorithms
 
-fileprivate let urlSession = createURLSession()
-
-class DownloadDelegate: NSObject, URLSessionTaskDelegate {
-  let progress: Progress
-  init(_ progress: Progress) throws {
-    self.progress = progress
-  }
-
-  func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, didCreateTask task: URLSessionTask) {
-    self.progress.addChild(task.progress, withPendingUnitCount: self.progress.totalUnitCount)
-  }
-}
-
-class Fetcher {
-  static func fetch(_ request: URLRequest, viaFile: Bool = false, progress: Progress? = nil) async throws -> (AsyncThrowingChannel<Data, Error>, HTTPURLResponse) {
-    let delegate = progress != nil ? try DownloadDelegate(progress!) : nil
-
-    if viaFile {
-      return try await fetchViaFile(request, delegate: delegate)
-    }
-
-    return try await fetchViaMemory(request, delegate: delegate)
-  }
-
-  private static func fetchViaMemory(_ request: URLRequest, delegate: URLSessionTaskDelegate? = nil) async throws -> (AsyncThrowingChannel<Data, Error>, HTTPURLResponse) {
-    let dataCh = AsyncThrowingChannel<Data, Error>()
-
-    let (data, response) = try await urlSession.data(for: request, delegate: delegate)
-
-    Task {
-      await dataCh.send(data)
-
-      dataCh.finish()
-    }
-
-    return (dataCh, response as! HTTPURLResponse)
-  }
-
-  private static func fetchViaFile(_ request: URLRequest, delegate: URLSessionTaskDelegate? = nil) async throws -> (AsyncThrowingChannel<Data, Error>, HTTPURLResponse) {
-    let dataCh = AsyncThrowingChannel<Data, Error>()
-
-    let (fileURL, response) = try await urlSession.download(for: request, delegate: delegate)
-
-    // Acquire a handle to the downloaded file and then remove it.
-    //
-    // This keeps a working reference to that file, yet we don't
-    // have to deal with the cleanup any more.
-    let mappedFile = try Data(contentsOf: fileURL, options: [.alwaysMapped])
-    try FileManager.default.removeItem(at: fileURL)
-
-    Task {
-      for chunk in (0 ..< mappedFile.count).chunks(ofCount: 64 * 1024 * 1024) {
-        await dataCh.send(mappedFile.subdata(in: chunk))
-      }
-
-      dataCh.finish()
-    }
-
-    return (dataCh, response as! HTTPURLResponse)
-  }
-}
-
-fileprivate func createURLSession() -> URLSession {
+fileprivate var urlSession: URLSession = {
   let config = URLSessionConfiguration.default
 
   // Harbor expects a CSRF token to be present if the HTTP client
@@ -77,4 +14,84 @@ fileprivate func createURLSession() -> URLSession {
   config.httpShouldSetCookies = false
 
   return URLSession(configuration: config)
+}()
+
+class Fetcher {
+  static func fetch(_ request: URLRequest, viaFile: Bool = false) async throws -> (AsyncThrowingStream<Data, Error>, HTTPURLResponse) {
+    let task = urlSession.dataTask(with: request)
+
+    let delegate = Delegate()
+    task.delegate = delegate
+
+    let stream = AsyncThrowingStream<Data, Error> { continuation in
+      delegate.streamContinuation = continuation
+    }
+
+    let response = try await withCheckedThrowingContinuation { continuation in
+      delegate.responseContinuation = continuation
+      task.resume()
+    }
+
+    return (stream, response as! HTTPURLResponse)
+  }
+}
+
+fileprivate class Delegate: NSObject, URLSessionDataDelegate {
+  var responseContinuation: CheckedContinuation<URLResponse, Error>?
+  var streamContinuation: AsyncThrowingStream<Data, Error>.Continuation?
+
+  private var buffer: Data = Data()
+  private let bufferFlushSize = 16 * 1024 * 1024
+
+  func urlSession(
+    _ session: URLSession,
+    dataTask: URLSessionDataTask,
+    didReceive response: URLResponse,
+    completionHandler: @escaping (URLSession.ResponseDisposition) -> Void
+  ) {
+    // Soft-limit for the maximum buffer capacity
+    let capacity = min(response.expectedContentLength, Int64(bufferFlushSize))
+
+    // Pre-initialize buffer as we now know the capacity
+    buffer = Data(capacity: Int(capacity))
+
+    responseContinuation?.resume(returning: response)
+    responseContinuation = nil
+    completionHandler(.allow)
+  }
+
+  func urlSession(
+    _ session: URLSession,
+    dataTask: URLSessionDataTask,
+    didReceive data: Data
+  ) {
+    buffer.append(data)
+
+    if buffer.count >= bufferFlushSize {
+      streamContinuation?.yield(buffer)
+      buffer.removeAll(keepingCapacity: true)
+    }
+  }
+
+  func urlSession(
+    _ session: URLSession,
+    task: URLSessionTask,
+    didCompleteWithError error: Error?
+  ) {
+    if let error = error {
+      responseContinuation?.resume(throwing: error)
+      responseContinuation = nil
+
+      streamContinuation?.finish(throwing: error)
+      streamContinuation = nil
+    } else {
+      if !buffer.isEmpty {
+        streamContinuation?.yield(buffer)
+        buffer.removeAll(keepingCapacity: true)
+      }
+
+      streamContinuation?.finish()
+      streamContinuation = nil
+    }
+  }
 }

Sources/tart/MACAddressResolver/AgentResolver.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import Foundation
+import Network
+import NIOPosix
+import GRPC
+import Cirruslabs_TartGuestAgent_Apple_Swift
+import Cirruslabs_TartGuestAgent_Grpc_Swift
+
+class AgentResolver {
+  static func ResolveIP(_ controlSocketURL: URL) async throws -> IPv4Address? {
+    do {
+      return try await resolveIP(controlSocketURL)
+    } catch let error as GRPCConnectionPoolError {
+      return nil
+    }
+  }
+
+  private static func resolveIP(_ controlSocketURL: URL) async throws -> IPv4Address? {
+    // Create a gRPC channel connected to the VM's control socket
+    let group = MultiThreadedEventLoopGroup(numberOfThreads: 1)
+    defer {
+      try! group.syncShutdownGracefully()
+    }
+
+    let channel = try GRPCChannelPool.with(
+      target: .unixDomainSocket(controlSocketURL.path()),
+      transportSecurity: .plaintext,
+      eventLoopGroup: group,
+    )
+    defer {
+      try! channel.close().wait()
+    }
+
+    // Invoke ResolveIP() gRPC method
+    let callOptions = CallOptions(timeLimit: .timeout(.seconds(1)))
+    let agentAsyncClient = AgentAsyncClient(channel: channel)
+    let resolveIPCall = agentAsyncClient.makeResolveIpCall(ResolveIPRequest(), callOptions: callOptions)
+
+    let response = try await resolveIPCall.response
+
+    return IPv4Address(response.ip)
+  }
+}

Sources/tart/OCI/Layerizer/DiskV1.swift

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class DiskV1: Disk {
     // Decompress the layers onto the disk in a single stream
     let filter = try OutputFilter(.decompress, using: .lz4, bufferCapacity: Self.bufferSizeBytes) { data in
       if let data = data {
-        disk.write(data)
+        try disk.write(contentsOf: data)
       }
     }
 

Sources/tart/OCI/Layerizer/DiskV2.swift

@@ -7,6 +7,21 @@ class DiskV2: Disk {
   private static let bufferSizeBytes = 4 * 1024 * 1024
   private static let layerLimitBytes = 512 * 1024 * 1024
 
+  // A zero chunk for faster than byte-by-byte comparisons
+  //
+  // Assumes that the other Data(...) is equal in size, but it's fine to get a false-negative
+  // on the last block since it costs only 4 MiB of excess data per 512 MiB layer.
+  //
+  // Some simple benchmarks ("sync && sudo purge" command was used to negate the disk caching effects):
+  // +--------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
+  // | Operation                            | time(1) result                                    |
+  // +--------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
+  // | Data(...) == zeroChunk               | 2.16s user 11.71s system 73% cpu 18.928 total     |
+  // | Data(...).contains(where: {$0 != 0}) | 603.68s user 12.97s system 99% cpu 10:22.85 total |
+  // +--------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
+  private static let holeGranularityBytes = 4 * 1024 * 1024
+  private static let zeroChunk = Data(count: holeGranularityBytes)
+
   static func push(diskURL: URL, registry: Registry, chunkSizeMb: Int, concurrency: UInt, progress: Progress) async throws -> [OCIManifestLayer] {
     var pushedLayers: [(index: Int, pushedLayer: OCIManifestLayer)] = []
 
@@ -29,7 +44,7 @@ class DiskV2: Disk {
           let compressedData = try (data as NSData).compressed(using: .lz4) as Data
           let compressedDataDigest = Digest.hash(compressedData)
 
-          try await retry(maxAttempts: 5, backoff: .exponentialWithFullJitter(baseDelay: .seconds(5), maxDelay: .seconds(60))) {
+          try await retry(maxAttempts: 5) {
             if try await !registry.blobExists(compressedDataDigest) {
               _ = try await registry.pushBlob(fromData: compressedData, chunkSizeMb: chunkSizeMb, digest: compressedDataDigest)
             }
@@ -193,11 +208,26 @@ class DiskV2: Disk {
             diskWritingOffset = try zeroSkippingWrite(disk, rdisk, fsBlockSize, diskWritingOffset, data)
           }
 
-          try await registry.pullBlob(diskLayer.digest) { data in
-            try filter.write(data)
+          var rangeStart: Int64 = 0
 
-            // Update the progress
-            progress.completedUnitCount += Int64(data.count)
+          try await retry(maxAttempts: 5) {
+            try await registry.pullBlob(diskLayer.digest, rangeStart: rangeStart) { data in
+              try filter.write(data)
+
+              // Update the progress
+              progress.completedUnitCount += Int64(data.count)
+
+              // Update the current range start
+              rangeStart += Int64(data.count)
+            }
+          } recoverFromFailure: { error in
+            if error is URLError {
+              print("Error pulling disk layer \(index + 1): \"\(error.localizedDescription)\", attempting to re-try...")
+
+              return .retry
+            }
+
+            return .throw
           }
 
           try filter.finalize()
@@ -215,22 +245,6 @@ class DiskV2: Disk {
   }
 
   private static func zeroSkippingWrite(_ disk: FileHandle, _ rdisk: FileHandle?, _ fsBlockSize: UInt64, _ offset: UInt64, _ data: Data) throws -> UInt64 {
-    let holeGranularityBytes = 64 * 1024
-
-    // A zero chunk for faster than byte-by-byte comparisons
-    //
-    // Assumes that the other Data(...) is equal in size, but it's fine to get a false-negative
-    // on the last block since it costs only 64 KiB of excess data per 500 MB layer.
-    //
-    // Some simple benchmarks ("sync && sudo purge" command was used to negate the disk caching effects):
-    // +--------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
-    // | Operation                            | time(1) result                                    |
-    // +--------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
-    // | Data(...) == zeroChunk               | 2.16s user 11.71s system 73% cpu 18.928 total     |
-    // | Data(...).contains(where: {$0 != 0}) | 603.68s user 12.97s system 99% cpu 10:22.85 total |
-    // +--------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
-    let zeroChunk = Data(count: holeGranularityBytes)
-
     var offset = offset
 
     for chunk in data.chunks(ofCount: holeGranularityBytes) {
@@ -254,7 +268,7 @@ class DiskV2: Disk {
 
           if chunk != actualContentsOnDisk {
             try disk.seek(toOffset: offset)
-            disk.write(chunk)
+            try disk.write(contentsOf: chunk)
           }
         }
 
@@ -268,7 +282,7 @@ class DiskV2: Disk {
       // is zeroed via truncate(2)
       if chunk != zeroChunk {
         try disk.seek(toOffset: offset)
-        disk.write(chunk)
+        try disk.write(contentsOf: chunk)
       }
 
       offset += UInt64(chunk.count)

Sources/tart/OCI/Manifest.swift

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ let nvramMediaType = "application/vnd.cirruslabs.tart.nvram.v1"
 let uncompressedDiskSizeAnnotation = "org.cirruslabs.tart.uncompressed-disk-size"
 let uploadTimeAnnotation = "org.cirruslabs.tart.upload-time"
 
+// Manifest labels
+let diskFormatLabel = "org.cirruslabs.tart.disk.format"
+
 // Layer annotations
 let uncompressedSizeAnnotation = "org.cirruslabs.tart.uncompressed-size"
 let uncompressedContentDigestAnnotation = "org.cirruslabs.tart.uncompressed-content-digest"
@@ -66,6 +69,11 @@ struct OCIManifest: Codable, Equatable {
 struct OCIConfig: Codable {
   var architecture: Architecture = .arm64
   var os: OS = .darwin
+  var config: ConfigContainer?
+
+  struct ConfigContainer: Codable {
+    var Labels: [String: String]?
+  }
 
   func toJSON() throws -> Data {
     try Config.jsonEncoder().encode(self)

Sources/tart/OCI/Registry.swift

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import Foundation
 import Algorithms
-import AsyncAlgorithms
 
 enum RegistryError: Error {
   case UnexpectedHTTPStatusCode(when: String, code: Int, details: String = "")
@@ -21,6 +20,7 @@ enum HTTPCode: Int {
   case Ok = 200
   case Created = 201
   case Accepted = 202
+  case PartialContent = 206
   case Unauthorized = 401
   case NotFound = 404
 }
@@ -29,14 +29,26 @@ extension Data {
   func asText() -> String {
     String(decoding: self, as: UTF8.self)
   }
+
+  func asTextPreview(limit: Int = 1000) -> String {
+    guard count > limit else {
+      return asText()
+    }
+
+    return "\(asText().prefix(limit))..."
+  }
 }
 
-extension AsyncThrowingChannel<Data, Error> {
-  func asData() async throws -> Data {
+extension AsyncThrowingStream<Data, Error> {
+  func asData(limitBytes: Int64? = nil) async throws -> Data {
     var result = Data()
 
     for try await chunk in self {
       result += chunk
+
+      if let limitBytes, result.count > limitBytes {
+        return result
+      }
     }
 
     return result
@@ -160,7 +172,7 @@ class Registry {
                                                  body: manifestJSON)
     if response.statusCode != HTTPCode.Created.rawValue {
       throw RegistryError.UnexpectedHTTPStatusCode(when: "pushing manifest", code: response.statusCode,
-                                                   details: data.asText())
+                                                   details: data.asTextPreview())
     }
 
     return Digest.hash(manifestJSON)
@@ -171,7 +183,7 @@ class Registry {
                                                  headers: ["Accept": ociManifestMediaType])
     if response.statusCode != HTTPCode.Ok.rawValue {
       throw RegistryError.UnexpectedHTTPStatusCode(when: "pulling manifest", code: response.statusCode,
-                                                   details: data.asText())
+                                                   details: data.asTextPreview())
     }
 
     let manifest = try OCIManifest(fromJSON: data)
@@ -197,7 +209,7 @@ class Registry {
                                                      headers: ["Content-Length": "0"])
     if postResponse.statusCode != HTTPCode.Accepted.rawValue {
       throw RegistryError.UnexpectedHTTPStatusCode(when: "pushing blob (POST)", code: postResponse.statusCode,
-                                                   details: data.asText())
+                                                   details: data.asTextPreview())
     }
 
     // Figure out where to upload the blob
@@ -218,7 +230,7 @@ class Registry {
       )
       if response.statusCode != HTTPCode.Created.rawValue {
         throw RegistryError.UnexpectedHTTPStatusCode(when: "pushing blob (PUT) to \(uploadLocation)",
-                                                     code: response.statusCode, details: data.asText())
+                                                     code: response.statusCode, details: data.asTextPreview())
       }
       return digest
     }
@@ -241,7 +253,7 @@ class Registry {
       // always accept both statuses since AWS ECR is not following specification
       if response.statusCode != HTTPCode.Created.rawValue && response.statusCode != HTTPCode.Accepted.rawValue {
         throw RegistryError.UnexpectedHTTPStatusCode(when: "streaming blob to \(uploadLocation)",
-                                                     code: response.statusCode, details: data.asText())
+                                                     code: response.statusCode, details: data.asTextPreview())
       }
       uploadedBytes += chunk.count
       // Update location for the next chunk
@@ -260,14 +272,26 @@ class Registry {
     case HTTPCode.NotFound.rawValue:
       return false
     default:
-      throw RegistryError.UnexpectedHTTPStatusCode(when: "checking blob", code: response.statusCode, details: data.asText())
+      throw RegistryError.UnexpectedHTTPStatusCode(when: "checking blob", code: response.statusCode, details: data.asTextPreview())
     }
   }
 
-  public func pullBlob(_ digest: String, handler: (Data) async throws -> Void) async throws {
-    let (channel, response) = try await channelRequest(.GET, endpointURL("\(namespace)/blobs/\(digest)"), viaFile: true)
-    if response.statusCode != HTTPCode.Ok.rawValue {
-      let body = try await channel.asData().asText()
+  public func pullBlob(_ digest: String, rangeStart: Int64 = 0, handler: (Data) async throws -> Void) async throws {
+    var expectedStatusCode = HTTPCode.Ok
+    var headers: [String: String] = [:]
+
+    // Send Range header and expect HTTP 206 in return
+    //
+    // However, do not send Range header at all when rangeStart is 0,
+    // because it makes no sense and we might get HTTP 200 in return
+    if rangeStart != 0 {
+      expectedStatusCode = HTTPCode.PartialContent
+      headers["Range"] = "bytes=\(rangeStart)-"
+    }
+
+    let (channel, response) = try await channelRequest(.GET, endpointURL("\(namespace)/blobs/\(digest)"), headers: headers, viaFile: true)
+    if response.statusCode != expectedStatusCode.rawValue {
+      let body = try await channel.asData(limitBytes: 4096).asTextPreview()
       throw RegistryError.UnexpectedHTTPStatusCode(when: "pulling blob", code: response.statusCode,
                                                    details: body)
     }
@@ -307,7 +331,7 @@ class Registry {
     body: Data? = nil,
     doAuth: Bool = true,
     viaFile: Bool = false
-  ) async throws -> (AsyncThrowingChannel<Data, Error>, HTTPURLResponse) {
+  ) async throws -> (AsyncThrowingStream<Data, Error>, HTTPURLResponse) {
     var urlComponents = urlComponents
 
     if urlComponents.queryItems == nil && !parameters.isEmpty {
@@ -330,7 +354,6 @@ class Registry {
     var (channel, response) = try await authAwareRequest(request: request, viaFile: viaFile, doAuth: doAuth)
 
     if doAuth && response.statusCode == HTTPCode.Unauthorized.rawValue {
-      _ = try await channel.asData()
       try await auth(response: response)
       (channel, response) = try await authAwareRequest(request: request, viaFile: viaFile, doAuth: doAuth)
     }
@@ -392,7 +415,7 @@ class Registry {
     let (data, response) = try await dataRequest(.GET, authenticateURL, headers: headers, doAuth: false)
     if response.statusCode != HTTPCode.Ok.rawValue {
       throw RegistryError.AuthFailed(why: "received unexpected HTTP status code \(response.statusCode) "
-        + "while retrieving an authentication token", details: data.asText())
+        + "while retrieving an authentication token", details: data.asTextPreview())
     }
 
     await authenticationKeeper.set(try TokenResponse.parse(fromData: data))
@@ -413,7 +436,7 @@ class Registry {
     return nil
   }
 
-  private func authAwareRequest(request: URLRequest, viaFile: Bool = false, doAuth: Bool) async throws -> (AsyncThrowingChannel<Data, Error>, HTTPURLResponse) {
+  private func authAwareRequest(request: URLRequest, viaFile: Bool = false, doAuth: Bool) async throws -> (AsyncThrowingStream<Data, Error>, HTTPURLResponse) {
     var request = request
 
     if doAuth {

Sources/tart/Platform/Darwin.swift

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ struct UnsupportedHostOSError: Error, CustomStringConvertible {
         throw DecodingError.dataCorruptedError(forKey: .hardwareModel, in: container, debugDescription: "")
       }
       guard let hardwareModel = VZMacHardwareModel.init(dataRepresentation: data) else {
-        throw DecodingError.dataCorruptedError(forKey: .hardwareModel, in: container, debugDescription: "")
+        throw UnsupportedHostOSError()
       }
       self.hardwareModel = hardwareModel
     }
@@ -58,7 +58,11 @@ struct UnsupportedHostOSError: Error, CustomStringConvertible {
       VZMacOSBootLoader()
     }
 
-    func platform(nvramURL: URL) throws -> VZPlatformConfiguration {
+    func platform(nvramURL: URL, needsNestedVirtualization: Bool) throws -> VZPlatformConfiguration {
+      if needsNestedVirtualization {
+        throw RuntimeError.VMConfigurationError("macOS virtual machines do not support nested virtualization")
+      }
+
       let result = VZMacPlatformConfiguration()
 
       result.machineIdentifier = ecid
@@ -123,6 +127,11 @@ struct UnsupportedHostOSError: Error, CustomStringConvertible {
       [VZUSBScreenCoordinatePointingDeviceConfiguration(), VZMacTrackpadConfiguration()]
     }
 
+    func pointingDevicesSimplified() -> [VZPointingDeviceConfiguration] {
+      // Only include the USB pointing device, not the trackpad
+      return [VZUSBScreenCoordinatePointingDeviceConfiguration()]
+    }
+
     func pointingDevicesSuspendable() -> [VZPointingDeviceConfiguration] {
       if #available(macOS 14, *) {
         return [VZMacTrackpadConfiguration()]

Sources/tart/Platform/Linux.swift

@@ -14,8 +14,12 @@ struct Linux: Platform {
     return result
   }
 
-  func platform(nvramURL: URL) throws -> VZPlatformConfiguration {
-    VZGenericPlatformConfiguration()
+  func platform(nvramURL: URL, needsNestedVirtualization: Bool) throws -> VZPlatformConfiguration {
+    let config = VZGenericPlatformConfiguration()
+    if #available(macOS 15, *) {
+      config.isNestedVirtualizationEnabled = needsNestedVirtualization
+    }
+    return config
   }
 
   func graphicsDevice(vmConfig: VMConfig) -> VZGraphicsDeviceConfiguration {
@@ -38,4 +42,9 @@ struct Linux: Platform {
   func pointingDevices() -> [VZPointingDeviceConfiguration] {
     [VZUSBScreenCoordinatePointingDeviceConfiguration()]
   }
+
+  func pointingDevicesSimplified() -> [VZPointingDeviceConfiguration] {
+    // Linux doesn't support trackpad, so just return the regular pointing devices
+    return pointingDevices()
+  }
 }

Sources/tart/Platform/Platform.swift

@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@ import Virtualization
 protocol Platform: Codable {
   func os() -> OS
   func bootLoader(nvramURL: URL) throws -> VZBootLoader
-  func platform(nvramURL: URL) throws -> VZPlatformConfiguration
+  func platform(nvramURL: URL, needsNestedVirtualization: Bool) throws -> VZPlatformConfiguration
   func graphicsDevice(vmConfig: VMConfig) -> VZGraphicsDeviceConfiguration
   func keyboards() -> [VZKeyboardConfiguration]
   func pointingDevices() -> [VZPointingDeviceConfiguration]
+  func pointingDevicesSimplified() -> [VZPointingDeviceConfiguration]
 }
 
 protocol PlatformSuspendable: Platform {

Sources/tart/Root.swift

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ struct Root: AsyncParsableCommand {
       Login.self,
       Logout.self,
       IP.self,
+      Exec.self,
       Pull.self,
       Push.self,
       Import.self,
@@ -30,39 +31,6 @@ struct Root: AsyncParsableCommand {
     ])
 
   public static func main() async throws {
-    // Initialize Sentry
-    if let dsn = ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment["SENTRY_DSN"] {
-      SentrySDK.start { options in
-        options.dsn = dsn
-        options.releaseName = CI.release
-        options.tracesSampleRate = Float(
-          ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment["SENTRY_TRACES_SAMPLE_RATE"] ?? "1.0"
-        ) as NSNumber?
-
-        // By default only 5XX are captured
-        // Let's capture everything but 401 (unauthorized)
-        options.enableCaptureFailedRequests = true
-        options.failedRequestStatusCodes = [
-          HttpStatusCodeRange(min: 400, max: 400),
-          HttpStatusCodeRange(min: 402, max: 599)
-        ]
-      }
-    }
-    defer { SentrySDK.flush(timeout: 2.seconds.timeInterval) }
-
-    SentrySDK.configureScope { scope in
-      scope.setExtra(value: ProcessInfo.processInfo.arguments, key: "Command-line arguments")
-    }
-
-    // Enrich future events with Cirrus CI-specific tags
-    if let tags = ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment["CIRRUS_SENTRY_TAGS"] {
-      SentrySDK.configureScope { scope in
-        for (key, value) in tags.split(separator: ",").compactMap({ parseCirrusSentryTag($0) }) {
-          scope.setTag(value: value, key: key)
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
     // Add commands that are only available on specific macOS versions
     if #available(macOS 14, *) {
       configuration.subcommands.append(Suspend.self)
@@ -82,10 +50,43 @@ struct Root: AsyncParsableCommand {
     // Set line-buffered output for stdout
     setlinebuf(stdout)
 
-    // Parse and run command
     do {
+      // Parse command
       var command = try parseAsRoot()
 
+      // Initialize Sentry
+      if let dsn = ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment["SENTRY_DSN"] {
+        SentrySDK.start { options in
+          options.dsn = dsn
+          options.releaseName = CI.release
+          options.tracesSampleRate = Float(
+            ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment["SENTRY_TRACES_SAMPLE_RATE"] ?? "1.0"
+          ) as NSNumber?
+
+          // By default only 5XX are captured
+          // Let's capture everything but 401 (unauthorized)
+          options.enableCaptureFailedRequests = true
+          options.failedRequestStatusCodes = [
+            HttpStatusCodeRange(min: 400, max: 400),
+            HttpStatusCodeRange(min: 402, max: 599)
+          ]
+        }
+      }
+      defer { SentrySDK.flush(timeout: 2.seconds.timeInterval) }
+
+      SentrySDK.configureScope { scope in
+        scope.setExtra(value: ProcessInfo.processInfo.arguments, key: "Command-line arguments")
+      }
+
+      // Enrich future events with Cirrus CI-specific tags
+      if let tags = ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment["CIRRUS_SENTRY_TAGS"] {
+        SentrySDK.configureScope { scope in
+          for (key, value) in tags.split(separator: ",").compactMap({ parseCirrusSentryTag($0) }) {
+            scope.setTag(value: value, key: key)
+          }
+        }
+      }
+
       // Run garbage-collection before each command (shouldn't take too long)
       if type(of: command) != type(of: Pull()) && type(of: command) != type(of: Clone()){
         do {
@@ -95,12 +96,18 @@ struct Root: AsyncParsableCommand {
         }
       }
 
+      // Run command
       if var asyncCommand = command as? AsyncParsableCommand {
         try await asyncCommand.run()
       } else {
         try command.run()
       }
     } catch {
+      // Not an error, just a custom exit code from "tart exec"
+      if let execCustomExitCodeError = error as? ExecCustomExitCodeError {
+        Foundation.exit(execCustomExitCodeError.exitCode)
+      }
+
       // Capture the error into Sentry
       SentrySDK.capture(error: error)
       SentrySDK.flush(timeout: 2.seconds.timeInterval)

Sources/tart/ShellCompletions/ShellCompletions.swift

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ fileprivate func normalizeName(_ name: String) -> String {
   return name.replacingOccurrences(of: ":", with: "\\:")
 }
 
-func completeMachines(_ arguments: [String]) -> [String] {
+func completeMachines(_ arguments: [String], _ argumentIdx: Int, _ argumentPrefix: String) -> [String] {
   let localVMs = (try? VMStorageLocal().list().map { name, _ in
     normalizeName(name)
   }) ?? []
@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ func completeMachines(_ arguments: [String]) -> [String] {
   return (localVMs + ociVMs)
 }
 
-func completeLocalMachines(_ arguments: [String]) -> [String] {
+func completeLocalMachines(_ arguments: [String], _ argumentIdx: Int, _ argumentPrefix: String) -> [String] {
   let localVMs = (try? VMStorageLocal().list()) ?? []
   return localVMs.map { name, _ in normalizeName(name) }
 }
 
-func completeRunningMachines(_ arguments: [String]) -> [String] {
+func completeRunningMachines(_ arguments: [String], _ argumentIdx: Int, _ argumentPrefix: String) -> [String] {
   let localVMs = (try? VMStorageLocal().list()) ?? []
   return localVMs
     .filter { _, vmDir in (try? vmDir.state() == .Running) ?? false}

Sources/tart/Term.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+import Foundation
+import System
+
+struct State {
+  fileprivate let termios: termios
+}
+
+class Term {
+  static func IsTerminal() -> Bool {
+    var termios = termios()
+
+    return tcgetattr(FileHandle.standardInput.fileDescriptor, &termios) != -1
+  }
+
+  static func MakeRaw() throws -> State {
+    var termiosOrig = termios()
+
+    var ret = tcgetattr(FileHandle.standardInput.fileDescriptor, &termiosOrig)
+    if ret == -1 {
+      let details = Errno(rawValue: CInt(errno))
+
+      throw RuntimeError.TerminalOperationFailed("failed to retrieve terminal parameters: \(details)")
+    }
+
+    var termiosRaw = termiosOrig
+    cfmakeraw(&termiosRaw)
+
+    ret = tcsetattr(FileHandle.standardInput.fileDescriptor, TCSANOW, &termiosRaw)
+    if ret == -1 {
+      let details = Errno(rawValue: CInt(errno))
+
+      throw RuntimeError.TerminalOperationFailed("failed to set terminal parameters: \(details)")
+    }
+
+    return State(termios: termiosOrig)
+  }
+
+  static func Restore(_ state: State) throws {
+    var termios = state.termios
+
+    let ret = tcsetattr(FileHandle.standardInput.fileDescriptor, TCSANOW, &termios)
+    if ret == -1 {
+      let details = Errno(rawValue: CInt(errno))
+
+      throw RuntimeError.TerminalOperationFailed("failed to set terminal parameters: \(details)")
+    }
+  }
+
+  static func GetSize() throws -> (width: UInt16, height: UInt16) {
+    var winsize = winsize()
+
+    guard ioctl(STDOUT_FILENO, TIOCGWINSZ, &winsize) != -1 else {
+      let details = Errno(rawValue: CInt(errno))
+
+      throw RuntimeError.TerminalOperationFailed("failed to get terminal size: \(details)")
+    }
+
+    return (width: winsize.ws_col, height: winsize.ws_row)
+  }
+}

Sources/tart/URL+AccessDate.swift

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import Foundation
+import System
 
 extension URL {
   func accessDate() throws -> Date {
@@ -13,7 +14,9 @@ extension URL {
     let times = [accessDate.asTimeval(), modificationDate.asTimeval()]
     let ret = utimes(path, times)
     if ret != 0 {
-      throw RuntimeError.FailedToUpdateAccessDate("utimes(2) failed: \(ret.explanation())")
+      let details = Errno(rawValue: CInt(errno))
+
+      throw RuntimeError.FailedToUpdateAccessDate("utimes(2) failed: \(details)")
     }
   }
 }

Sources/tart/VM.swift

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import Foundation
 import Virtualization
-import AsyncAlgorithms
 import Semaphore
 
 struct UnsupportedRestoreImageError: Error {
@@ -47,9 +46,12 @@ class VM: NSObject, VZVirtualMachineDelegate, ObservableObject {
        directorySharingDevices: [VZDirectorySharingDeviceConfiguration] = [],
        serialPorts: [VZSerialPortConfiguration] = [],
        suspendable: Bool = false,
+       nested: Bool = false,
        audio: Bool = true,
        clipboard: Bool = true,
-       sync: VZDiskImageSynchronizationMode = .full
+       sync: VZDiskImageSynchronizationMode = .full,
+       caching: VZDiskImageCachingMode? = nil,
+       noTrackpad: Bool = false
   ) throws {
     name = vmDir.name
     config = try VMConfig.init(fromURL: vmDir.configURL)
@@ -66,9 +68,12 @@ class VM: NSObject, VZVirtualMachineDelegate, ObservableObject {
                                                 directorySharingDevices: directorySharingDevices,
                                                 serialPorts: serialPorts,
                                                 suspendable: suspendable,
+                                                nested: nested,
                                                 audio: audio,
                                                 clipboard: clipboard,
-                                                sync: sync
+                                                sync: sync,
+                                                caching: caching,
+                                                noTrackpad: noTrackpad
     )
     virtualMachine = VZVirtualMachine(configuration: configuration)
 
@@ -96,16 +101,13 @@ class VM: NSObject, VZVirtualMachineDelegate, ObservableObject {
     // Download the IPSW
     defaultLogger.appendNewLine("Fetching \(remoteURL.lastPathComponent)...")
 
-    let downloadProgress = Progress(totalUnitCount: 100)
-    ProgressObserver(downloadProgress).log(defaultLogger)
-
     let request = URLRequest(url: remoteURL)
-    let (channel, response) = try await Fetcher.fetch(request, viaFile: true, progress: downloadProgress)
+    let (channel, response) = try await Fetcher.fetch(request, viaFile: true)
 
     let temporaryLocation = try Config().tartTmpDir.appendingPathComponent(UUID().uuidString + ".ipsw")
-    defaultLogger.appendNewLine("Computing digest for \(temporaryLocation.path)...")
-    let digestProgress = Progress(totalUnitCount: response.expectedContentLength)
-    ProgressObserver(digestProgress).log(defaultLogger)
+
+    let progress = Progress(totalUnitCount: response.expectedContentLength)
+    ProgressObserver(progress).log(defaultLogger)
 
     FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: temporaryLocation.path, contents: nil)
     let lock = try FileLock(lockURL: temporaryLocation)
@@ -115,10 +117,9 @@ class VM: NSObject, VZVirtualMachineDelegate, ObservableObject {
     let digest = Digest()
 
     for try await chunk in channel {
-      let chunkAsData = Data(chunk)
-      fileHandle.write(chunkAsData)
-      digest.update(chunkAsData)
-      digestProgress.completedUnitCount += Int64(chunk.count)
+      try fileHandle.write(contentsOf: chunk)
+      digest.update(chunk)
+      progress.completedUnitCount += Int64(chunk.count)
     }
 
     try fileHandle.close()
@@ -142,6 +143,7 @@ class VM: NSObject, VZVirtualMachineDelegate, ObservableObject {
       vmDir: VMDirectory,
       ipswURL: URL,
       diskSizeGB: UInt16,
+      diskFormat: DiskImageFormat = .raw,
       network: Network = NetworkShared(),
       additionalStorageDevices: [VZStorageDeviceConfiguration] = [],
       directorySharingDevices: [VZDirectorySharingDeviceConfiguration] = [],
@@ -174,14 +176,15 @@ class VM: NSObject, VZVirtualMachineDelegate, ObservableObject {
       _ = try VZMacAuxiliaryStorage(creatingStorageAt: vmDir.nvramURL, hardwareModel: requirements.hardwareModel)
 
       // Create disk
-      try vmDir.resizeDisk(diskSizeGB)
+      try vmDir.resizeDisk(diskSizeGB, format: diskFormat)
 
       name = vmDir.name
       // Create config
       config = VMConfig(
         platform: Darwin(ecid: VZMacMachineIdentifier(), hardwareModel: requirements.hardwareModel),
         cpuCountMin: requirements.minimumSupportedCPUCount,
-        memorySizeMin: requirements.minimumSupportedMemorySize
+        memorySizeMin: requirements.minimumSupportedMemorySize,
+        diskFormat: diskFormat
       )
       // allocate at least 4 CPUs because otherwise VMs are frequently freezing
       try config.setCPU(cpuCount: max(4, requirements.minimumSupportedCPUCount))
@@ -223,15 +226,15 @@ class VM: NSObject, VZVirtualMachineDelegate, ObservableObject {
   #endif
 
   @available(macOS 13, *)
-  static func linux(vmDir: VMDirectory, diskSizeGB: UInt16) async throws -> VM {
+  static func linux(vmDir: VMDirectory, diskSizeGB: UInt16, diskFormat: DiskImageFormat = .raw) async throws -> VM {
     // Create NVRAM
     _ = try VZEFIVariableStore(creatingVariableStoreAt: vmDir.nvramURL)
 
     // Create disk
-    try vmDir.resizeDisk(diskSizeGB)
+    try vmDir.resizeDisk(diskSizeGB, format: diskFormat)
 
     // Create config
-    let config = VMConfig(platform: Linux(), cpuCountMin: 4, memorySizeMin: 4096 * 1024 * 1024)
+    let config = VMConfig(platform: Linux(), cpuCountMin: 4, memorySizeMin: 4096 * 1024 * 1024, diskFormat: diskFormat)
     try config.save(toURL: vmDir.configURL)
 
     return try VM(vmDir: vmDir)
@@ -247,6 +250,19 @@ class VM: NSObject, VZVirtualMachineDelegate, ObservableObject {
     }
   }
 
+  @MainActor
+  func connect(toPort: UInt32) async throws -> VZVirtioSocketConnection {
+    guard let socketDevice = virtualMachine.socketDevices.first else {
+      throw RuntimeError.VMSocketFailed(toPort, ", VM has no socket devices configured")
+    }
+
+    guard let virtioSocketDevice = socketDevice as? VZVirtioSocketDevice else {
+      throw RuntimeError.VMSocketFailed(toPort, ", expected VM's first socket device to have a type of VZVirtioSocketDevice, got \(type(of: socketDevice)) instead")
+    }
+
+    return try await virtioSocketDevice.connect(toPort: toPort)
+  }
+
   func run() async throws {
     do {
       try await sema.waitUnlessCancelled()
@@ -295,9 +311,12 @@ class VM: NSObject, VZVirtualMachineDelegate, ObservableObject {
     directorySharingDevices: [VZDirectorySharingDeviceConfiguration],
     serialPorts: [VZSerialPortConfiguration],
     suspendable: Bool = false,
+    nested: Bool = false,
     audio: Bool = true,
     clipboard: Bool = true,
-    sync: VZDiskImageSynchronizationMode = .full
+    sync: VZDiskImageSynchronizationMode = .full,
+    caching: VZDiskImageCachingMode? = nil,
+    noTrackpad: Bool = false
   ) throws -> VZVirtualMachineConfiguration {
     let configuration = VZVirtualMachineConfiguration()
 
@@ -309,7 +328,7 @@ class VM: NSObject, VZVirtualMachineDelegate, ObservableObject {
     configuration.memorySize = vmConfig.memorySize
 
     // Platform
-    configuration.platform = try vmConfig.platform.platform(nvramURL: nvramURL)
+    configuration.platform = try vmConfig.platform.platform(nvramURL: nvramURL, needsNestedVirtualization: nested)
 
     // Display
     configuration.graphicsDevices = [vmConfig.platform.graphicsDevice(vmConfig: vmConfig)]
@@ -338,7 +357,11 @@ class VM: NSObject, VZVirtualMachineDelegate, ObservableObject {
       configuration.pointingDevices = platformSuspendable.pointingDevicesSuspendable()
     } else {
       configuration.keyboards = vmConfig.platform.keyboards()
-      configuration.pointingDevices = vmConfig.platform.pointingDevices()
+      if noTrackpad {
+        configuration.pointingDevices = vmConfig.platform.pointingDevicesSimplified()
+      } else {
+        configuration.pointingDevices = vmConfig.platform.pointingDevices()
+      }
     }
 
     // Networking
@@ -350,28 +373,29 @@ class VM: NSObject, VZVirtualMachineDelegate, ObservableObject {
     }
 
     // Clipboard sharing via Spice agent
-    if clipboard && vmConfig.os == .linux {
+    if clipboard {
       let spiceAgentConsoleDevice = VZVirtioConsoleDeviceConfiguration()
       let spiceAgentPort = VZVirtioConsolePortConfiguration()
       spiceAgentPort.name = VZSpiceAgentPortAttachment.spiceAgentPortName
-      spiceAgentPort.attachment = VZSpiceAgentPortAttachment()
+      let spiceAgentPortAttachment = VZSpiceAgentPortAttachment()
+      spiceAgentPortAttachment.sharesClipboard = true
+      spiceAgentPort.attachment = spiceAgentPortAttachment
       spiceAgentConsoleDevice.ports[0] = spiceAgentPort
       configuration.consoleDevices.append(spiceAgentConsoleDevice)
     }
 
     // Storage
-    let attachment: VZDiskImageStorageDeviceAttachment = vmConfig.os == .linux ?
-      // Use "cached" caching mode for virtio drive to prevent fs corruption on linux
-      try VZDiskImageStorageDeviceAttachment(url: diskURL, readOnly: false, cachingMode: .cached, synchronizationMode: sync) :
-      try VZDiskImageStorageDeviceAttachment(url: diskURL, readOnly: false, cachingMode: .automatic, synchronizationMode: sync)
+    var attachment = try VZDiskImageStorageDeviceAttachment(
+      url: diskURL,
+      readOnly: false,
+      // When not specified, use "cached" caching mode for Linux VMs to prevent file-system corruption[1]
+      //
+      // [1]: https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/pull/675
+      cachingMode: caching ?? (vmConfig.os == .linux ? .cached : .automatic),
+      synchronizationMode: sync
+    )
 
-    var device: VZStorageDeviceConfiguration
-    if #available(macOS 14, *), vmConfig.os == .linux {
-      device = VZNVMExpressControllerDeviceConfiguration(attachment: attachment)
-    } else {
-      device = VZVirtioBlockDeviceConfiguration(attachment: attachment)
-    }
-    var devices: [VZStorageDeviceConfiguration] = [device]
+    var devices: [VZStorageDeviceConfiguration] = [VZVirtioBlockDeviceConfiguration(attachment: attachment)]
     devices.append(contentsOf: additionalStorageDevices)
     configuration.storageDevices = devices
 
@@ -390,15 +414,16 @@ class VM: NSObject, VZVirtualMachineDelegate, ObservableObject {
     //
     // A dummy console device useful for implementing
     // host feature checks in the guest agent software.
-    if !suspendable {
-      let consolePort = VZVirtioConsolePortConfiguration()
-      consolePort.name = "tart-version-\(CI.version)"
+    let consolePort = VZVirtioConsolePortConfiguration()
+    consolePort.name = "tart-version-\(CI.version)"
 
-      let consoleDevice = VZVirtioConsoleDeviceConfiguration()
-      consoleDevice.ports[0] = consolePort
+    let consoleDevice = VZVirtioConsoleDeviceConfiguration()
+    consoleDevice.ports[0] = consolePort
 
-      configuration.consoleDevices.append(consoleDevice)
-    }
+    configuration.consoleDevices.append(consoleDevice)
+
+    // Socket device
+    configuration.socketDevices = [VZVirtioSocketDeviceConfiguration()]
 
     try configuration.validate()
 

Sources/tart/VMConfig.swift

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
   case memorySize
   case macAddress
   case display
+  case displayRefit
+  case diskFormat
 
   // macOS-specific keys
   case ecid
@@ -52,12 +54,15 @@ struct VMConfig: Codable {
   private(set) var memorySize: UInt64
   var macAddress: VZMACAddress
   var display: VMDisplayConfig = VMDisplayConfig()
+  var displayRefit: Bool?
+  var diskFormat: DiskImageFormat = .raw
 
   init(
     platform: Platform,
     cpuCountMin: Int,
     memorySizeMin: UInt64,
-    macAddress: VZMACAddress = VZMACAddress.randomLocallyAdministered()
+    macAddress: VZMACAddress = VZMACAddress.randomLocallyAdministered(),
+    diskFormat: DiskImageFormat = .raw
   ) {
     self.os = platform.os()
     self.arch = CurrentArchitecture()
@@ -65,6 +70,7 @@ struct VMConfig: Codable {
     self.macAddress = macAddress
     self.cpuCountMin = cpuCountMin
     self.memorySizeMin = memorySizeMin
+    self.diskFormat = diskFormat
     cpuCount = cpuCountMin
     memorySize = memorySizeMin
   }
@@ -121,6 +127,9 @@ struct VMConfig: Codable {
     self.macAddress = macAddress
 
     display = try container.decodeIfPresent(VMDisplayConfig.self, forKey: .display) ?? VMDisplayConfig()
+    displayRefit = try container.decodeIfPresent(Bool.self, forKey: .displayRefit)
+    let diskFormatString = try container.decodeIfPresent(String.self, forKey: .diskFormat) ?? "raw"
+    diskFormat = DiskImageFormat(rawValue: diskFormatString) ?? .raw
   }
 
   func encode(to encoder: Encoder) throws {
@@ -136,6 +145,10 @@ struct VMConfig: Codable {
     try container.encode(memorySize, forKey: .memorySize)
     try container.encode(macAddress.string, forKey: .macAddress)
     try container.encode(display, forKey: .display)
+    if let displayRefit = displayRefit {
+      try container.encode(displayRefit, forKey: .displayRefit)
+    }
+    try container.encode(diskFormat.rawValue, forKey: .diskFormat)
   }
 
   mutating func setCPU(cpuCount: Int) throws {

Sources/tart/VMDirectory+OCI.swift

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ extension VMDirectory {
     }
     let configFile = try FileHandle(forWritingTo: configURL)
     try await registry.pullBlob(configLayers.first!.digest) { data in
-      configFile.write(data)
+      try configFile.write(contentsOf: data)
     }
     try configFile.close()
 
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ extension VMDirectory {
     }
     let nvram = try FileHandle(forWritingTo: nvramURL)
     try await registry.pullBlob(nvramLayers.first!.digest) { data in
-      nvram.write(data)
+      try nvram.write(contentsOf: data)
     }
     try nvram.close()
 
@@ -87,11 +87,15 @@ extension VMDirectory {
     try manifest.toJSON().write(to: manifestURL)
   }
 
-  func pushToRegistry(registry: Registry, references: [String], chunkSizeMb: Int, diskFormat: String, concurrency: UInt) async throws -> RemoteName {
+  func pushToRegistry(registry: Registry, references: [String], chunkSizeMb: Int, diskFormat: String, concurrency: UInt, labels: [String: String] = [:]) async throws -> RemoteName {
     var layers = Array<OCIManifestLayer>()
 
     // Read VM's config and push it as blob
     let config = try VMConfig(fromURL: configURL)
+
+    // Add disk format label automatically
+    var labels = labels
+    labels[diskFormatLabel] = config.diskFormat.rawValue
     let configJSON = try JSONEncoder().encode(config)
     defaultLogger.appendNewLine("pushing config...")
     let configDigest = try await registry.pushBlob(fromData: configJSON, chunkSizeMb: chunkSizeMb)
@@ -121,7 +125,8 @@ extension VMDirectory {
     layers.append(OCIManifestLayer(mediaType: nvramMediaType, size: nvram.count, digest: nvramDigest))
 
     // Craft a stub OCI config for Docker Hub compatibility
-    let ociConfigJSON = try OCIConfig(architecture: config.arch, os: config.os).toJSON()
+    let ociConfigContainer = OCIConfig.ConfigContainer(Labels: labels)
+    let ociConfigJSON = try OCIConfig(architecture: config.arch, os: config.os, config: ociConfigContainer).toJSON()
     let ociConfigDigest = try await registry.pushBlob(fromData: ociConfigJSON, chunkSizeMb: chunkSizeMb)
     let manifest = OCIManifest(
       config: OCIManifestConfig(size: ociConfigJSON.count, digest: ociConfigDigest),

Sources/tart/VMDirectory.swift

@@ -2,6 +2,25 @@ import Foundation
 import Virtualization
 import CryptoKit
 
+// MARK: - Disk Image Info Structures
+struct DiskImageInfo: Codable {
+  let sizeInfo: SizeInfo?
+  let size: UInt64?
+
+  enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
+    case sizeInfo = "Size Info"
+    case size = "Size"
+  }
+}
+
+struct SizeInfo: Codable {
+  let totalBytes: UInt64?
+
+  enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
+    case totalBytes = "Total Bytes"
+  }
+}
+
 struct VMDirectory: Prunable {
   enum State: String {
     case Running = "running"
@@ -26,6 +45,9 @@ struct VMDirectory: Prunable {
   var manifestURL: URL {
     baseURL.appendingPathComponent("manifest.json")
   }
+  var controlSocketURL: URL {
+    baseURL.appendingPathComponent("control.sock")
+  }
 
   var explicitlyPulledMark: URL {
     baseURL.appendingPathComponent(".explicitly-pulled")
@@ -139,14 +161,34 @@ struct VMDirectory: Prunable {
     try vmConfig.save(toURL: configURL)
   }
 
-  func resizeDisk(_ sizeGB: UInt16) throws {
-    if !FileManager.default.fileExists(atPath: diskURL.path) {
-      FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: diskURL.path, contents: nil, attributes: nil)
-    }
+  func resizeDisk(_ sizeGB: UInt16, format: DiskImageFormat = .raw) throws {
+    let diskExists = FileManager.default.fileExists(atPath: diskURL.path)
 
+    if diskExists {
+      // Existing disk - resize it
+      try resizeExistingDisk(sizeGB)
+    } else {
+      // New disk - create it with the specified format
+      try createDisk(sizeGB: sizeGB, format: format)
+    }
+  }
+
+  private func resizeExistingDisk(_ sizeGB: UInt16) throws {
+    // Check if this is an ASIF disk by reading the VM config
+    let vmConfig = try VMConfig(fromURL: configURL)
+
+    if vmConfig.diskFormat == .asif {
+      try resizeASIFDisk(sizeGB)
+    } else {
+      try resizeRawDisk(sizeGB)
+    }
+  }
+
+  private func resizeRawDisk(_ sizeGB: UInt16) throws {
     let diskFileHandle = try FileHandle.init(forWritingTo: diskURL)
     let currentDiskFileLength = try diskFileHandle.seekToEnd()
     let desiredDiskFileLength = UInt64(sizeGB) * 1000 * 1000 * 1000
+
     if desiredDiskFileLength < currentDiskFileLength {
       let currentLengthHuman = ByteCountFormatter().string(fromByteCount: Int64(currentDiskFileLength))
       let desiredLengthHuman = ByteCountFormatter().string(fromByteCount: Int64(desiredDiskFileLength))
@@ -158,6 +200,157 @@ struct VMDirectory: Prunable {
     try diskFileHandle.close()
   }
 
+  private func resizeASIFDisk(_ sizeGB: UInt16) throws {
+    guard let diskutilURL = resolveBinaryPath("diskutil") else {
+      throw RuntimeError.FailedToResizeDisk("diskutil not found in PATH")
+    }
+
+    // First, get current disk image info to check current size
+    let infoProcess = Process()
+    infoProcess.executableURL = diskutilURL
+    infoProcess.arguments = ["image", "info", "--plist", diskURL.path]
+
+    let infoPipe = Pipe()
+    infoProcess.standardOutput = infoPipe
+    infoProcess.standardError = infoPipe
+
+    do {
+      try infoProcess.run()
+      infoProcess.waitUntilExit()
+
+      let infoData = infoPipe.fileHandleForReading.readDataToEndOfFile()
+
+      if infoProcess.terminationStatus != 0 {
+        let output = String(data: infoData, encoding: .utf8) ?? "Unknown error"
+        throw RuntimeError.FailedToResizeDisk("Failed to get ASIF disk info: \(output)")
+      }
+
+      // Parse the plist using PropertyListDecoder
+      do {
+        let diskImageInfo = try PropertyListDecoder().decode(DiskImageInfo.self, from: infoData)
+
+        // Extract current size from the decoded structure
+        var currentSizeBytes: UInt64?
+
+        // Try to get size from Size Info -> Total Bytes first
+        if let totalBytes = diskImageInfo.sizeInfo?.totalBytes {
+          currentSizeBytes = totalBytes
+        } else if let size = diskImageInfo.size {
+          // Fallback to top-level Size field
+          currentSizeBytes = size
+        }
+
+        guard let currentSizeBytes = currentSizeBytes else {
+          throw RuntimeError.FailedToResizeDisk("Could not find size information in disk image info")
+        }
+
+        let desiredSizeBytes = UInt64(sizeGB) * 1000 * 1000 * 1000
+
+        if desiredSizeBytes < currentSizeBytes {
+          let currentLengthHuman = ByteCountFormatter().string(fromByteCount: Int64(currentSizeBytes))
+          let desiredLengthHuman = ByteCountFormatter().string(fromByteCount: Int64(desiredSizeBytes))
+          throw RuntimeError.InvalidDiskSize("new disk size of \(desiredLengthHuman) should be larger " +
+            "than the current disk size of \(currentLengthHuman)")
+        } else if desiredSizeBytes > currentSizeBytes {
+          // Resize the ASIF disk image using diskutil
+          try performASIFResize(sizeGB)
+        }
+        // If sizes are equal, no action needed
+      } catch let error as RuntimeError {
+        throw error
+      } catch {
+        let outputString = String(data: infoData, encoding: .utf8) ?? "Unable to decode output"
+        throw RuntimeError.FailedToResizeDisk("Failed to parse disk image info: \(error). Output: \(outputString)")
+      }
+    } catch {
+      throw RuntimeError.FailedToResizeDisk("Failed to get disk image info: \(error)")
+    }
+  }
+
+  private func performASIFResize(_ sizeGB: UInt16) throws {
+    guard let diskutilURL = resolveBinaryPath("diskutil") else {
+      throw RuntimeError.FailedToResizeDisk("diskutil not found in PATH")
+    }
+
+    let process = Process()
+    process.executableURL = diskutilURL
+    process.arguments = [
+      "image", "resize",
+      "--size", "\(sizeGB)G",
+      diskURL.path
+    ]
+
+    let pipe = Pipe()
+    process.standardOutput = pipe
+    process.standardError = pipe
+
+    do {
+      try process.run()
+      process.waitUntilExit()
+
+      let data = pipe.fileHandleForReading.readDataToEndOfFile()
+
+      if process.terminationStatus != 0 {
+        let output = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8) ?? "Unknown error"
+        throw RuntimeError.FailedToResizeDisk("Failed to resize ASIF disk image: \(output)")
+      }
+    } catch {
+      throw RuntimeError.FailedToResizeDisk("Failed to execute diskutil resize: \(error)")
+    }
+  }
+
+  private func createDisk(sizeGB: UInt16, format: DiskImageFormat) throws {
+    switch format {
+    case .raw:
+      try createRawDisk(sizeGB: sizeGB)
+    case .asif:
+      try createASIFDisk(sizeGB: sizeGB)
+    }
+  }
+
+  private func createRawDisk(sizeGB: UInt16) throws {
+    // Create traditional raw disk image
+    FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: diskURL.path, contents: nil, attributes: nil)
+
+    let diskFileHandle = try FileHandle.init(forWritingTo: diskURL)
+    let desiredDiskFileLength = UInt64(sizeGB) * 1000 * 1000 * 1000
+    try diskFileHandle.truncate(atOffset: desiredDiskFileLength)
+    try diskFileHandle.close()
+  }
+
+  private func createASIFDisk(sizeGB: UInt16) throws {
+    guard let diskutilURL = resolveBinaryPath("diskutil") else {
+      throw RuntimeError.FailedToCreateDisk("diskutil not found in PATH")
+    }
+
+    let process = Process()
+    process.executableURL = diskutilURL
+    process.arguments = [
+      "image", "create", "blank",
+      "--format", "ASIF",
+      "--size", "\(sizeGB)G",
+      "--volumeName", "Tart",
+      diskURL.path
+    ]
+
+    let pipe = Pipe()
+    process.standardOutput = pipe
+    process.standardError = pipe
+
+    do {
+      try process.run()
+      process.waitUntilExit()
+
+      if process.terminationStatus != 0 {
+        let data = pipe.fileHandleForReading.readDataToEndOfFile()
+        let output = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8) ?? "Unknown error"
+        throw RuntimeError.FailedToCreateDisk("Failed to create ASIF disk image: \(output)")
+      }
+    } catch {
+      throw RuntimeError.FailedToCreateDisk("Failed to execute diskutil: \(error)")
+    }
+  }
+
   func delete() throws {
     let lock = try lock()
 

Sources/tart/VMStorageHelper.swift

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ extension Error {
 }
 
 enum RuntimeError : Error {
+  case Generic(_ message: String)
   case VMConfigurationError(_ message: String)
   case VMDoesNotExist(name: String)
   case VMMissingFiles(_ message: String)
@@ -59,6 +60,8 @@ enum RuntimeError : Error {
   case DiskAlreadyInUse(_ message: String)
   case FailedToOpenBlockDevice(_ path: String, _ explanation: String)
   case InvalidDiskSize(_ message: String)
+  case FailedToCreateDisk(_ message: String)
+  case FailedToResizeDisk(_ message: String)
   case FailedToUpdateAccessDate(_ message: String)
   case PIDLockFailed(_ message: String)
   case PIDLockMissing(_ message: String)
@@ -75,6 +78,8 @@ enum RuntimeError : Error {
   case SuspendFailed(_ message: String)
   case PullFailed(_ message: String)
   case VirtualMachineLimitExceeded(_ hint: String)
+  case VMSocketFailed(_ port: UInt32, _ explanation: String)
+  case TerminalOperationFailed(_ message: String)
 }
 
 protocol HasExitCode {
@@ -84,6 +89,8 @@ protocol HasExitCode {
 extension RuntimeError : CustomStringConvertible {
   public var description: String {
     switch self {
+    case .Generic(let message):
+      return message
     case .VMConfigurationError(let message):
       return message
     case .VMDoesNotExist(let name):
@@ -104,6 +111,10 @@ extension RuntimeError : CustomStringConvertible {
       return "failed to open block device \(path): \(explanation)"
     case .InvalidDiskSize(let message):
       return message
+    case .FailedToCreateDisk(let message):
+      return message
+    case .FailedToResizeDisk(let message):
+      return message
     case .FailedToUpdateAccessDate(let message):
       return message
     case .PIDLockFailed(let message):
@@ -136,6 +147,10 @@ extension RuntimeError : CustomStringConvertible {
       return message
     case .VirtualMachineLimitExceeded(let hint):
       return "The number of VMs exceeds the system limit\(hint)"
+    case .VMSocketFailed(let port, let explanation):
+      return "Failed to establish a VM socket connection to port \(port): \(explanation)"
+    case .TerminalOperationFailed(let message):
+      return message
     }
   }
 }

Sources/tart/VMStorageOCI.swift

@@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ class VMStorageOCI: PrunableStorage {
     return digest
   }
 
-  func open(_ name: RemoteName) throws -> VMDirectory {
+  func open(_ name: RemoteName, _ accessDate: Date = Date()) throws -> VMDirectory {
     let vmDir = VMDirectory(baseURL: vmURL(name))
 
     try vmDir.validate(userFriendlyName: name.description)
 
-    try vmDir.baseURL.updateAccessDate()
+    try vmDir.baseURL.updateAccessDate(accessDate)
 
     return vmDir
   }
@@ -180,6 +180,10 @@ class VMStorageOCI: PrunableStorage {
       let transaction = SentrySDK.startTransaction(name: name.description, operation: "pull", bindToScope: true)
       let tmpVMDir = try VMDirectory.temporaryDeterministic(key: name.description)
 
+      // Open an existing VM directory corresponding to this name, if any,
+      // marking it as outdated to speed up the garbage collection process
+      _ = try? open(name, Date(timeIntervalSince1970: 0))
+
       // Lock the temporary VM directory to prevent it's garbage collection
       let tmpVMDirLock = try FileLock(lockURL: tmpVMDir.baseURL)
       try tmpVMDirLock.lock()
@@ -196,7 +200,7 @@ class VMStorageOCI: PrunableStorage {
       }
 
       try await withTaskCancellationHandler(operation: {
-        try await retry(maxAttempts: 5, backoff: .exponentialWithFullJitter(baseDelay: .seconds(5), maxDelay: .seconds(60))) {
+        try await retry(maxAttempts: 5) {
           // Choose the best base image which has the most deduplication ratio
           let localLayerCache = try await chooseLocalLayerCache(name, manifest, registry)
 
@@ -212,9 +216,8 @@ class VMStorageOCI: PrunableStorage {
 
           try await tmpVMDir.pullFromRegistry(registry: registry, manifest: manifest, concurrency: concurrency, localLayerCache: localLayerCache, deduplicate: deduplicate)
         } recoverFromFailure: { error in
-          if error is Retryable {
-            print("Error: \(error.localizedDescription)")
-            print("Attempting to re-try...")
+          if error is URLError {
+            print("Error pulling image: \"\(error.localizedDescription)\", attempting to re-try...")
 
             return .retry
           }
@@ -239,6 +242,9 @@ class VMStorageOCI: PrunableStorage {
       // are excluded from garbage collection
       VMDirectory(baseURL: vmURL(name)).markExplicitlyPulled()
     }
+
+    // to explicitly set the image as being accessed so it won't get pruned immediately
+    _ = try VMStorageOCI().open(name)
   }
 
   func linked(from: RemoteName, to: RemoteName) -> Bool {

Tests/TartTests/DiskImageFormatTests.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+import XCTest
+@testable import tart
+
+final class DiskImageFormatTests: XCTestCase {
+  func testRawFormatIsAlwaysSupported() throws {
+    XCTAssertTrue(DiskImageFormat.raw.isSupported)
+  }
+
+  func testASIFFormatSupport() throws {
+    // ASIF should be supported on macOS 15+
+    if #available(macOS 15, *) {
+      XCTAssertTrue(DiskImageFormat.asif.isSupported)
+    } else {
+      XCTAssertFalse(DiskImageFormat.asif.isSupported)
+    }
+  }
+
+  func testFormatFromString() throws {
+    XCTAssertEqual(DiskImageFormat(rawValue: "raw"), .raw)
+    XCTAssertEqual(DiskImageFormat(rawValue: "asif"), .asif)
+    XCTAssertNil(DiskImageFormat(rawValue: "invalid"))
+  }
+
+  func testCaseInsensitivity() throws {
+    XCTAssertEqual(DiskImageFormat(argument: "ASIF"), .asif) // case insensitive
+    XCTAssertEqual(DiskImageFormat(argument: "Raw"), .raw)  // case insensitive
+  }
+
+  func testAllValueStrings() throws {
+    let allValues = DiskImageFormat.allValueStrings
+    XCTAssertTrue(allValues.contains("raw"))
+    XCTAssertTrue(allValues.contains("asif"))
+    XCTAssertEqual(allValues.count, 2)
+  }
+
+  func testVMConfigDiskFormatSerialization() throws {
+    // Test that VMConfig properly serializes and deserializes disk format
+    let config = VMConfig(
+      platform: Linux(),
+      cpuCountMin: 2,
+      memorySizeMin: 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
+      diskFormat: .asif
+    )
+
+    XCTAssertEqual(config.diskFormat, .asif)
+
+    // Test JSON encoding/decoding
+    let encoder = JSONEncoder()
+    let data = try encoder.encode(config)
+
+    let decoder = JSONDecoder()
+    let decodedConfig = try decoder.decode(VMConfig.self, from: data)
+
+    XCTAssertEqual(decodedConfig.diskFormat, .asif)
+  }
+
+  func testVMConfigDefaultDiskFormat() throws {
+    // Test that VMConfig defaults to raw format
+    let config = VMConfig(
+      platform: Linux(),
+      cpuCountMin: 2,
+      memorySizeMin: 1024 * 1024 * 1024
+    )
+
+    XCTAssertEqual(config.diskFormat, .raw)
+  }
+}

Tests/TartTests/Util/RegistryRunner.swift

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class RegistryRunner {
 
   init() async throws {
     // Start container
-    let container = try Self.dockerCmd("run", "-d", "--rm", "-p", "5000", "registry:2")
+    let container = try Self.dockerCmd("run", "-d", "--rm", "-p", "127.0.0.1:0:5000", "registry:2")
       .trimmingCharacters(in: CharacterSet.newlines)
     containerID = container
 

benchmark/README.md

@@ -2,10 +2,18 @@
 
 Tart comes with a Golang-based benchmarking utility that allows one to easily compare host and guest performance.
 
-Currently, only Flexible I/O tester workloads are supported. To run them, [install Golang](https://go.dev/) and run the following command from this (`benchmark/`) directory:
+Currently, only Flexible I/O tester workloads are supported. To run them, first make sure that [passwordless sudo](https://serverfault.com/questions/160581/how-to-setup-passwordless-sudo-on-linux) is configured.
+
+Then, [install Golang](https://go.dev/). The easiest way is through [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/):
 
 ```shell
-go run cmd/main.go fio
+brew install go
+```
+
+Finally, run the following command from this (`benchmark/`) directory:
+
+```shell
+go run cmd/main.go fio --image ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-base:latest --prepare 'sudo purge && sync'
 ```
 
 You can also enable the debugging output to diagnose issues:
@@ -16,6 +24,8 @@ go run cmd/main.go fio --debug
 
 ## Results
 
+### Mar 27, 2024
+
 Host:
 
 * Hardware: Mac mini (Apple M2 Pro, 8 performance and 4 efficiency cores, 32 GB RAM, `Mac14,12`)
@@ -37,3 +47,164 @@ Random writing of 100MB 	Tart    	2.0 GB/s 	493.31 kIOPS
 Random writing of 1000MB	local   	1.7 GB/s 	414.89 kIOPS  
 Random writing of 1000MB	Tart    	1.1 GB/s 	287.4 kIOPS  
 ```
+
+### Dec 2, 2024
+
+Host:
+
+* Hardware: MacBook Pro (Apple M1 Pro, 8 performance and 2 efficiency cores, 32 GB RAM, `MacBookPro18,3`)
+* OS: macOS Sequoia 15.1.1
+
+Guest:
+
+* Hardware: [Virtualization.Framework](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization)
+* OS: macOS Sonoma 14.6
+
+```
+Name                                    	Executor                                          	B/W (read)	B/W (write)	I/O (read) 	I/O (write) 	Latency (read)          	Latency (write)         	Latency (sync)      
+Single 4KiB random write process        	local                                             	0 B/s     	19 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	4.81 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                 	203.418µs ± 155.865µs   	0s ± 0s             
+Single 4KiB random write process        	Tart                                              	0 B/s     	18 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	4.54 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                 	213.655µs ± 188.822µs   	0s ± 0s             
+Single 4KiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	0 B/s     	19 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	4.68 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                 	208.413µs ± 183.45µs    	0s ± 0s             
+Single 4KiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	0 B/s     	24 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	6.11 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                 	158.07µs ± 2.294654ms   	0s ± 0s             
+Single 4KiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	0 B/s     	22 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	5.49 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                 	173.414µs ± 310.213µs   	0s ± 0s             
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	local                                             	0 B/s     	18 GB/s    	0 IOPS     	273.76 kIOPS	0s ± 0s                 	323.423µs ± 604.999µs   	0s ± 0s             
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	Tart                                              	0 B/s     	16 GB/s    	0 IOPS     	273.48 kIOPS	0s ± 0s                 	335.086µs ± 7.591748ms  	0s ± 0s             
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	0 B/s     	18 GB/s    	0 IOPS     	281.49 kIOPS	0s ± 0s                 	326.655µs ± 7.485473ms  	0s ± 0s             
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	0 B/s     	17 GB/s    	0 IOPS     	266.79 kIOPS	0s ± 0s                 	340µs ± 7.868384ms      	0s ± 0s             
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	0 B/s     	16 GB/s    	0 IOPS     	251.02 kIOPS	0s ± 0s                 	355.077µs ± 8.354218ms  	0s ± 0s             
+Single 1MiB random write process        	local                                             	0 B/s     	1.3 GB/s   	0 IOPS     	1.31 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                 	751.716µs ± 370.731µs   	0s ± 0s             
+Single 1MiB random write process        	Tart                                              	0 B/s     	1.1 GB/s   	0 IOPS     	1.1 kIOPS   	0s ± 0s                 	885.833µs ± 3.572539ms  	0s ± 0s             
+Single 1MiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	0 B/s     	1.1 GB/s   	0 IOPS     	1.08 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                 	898.427µs ± 3.464261ms  	0s ± 0s             
+Single 1MiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	0 B/s     	1000 MB/s  	0 IOPS     	976.47 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                 	972.491µs ± 6.87654ms   	0s ± 0s             
+Single 1MiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	0 B/s     	1.1 GB/s   	0 IOPS     	1.03 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                 	925.545µs ± 4.261693ms  	0s ± 0s             
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	local                                             	62 MB/s   	62 MB/s    	15.37 kIOPS	15.37 kIOPS 	2.059453ms ± 1.431822ms 	2.098761ms ± 1.445082ms 	0s ± 0s             
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	Tart                                              	38 MB/s   	38 MB/s    	9.6 kIOPS  	9.61 kIOPS  	3.30369ms ± 1.500464ms  	3.350589ms ± 1.512986ms 	0s ± 0s             
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	39 MB/s   	39 MB/s    	9.82 kIOPS 	9.83 kIOPS  	3.228106ms ± 1.367512ms 	3.27626ms ± 1.385964ms  	0s ± 0s             
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	35 MB/s   	35 MB/s    	8.74 kIOPS 	8.76 kIOPS  	3.640772ms ± 15.472355ms	3.661779ms ± 15.264288ms	0s ± 0s             
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	24 MB/s   	24 MB/s    	5.98 kIOPS 	5.99 kIOPS  	5.31188ms ± 4.55205ms   	5.375047ms ± 5.113847ms 	0s ± 0s             
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	local                                             	435 MB/s  	436 MB/s   	6.79 kIOPS 	6.8 kIOPS   	4.955892ms ± 2.066685ms 	4.440414ms ± 1.860036ms 	0s ± 0s             
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	Tart                                              	352 MB/s  	353 MB/s   	5.5 kIOPS  	5.51 kIOPS  	5.946067ms ± 2.041124ms 	5.658948ms ± 1.928372ms 	0s ± 0s             
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	331 MB/s  	332 MB/s   	5.16 kIOPS 	5.17 kIOPS  	6.330765ms ± 1.726782ms 	6.033862ms ± 1.671028ms 	0s ± 0s             
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	428 MB/s  	428 MB/s   	6.68 kIOPS 	6.69 kIOPS  	4.661666ms ± 18.342779ms	4.904961ms ± 18.396772ms	0s ± 0s             
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	297 MB/s  	298 MB/s   	4.64 kIOPS 	4.65 kIOPS  	6.591009ms ± 2.827053ms 	7.166883ms ± 3.001036ms 	0s ± 0s             
+sync test                               	local                                             	0 B/s     	48 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	21.15 kIOPS 	0s ± 0s                 	23.471µs ± 81.868µs     	23.374µs ± 6.255µs  
+sync test                               	Tart                                              	0 B/s     	24 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	10.72 kIOPS 	0s ± 0s                 	24.983µs ± 61.761µs     	67.575µs ± 76.196µs 
+sync test                               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	0 B/s     	21 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	9.5 kIOPS   	0s ± 0s                 	26.973µs ± 63.935µs     	77.388µs ± 47.103µs 
+sync test                               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	0 B/s     	30 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	13.19 kIOPS 	0s ± 0s                 	11.923µs ± 25.225µs     	62.894µs ± 208.933µs
+sync test                               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	0 B/s     	38 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	17.02 kIOPS 	0s ± 0s                 	10.124µs ± 21.868µs     	47.803µs ± 33.706µs
+```
+
+### Dec 4, 2024
+
+Host:
+
+* AWS instance: `mac2.metal` + `gp3` EBS volume
+* Hardware: Mac mini (Apple M1, 4 performance and 4 efficiency cores, 16 GB RAM, `Macmini9,1`)
+* OS: macOS Sequoia 15.0
+
+Guest:
+
+* Hardware: [Virtualization.Framework](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization)
+* OS: macOS Sonoma 14.6
+
+```
+Name                                    	Executor                                          	B/W (read)	B/W (write)	I/O (read) 	I/O (write) 	Latency (read)            	Latency (write)           	Latency (sync)         
+Single 4KiB random write process        	local                                             	0 B/s     	4.4 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	1.1 kIOPS   	0s ± 0s                   	702.357µs ± 359.925µs     	0s ± 0s                
+Single 4KiB random write process        	Tart                                              	0 B/s     	2.6 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	656.37 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	1.140086ms ± 1.450472ms   	0s ± 0s                
+Single 4KiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	0 B/s     	2.7 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	677.07 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	1.179872ms ± 1.219626ms   	0s ± 0s                
+Single 4KiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	0 B/s     	3.3 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	832.66 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	948.648µs ± 94.141338ms   	0s ± 0s                
+Single 4KiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	0 B/s     	15 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	3.65 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                   	260.717µs ± 19.977757ms   	0s ± 0s                
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	local                                             	0 B/s     	9.5 GB/s   	0 IOPS     	147.89 kIOPS	0s ± 0s                   	753.289µs ± 8.028974ms    	0s ± 0s                
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	Tart                                              	0 B/s     	10 GB/s    	0 IOPS     	176.96 kIOPS	0s ± 0s                   	429.83µs ± 33.792264ms    	0s ± 0s                
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	0 B/s     	12 GB/s    	0 IOPS     	180.89 kIOPS	0s ± 0s                   	383.524µs ± 17.524971ms   	0s ± 0s                
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	0 B/s     	336 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	5.24 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                   	9.970844ms ± 365.808663ms 	0s ± 0s                
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	0 B/s     	9.4 GB/s   	0 IOPS     	147.04 kIOPS	0s ± 0s                   	524.139µs ± 34.100009ms   	0s ± 0s                
+Single 1MiB random write process        	local                                             	0 B/s     	178 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	173.36 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	3.835103ms ± 2.917977ms   	0s ± 0s                
+Single 1MiB random write process        	Tart                                              	0 B/s     	140 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	136.48 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	4.721178ms ± 7.744965ms   	0s ± 0s                
+Single 1MiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	0 B/s     	144 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	140.63 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	4.443507ms ± 11.572454ms  	0s ± 0s                
+Single 1MiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	0 B/s     	47 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	45.55 IOPS  	0s ± 0s                   	13.267881ms ± 358.283094ms	0s ± 0s                
+Single 1MiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	0 B/s     	196 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	191.4 IOPS  	0s ± 0s                   	4.102516ms ± 73.117503ms  	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	local                                             	8.7 MB/s  	8.7 MB/s   	2.16 kIOPS 	2.16 kIOPS  	193.370794ms ± 42.593607ms	222.272016ms ± 56.586971ms	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	Tart                                              	4.1 MB/s  	4.1 MB/s   	1.02 kIOPS 	1.03 kIOPS  	31.038867ms ± 13.508668ms 	31.184305ms ± 14.032766ms 	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	4.2 MB/s  	4.2 MB/s   	1.04 kIOPS 	1.05 kIOPS  	30.368422ms ± 13.505627ms 	30.595412ms ± 13.840944ms 	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	2.2 MB/s  	2.2 MB/s   	545.33 IOPS	548.86 IOPS 	59.31316ms ± 716.351086ms 	57.647852ms ± 711.503882ms	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	6.0 MB/s  	6.0 MB/s   	1.5 kIOPS  	1.5 kIOPS   	21.244222ms ± 47.808399ms 	21.39459ms ± 44.716307ms  	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	local                                             	121 MB/s  	121 MB/s   	1.89 kIOPS 	1.89 kIOPS  	61.894699ms ± 21.353345ms 	73.176462ms ± 13.02948ms  	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	Tart                                              	72 MB/s   	72 MB/s    	1.12 kIOPS 	1.12 kIOPS  	27.842263ms ± 15.320781ms 	29.161858ms ± 15.765314ms 	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	71 MB/s   	72 MB/s    	1.11 kIOPS 	1.11 kIOPS  	28.009493ms ± 16.333136ms 	29.285868ms ± 16.540589ms 	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	28 MB/s   	28 MB/s    	441.85 IOPS	444.81 IOPS 	71.726725ms ± 633.215756ms	72.597238ms ± 630.969305ms	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	81 MB/s   	81 MB/s    	1.26 kIOPS 	1.26 kIOPS  	24.872043ms ± 36.980111ms 	25.568559ms ± 37.027145ms 	0s ± 0s                
+sync test                               	local                                             	0 B/s     	1.9 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	868.08 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	92.08µs ± 233.598µs       	1.059033ms ± 98.751µs  
+sync test                               	Tart                                              	0 B/s     	1.5 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	649.42 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	146.737µs ± 434.261µs     	1.391898ms ± 699.148µs 
+sync test                               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	0 B/s     	1.3 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	568.82 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	158.736µs ± 504.002µs     	1.59798ms ± 14.161331ms
+sync test                               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	0 B/s     	13 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	5.77 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                   	26.596µs ± 832.169µs      	145.785µs ± 2.864048ms 
+sync test                               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	0 B/s     	19 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	8.37 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                   	20.135µs ± 108.817µs      	98.274µs ± 239.631µs   
+```
+
+Host:
+
+* AWS instance: `mac2.metal` + `gp3` EBS volume
+* Hardware: Mac mini (Apple M1, 4 performance and 4 efficiency cores, 16 GB RAM, `Macmini9,1`)
+* OS: macOS Sequoia 15.0
+
+Guest:
+
+* Hardware: [Virtualization.Framework](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization)
+* OS: macOS Sequoia 15.1
+
+```
+Name                                    	Executor                                          	B/W (read)	B/W (write)	I/O (read) 	I/O (write) 	Latency (read)            	Latency (write)           	Latency (sync)         
+Single 4KiB random write process        	local                                             	0 B/s     	4.8 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	1.19 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                   	690.818µs ± 326.595µs     	0s ± 0s                
+Single 4KiB random write process        	Tart                                              	0 B/s     	2.8 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	700.94 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	1.090362ms ± 918.444µs    	0s ± 0s                
+Single 4KiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	0 B/s     	3.0 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	746.23 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	1.028192ms ± 974.533µs    	0s ± 0s                
+Single 4KiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	0 B/s     	4.2 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	1.04 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                   	916.36µs ± 105.318323ms   	0s ± 0s                
+Single 4KiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	0 B/s     	14 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	3.57 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                   	269.796µs ± 22.419599ms   	0s ± 0s                
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	local                                             	0 B/s     	9.5 GB/s   	0 IOPS     	148.74 kIOPS	0s ± 0s                   	753.46µs ± 8.06509ms      	0s ± 0s                
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	Tart                                              	0 B/s     	5.2 GB/s   	0 IOPS     	81.46 kIOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	778.624µs ± 11.705178ms   	0s ± 0s                
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	0 B/s     	5.3 GB/s   	0 IOPS     	83.47 kIOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	865.448µs ± 38.369176ms   	0s ± 0s                
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	0 B/s     	116 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	1.8 kIOPS   	0s ± 0s                   	37.601112ms ± 727.319309ms	0s ± 0s                
+16 parallel 64KiB random write processes	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	0 B/s     	5.3 GB/s   	0 IOPS     	83.19 kIOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	900.751µs ± 51.223205ms   	0s ± 0s                
+Single 1MiB random write process        	local                                             	0 B/s     	177 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	173.27 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	3.833194ms ± 2.873871ms   	0s ± 0s                
+Single 1MiB random write process        	Tart                                              	0 B/s     	151 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	147.44 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	4.925853ms ± 7.793808ms   	0s ± 0s                
+Single 1MiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	0 B/s     	151 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	147.87 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	4.884797ms ± 7.563512ms   	0s ± 0s                
+Single 1MiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	0 B/s     	72 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	69.9 IOPS   	0s ± 0s                   	8.909771ms ± 214.311644ms 	0s ± 0s                
+Single 1MiB random write process        	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	0 B/s     	159 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	155.69 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	4.863448ms ± 88.965211ms  	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	local                                             	8.7 MB/s  	8.7 MB/s   	2.16 kIOPS 	2.16 kIOPS  	193.353233ms ± 42.728494ms	222.325905ms ± 56.901372ms	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	Tart                                              	3.5 MB/s  	3.5 MB/s   	862.89 IOPS	865.54 IOPS 	36.893229ms ± 12.644216ms 	37.143334ms ± 12.772017ms 	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	3.6 MB/s  	3.6 MB/s   	907.4 IOPS 	911.55 IOPS 	35.048969ms ± 10.559354ms 	35.3046ms ± 10.67824ms    	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	2.7 MB/s  	2.8 MB/s   	684.11 IOPS	688.05 IOPS 	48.815322ms ± 687.806727ms	44.395556ms ± 635.532064ms	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (4k)                	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	7.0 MB/s  	7.0 MB/s   	1.74 kIOPS 	1.74 kIOPS  	18.00448ms ± 93.784447ms  	18.617037ms ± 107.423001ms	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	local                                             	121 MB/s  	121 MB/s   	1.89 kIOPS 	1.89 kIOPS  	61.983727ms ± 21.324782ms 	73.228597ms ± 12.730945ms 	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	Tart                                              	75 MB/s   	75 MB/s    	1.17 kIOPS 	1.17 kIOPS  	26.830538ms ± 7.643051ms  	27.709602ms ± 7.830965ms  	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	76 MB/s   	77 MB/s    	1.19 kIOPS 	1.19 kIOPS  	26.255337ms ± 7.302592ms  	27.256805ms ± 7.388266ms  	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	32 MB/s   	33 MB/s    	505.26 IOPS	508.66 IOPS 	65.170269ms ± 747.794957ms	61.062186ms ± 695.614904ms	0s ± 0s                
+Random reads/writes (64k)               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	79 MB/s   	79 MB/s    	1.23 kIOPS 	1.23 kIOPS  	25.861503ms ± 171.669777ms	25.992302ms ± 164.647788ms	0s ± 0s                
+sync test                               	local                                             	0 B/s     	1.9 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	865.16 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	100.95µs ± 268.722µs      	1.054051ms ± 365.377µs 
+sync test                               	Tart                                              	0 B/s     	1.6 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	704.13 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	133.886µs ± 390.263µs     	1.285085ms ± 575.27µs  
+sync test                               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	0 B/s     	1.6 MB/s   	0 IOPS     	728.26 IOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	129.246µs ± 472.724µs     	1.242713ms ± 1.281286ms
+sync test                               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	0 B/s     	35 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	15.67 kIOPS 	0s ± 0s                   	11.319µs ± 24.771µs       	51.731µs ± 42.208µs    
+sync test                               	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	0 B/s     	17 MB/s    	0 IOPS     	7.39 kIOPS  	0s ± 0s                   	21.23µs ± 81.749µs        	113.239µs ± 191.266µs  
+```
+
+### March 23, 2025
+
+Host:
+
+* Hardware: Mac mini (Apple M2 Pro, 8 performance and 4 efficiency cores, 32 GB RAM, `Mac14,12`)
+* OS: macOS Sequoia 15.3.2
+* Xcode: 16.2
+
+Guest:
+
+* Hardware: [Virtualization.Framework](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization)
+* OS: macOS Sonoma 15.3.2 
+* Xcode: 16.2
+
+```
+Name                    	Executor                                          	Time 
+XcodeBenchmark (d869315)	local                                             	2m19s
+XcodeBenchmark (d869315)	Tart                                              	3m59s
+XcodeBenchmark (d869315)	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none")               	3m48s
+XcodeBenchmark (d869315)	Tart (--root-disk-opts="caching=cached")          	3m35s
+XcodeBenchmark (d869315)	Tart (--root-disk-opts="sync=none,caching=cached")	3m14s
+```

benchmark/go.mod

@@ -1,21 +1,24 @@
 module github.com/cirruslabs/tart/benchmark
 
 go 1.22.1
+toolchain go1.24.1
 
 require (
 	github.com/avast/retry-go/v4 v4.5.1
 	github.com/dustin/go-humanize v1.0.1
 	github.com/google/uuid v1.6.0
 	github.com/gosuri/uitable v0.0.4
+	github.com/shirou/gopsutil v3.21.11+incompatible
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.9.0
 	go.uber.org/zap v1.27.0
-	golang.org/x/crypto v0.21.0
+	golang.org/x/crypto v0.35.0
 )
 
 require (
 	github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 // indirect
 	github.com/fatih/color v1.16.0 // indirect
+	github.com/go-ole/go-ole v1.2.6 // indirect
 	github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap v1.1.0 // indirect
 	github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.1.13 // indirect
 	github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.20 // indirect
@@ -23,7 +26,8 @@ require (
 	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 // indirect
 	github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.4.7 // indirect
 	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5 // indirect
+	github.com/yusufpapurcu/wmi v1.2.4 // indirect
 	go.uber.org/multierr v1.11.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.18.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.30.0 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 )

benchmark/go.sum

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ github.com/dustin/go-humanize v1.0.1 h1:GzkhY7T5VNhEkwH0PVJgjz+fX1rhBrR7pRT3mDkp
 github.com/dustin/go-humanize v1.0.1/go.mod h1:Mu1zIs6XwVuF/gI1OepvI0qD18qycQx+mFykh5fBlto=
 github.com/fatih/color v1.16.0 h1:zmkK9Ngbjj+K0yRhTVONQh1p/HknKYSlNT+vZCzyokM=
 github.com/fatih/color v1.16.0/go.mod h1:fL2Sau1YI5c0pdGEVCbKQbLXB6edEj1ZgiY4NijnWvE=
+github.com/go-ole/go-ole v1.2.6 h1:/Fpf6oFPoeFik9ty7siob0G6Ke8QvQEuVcuChpwXzpY=
+github.com/go-ole/go-ole v1.2.6/go.mod h1:pprOEPIfldk/42T2oK7lQ4v4JSDwmV0As9GaiUsvbm0=
 github.com/google/uuid v1.6.0 h1:NIvaJDMOsjHA8n1jAhLSgzrAzy1Hgr+hNrb57e+94F0=
 github.com/google/uuid v1.6.0/go.mod h1:TIyPZe4MgqvfeYDBFedMoGGpEw/LqOeaOT+nhxU+yHo=
 github.com/gosuri/uitable v0.0.4 h1:IG2xLKRvErL3uhY6e1BylFzG+aJiwQviDDTfOKeKTpY=
@@ -26,26 +28,31 @@ github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.2.0/go.mod h1:J6wj4VEh+S6ZtnVlnTBMWIodfgj8LQOQFoIToxlJ
 github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.4.7 h1:WUdvkW8uEhrYfLC4ZzdpI2ztxP1I582+49Oc5Mq64VQ=
 github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.4.7/go.mod h1:FN3SvrM+Zdj16jyLfmOkMNblXMcoc8DfTHruCPUcx88=
 github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.1.0/go.mod h1:+Rmxgy9KzJVeS9/2gXHxylqXiyQDYRxCVz55jmeOWTM=
+github.com/shirou/gopsutil v3.21.11+incompatible h1:+1+c1VGhc88SSonWP6foOcLhvnKlUeu/erjjvaPEYiI=
+github.com/shirou/gopsutil v3.21.11+incompatible/go.mod h1:5b4v6he4MtMOwMlS0TUMTu2PcXUg8+E1lC7eC3UO/RA=
 github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0 h1:7aJaZx1B85qltLMc546zn58BxxfZdR/W22ej9CFoEf0=
 github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0/go.mod h1:WXLWApfZ71AjXPya3WOlMsY9yMs7YeiHhFVlvLyhcho=
 github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5 h1:iy+VFUOCP1a+8yFto/drg2CJ5u0yRoB7fZw3DKv/JXA=
 github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5/go.mod h1:McXfInJRrz4CZXVZOBLb0bTZqETkiAhM9Iw0y3An2Bg=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.9.0 h1:HtqpIVDClZ4nwg75+f6Lvsy/wHu+3BoSGCbBAcpTsTg=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.9.0/go.mod h1:r2ic/lqez/lEtzL7wO/rwa5dbSLXVDPFyf8C91i36aY=
+github.com/yusufpapurcu/wmi v1.2.4 h1:zFUKzehAFReQwLys1b/iSMl+JQGSCSjtVqQn9bBrPo0=
+github.com/yusufpapurcu/wmi v1.2.4/go.mod h1:SBZ9tNy3G9/m5Oi98Zks0QjeHVDvuK0qfxQmPyzfmi0=
 go.uber.org/goleak v1.3.0 h1:2K3zAYmnTNqV73imy9J1T3WC+gmCePx2hEGkimedGto=
 go.uber.org/goleak v1.3.0/go.mod h1:CoHD4mav9JJNrW/WLlf7HGZPjdw8EucARQHekz1X6bE=
 go.uber.org/multierr v1.11.0 h1:blXXJkSxSSfBVBlC76pxqeO+LN3aDfLQo+309xJstO0=
 go.uber.org/multierr v1.11.0/go.mod h1:20+QtiLqy0Nd6FdQB9TLXag12DsQkrbs3htMFfDN80Y=
 go.uber.org/zap v1.27.0 h1:aJMhYGrd5QSmlpLMr2MftRKl7t8J8PTZPA732ud/XR8=
 go.uber.org/zap v1.27.0/go.mod h1:GB2qFLM7cTU87MWRP2mPIjqfIDnGu+VIO4V/SdhGo2E=
-golang.org/x/crypto v0.21.0 h1:X31++rzVUdKhX5sWmSOFZxx8UW/ldWx55cbf08iNAMA=
-golang.org/x/crypto v0.21.0/go.mod h1:0BP7YvVV9gBbVKyeTG0Gyn+gZm94bibOW5BjDEYAOMs=
+golang.org/x/crypto v0.35.0 h1:b15kiHdrGCHrP6LvwaQ3c03kgNhhiMgvlhxHQhmg2Xs=
+golang.org/x/crypto v0.35.0/go.mod h1:dy7dXNW32cAb/6/PRuTNsix8T+vJAqvuIy5Bli/x0YQ=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190916202348-b4ddaad3f8a3/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220811171246-fbc7d0a398ab/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.6.0/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
-golang.org/x/sys v0.18.0 h1:DBdB3niSjOA/O0blCZBqDefyWNYveAYMNF1Wum0DYQ4=
-golang.org/x/sys v0.18.0/go.mod h1:/VUhepiaJMQUp4+oa/7Zr1D23ma6VTLIYjOOTFZPUcA=
-golang.org/x/term v0.18.0 h1:FcHjZXDMxI8mM3nwhX9HlKop4C0YQvCVCdwYl2wOtE8=
-golang.org/x/term v0.18.0/go.mod h1:ILwASektA3OnRv7amZ1xhE/KTR+u50pbXfZ03+6Nx58=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.30.0 h1:QjkSwP/36a20jFYWkSue1YwXzLmsV5Gfq7Eiy72C1uc=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.30.0/go.mod h1:/VUhepiaJMQUp4+oa/7Zr1D23ma6VTLIYjOOTFZPUcA=
+golang.org/x/term v0.29.0 h1:L6pJp37ocefwRRtYPKSWOWzOtWSxVajvz2ldH/xi3iU=
+golang.org/x/term v0.29.0/go.mod h1:6bl4lRlvVuDgSf3179VpIxBF0o10JUpXWOnI7nErv7s=
 gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405 h1:yhCVgyC4o1eVCa2tZl7eS0r+SDo693bJlVdllGtEeKM=
 gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405/go.mod h1:Co6ibVJAznAaIkqp8huTwlJQCZ016jof/cbN4VW5Yz0=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 h1:fxVm/GzAzEWqLHuvctI91KS9hhNmmWOoWu0XTYJS7CA=

benchmark/internal/command/fio/benchmark.go

@@ -7,23 +7,63 @@ type Benchmark struct {
 
 var benchmarks = []Benchmark{
 	{
-		Name: "Random writing of 1MB",
-		Command: "fio --rw randwrite --runtime 30 --time_based --unlink 1 --output-format json " +
-			"--size 1MB --name unnamed --numjobs 1 --iodepth 1 --end_fsync 1",
+		// Ars Technica's "Single 4KiB random write process" test[1]
+		// with JSON output and created file cleanup
+		//
+		// [1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/how-fast-are-your-disks-find-out-the-open-source-way-with-fio/
+		Name: "Single 4KiB random write process",
+		Command: "fio --name=benchmark --ioengine=posixaio --rw=randwrite --bs=4k --size=4g --numjobs=1 --iodepth=1 --runtime=60 --time_based --end_fsync=1" +
+			" --output-format json --unlink 1",
 	},
 	{
-		Name: "Random writing of 10MB",
-		Command: "fio --rw randwrite --runtime 30 --time_based --unlink 1 --output-format json " +
-			"--size 10MB --name unnamed --numjobs 1 --iodepth 1 --end_fsync 1",
+		// Ars Technica's "16 parallel 64KiB random write processes" test[1]
+		// with JSON outpu, created file cleanup and group reporting (for
+		// easier analysis)
+		//
+		// [1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/how-fast-are-your-disks-find-out-the-open-source-way-with-fio/
+		Name: "16 parallel 64KiB random write processes",
+		Command: "fio --name=benchmark --ioengine=posixaio --rw=randwrite --bs=64k --size=256m --numjobs=16 --iodepth=16 --runtime=60 --time_based --end_fsync=1" +
+			" --output-format json --unlink 1 --group_reporting",
 	},
 	{
-		Name: "Random writing of 100MB",
-		Command: "fio --rw randwrite --runtime 30 --time_based --unlink 1 --output-format json " +
-			"--size 100MB --name unnamed --numjobs 1 --iodepth 1 --end_fsync 1",
+		// Ars Technica's "16 parallel 64KiB random write processes" test[1]
+		// with JSON output, created file cleanup and reduced file I/O size
+		// from 16 to 10 GB to avoid "No space left on device".
+		//
+		// [1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/how-fast-are-your-disks-find-out-the-open-source-way-with-fio/
+		Name: "Single 1MiB random write process",
+		Command: "fio --name=benchmark --ioengine=posixaio --rw=randwrite --bs=1m --size=10g --numjobs=1 --iodepth=1 --runtime=60 --time_based --end_fsync=1" +
+			" --output-format json --unlink 1",
 	},
 	{
-		Name: "Random writing of 1000MB",
-		Command: "fio --rw randwrite --runtime 30 --time_based --unlink 1 --output-format json " +
-			"--size 1000MB --name unnamed --numjobs 1 --iodepth 1 --end_fsync 1",
+		// Oracle's "Test random read/writes" (in IOPS Performance Tests[1]) category
+		// with JSON output, created file cleanup, without ETA newline, without custom
+		// file path, with file I/O size reduced from 500GB to 2GB to prevent
+		// "No space left on device" and with posixaio instead of libaio.
+		//
+		// [1]: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Block/References/samplefiocommandslinux.htm#FIO_Commands
+		Name: "Random reads/writes (4k)",
+		Command: "fio --name=benchmark --size=2GB --direct=1 --rw=randrw --bs=4k --ioengine=posixaio --iodepth=256 --runtime=120 --numjobs=4 --time_based --group_reporting" +
+			" --output-format json --unlink 1",
+	},
+	{
+		// Oracle's "Test random read/writes" (in Throughput Performance Tests[1]) category
+		// with JSON output, created file cleanup, without ETA newline, without custom
+		// file path, with file I/O size reduced from 500GB to 2GB to prevent
+		// "No space left on device" and with posixaio instead of libaio.
+		//
+		// [1]: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Block/References/samplefiocommandslinux.htm#Throughput_Performance_Tests
+		Name: "Random reads/writes (64k)",
+		Command: "fio --name=benchmark --size=2GB --direct=1 --rw=randrw --bs=64k --ioengine=posixaio --iodepth=64 --runtime=120 --numjobs=4 --time_based --group_reporting" +
+			" --output-format json --unlink 1",
+	},
+	{
+		// RedHat's "How can I test to see if my environment is fast enough for etcd"[1]
+		// with custom name
+		//
+		// [1]: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5726511
+		Name: "sync test",
+		Command: "mkdir -p test-data && fio --name=benchmark --rw=write --ioengine=sync --fdatasync=1 --directory=test-data --size=22m --bs=2300" +
+			" --output-format json --unlink 1",
 	},
 }

benchmark/internal/command/fio/fio.go

@@ -1,20 +1,21 @@
 package fio
 
 import (
-	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
-	"github.com/cirruslabs/tart/benchmark/internal/executor"
-	"github.com/cirruslabs/tart/benchmark/internal/executor/local"
-	"github.com/cirruslabs/tart/benchmark/internal/executor/tart"
+	executorpkg "github.com/cirruslabs/tart/benchmark/internal/executor"
 	"github.com/dustin/go-humanize"
 	"github.com/gosuri/uitable"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 	"go.uber.org/zap"
+	"go.uber.org/zap/zapio"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
 )
 
 var debug bool
+var image string
+var prepare string
 
 func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 	cmd := &cobra.Command{
@@ -24,6 +25,8 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 	}
 
 	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&debug, "debug", false, "enable debug logging")
+	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&image, "image", "ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest", "image to use for testing")
+	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&prepare, "prepare", "", "command to run before running each benchmark")
 
 	return cmd
 }
@@ -41,28 +44,50 @@ func run(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 		_ = logger.Sync()
 	}()
 
-	executors, err := initializeExecutors(cmd.Context(), logger)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer func() {
-		errs := []error{err}
-
-		for _, executor := range executors {
-			if err := executor.Close(); err != nil {
-				errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("failed to close executor %s: %w", executor.Name(), err))
-			}
-		}
-
-		err = errors.Join(errs...)
-	}()
-
 	table := uitable.New()
-	table.AddRow("Name", "Executor", "Bandwidth", "I/O operations")
+	table.AddRow("Name", "Executor", "B/W (read)", "B/W (write)", "I/O (read)", "I/O (write)",
+		"Latency (read)", "Latency (write)", "Latency (sync)")
 
 	for _, benchmark := range benchmarks {
-		for _, executor := range executors {
-			logger.Sugar().Infof("running benchmark %q on %s executor", benchmark.Name, executor.Name())
+		for _, executorInitializer := range executorpkg.DefaultInitializers(cmd.Context(), image, logger) {
+			if prepare != "" {
+				shell := "/bin/sh"
+
+				if shellFromEnv, ok := os.LookupEnv("SHELL"); ok {
+					shell = shellFromEnv
+				}
+
+				logger.Sugar().Infof("running prepare command %q using shell %q",
+					prepare, shell)
+
+				cmd := exec.CommandContext(cmd.Context(), shell, "-c", prepare)
+
+				loggerWriter := &zapio.Writer{Log: logger, Level: zap.DebugLevel}
+
+				cmd.Stdout = loggerWriter
+				cmd.Stderr = loggerWriter
+
+				if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
+					return fmt.Errorf("failed to run prepare command %q: %v", prepare, err)
+				}
+			}
+
+			logger.Sugar().Infof("initializing executor %s", executorInitializer.Name)
+
+			executor, err := executorInitializer.Fn()
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			logger.Sugar().Infof("installing Flexible I/O tester (fio) on executor %s",
+				executorInitializer.Name)
+
+			if _, err := executor.Run(cmd.Context(), "brew install fio"); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			logger.Sugar().Infof("running benchmark %q on %s executor", benchmark.Name,
+				executorInitializer.Name)
 
 			stdout, err := executor.Run(cmd.Context(), benchmark.Command)
 			if err != nil {
@@ -82,12 +107,28 @@ func run(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 
 			job := fioResult.Jobs[0]
 
+			readBandwidth := humanize.Bytes(uint64(job.Read.BW)*humanize.KByte) + "/s"
+			readIOPS := humanize.SIWithDigits(job.Read.IOPS, 2, "IOPS")
+
+			logger.Sugar().Infof("read bandwidth: %s, read IOPS: %s, read latency: %s",
+				readBandwidth, readIOPS, job.Read.LatencyNS.String())
+
 			writeBandwidth := humanize.Bytes(uint64(job.Write.BW)*humanize.KByte) + "/s"
 			writeIOPS := humanize.SIWithDigits(job.Write.IOPS, 2, "IOPS")
 
-			logger.Sugar().Infof("write bandwidth: %s, write IOPS: %s\n", writeBandwidth, writeIOPS)
+			logger.Sugar().Infof("write bandwidth: %s, write IOPS: %s, write latency: %s",
+				writeBandwidth, writeIOPS, job.Write.LatencyNS.String())
 
-			table.AddRow(benchmark.Name, executor.Name(), writeBandwidth, writeIOPS)
+			logger.Sugar().Infof("sync latency: %s", job.Sync.LatencyNS.String())
+
+			table.AddRow(benchmark.Name, executorInitializer.Name, readBandwidth, writeBandwidth,
+				readIOPS, writeIOPS, job.Read.LatencyNS.String(), job.Write.LatencyNS.String(),
+				job.Sync.LatencyNS.String())
+
+			if err := executor.Close(); err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("failed to close executor %s: %w",
+					executorInitializer.Name, err)
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -95,37 +136,3 @@ func run(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 
 	return nil
 }
-
-func initializeExecutors(ctx context.Context, logger *zap.Logger) ([]executor.Executor, error) {
-	var result []executor.Executor
-
-	logger.Info("initializing local executor")
-
-	local, err := local.New(logger)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	result = append(result, local)
-
-	logger.Info("local executor initialized")
-
-	logger.Info("initializing Tart executor")
-
-	tart, err := tart.New(ctx, logger)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	result = append(result, tart)
-
-	logger.Info("Tart executor initialized")
-
-	for _, executor := range result {
-		logger.Sugar().Infof("installing Flexible I/O tester (fio) on %s executor", executor.Name())
-
-		if _, err := executor.Run(ctx, "brew install fio"); err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-	}
-
-	return result, nil
-}

benchmark/internal/command/fio/json.go

@@ -1,15 +1,35 @@
 package fio
 
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"time"
+)
+
 type Result struct {
 	Jobs []Job `json:"jobs"`
 }
 
 type Job struct {
 	Name  string `json:"jobname"`
-	Write Write  `json:"write"`
+	Read  Stats  `json:"read"`
+	Write Stats  `json:"write"`
+	Sync  Stats  `json:"sync"`
 }
 
-type Write struct {
-	BW   float64 `json:"bw"`
-	IOPS float64 `json:"iops"`
+type Stats struct {
+	BW        float64 `json:"bw"`
+	IOPS      float64 `json:"iops"`
+	LatencyNS Latency `json:"lat_ns"`
+}
+
+type Latency struct {
+	Mean   float64 `json:"mean"`
+	Stddev float64 `json:"stddev"`
+}
+
+func (latency Latency) String() string {
+	meanDuration := time.Duration(latency.Mean) * time.Nanosecond
+	stddevDuration := time.Duration(latency.Stddev) * time.Nanosecond
+
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%v ± %v", meanDuration, stddevDuration)
 }

benchmark/internal/command/root.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package command
 
 import (
 	"github.com/cirruslabs/tart/benchmark/internal/command/fio"
+	"github.com/cirruslabs/tart/benchmark/internal/command/xcode"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 )
 
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
 
 	cmd.AddCommand(
 		fio.NewCommand(),
+		xcode.NewCommand(),
 	)
 
 	return cmd

benchmark/internal/command/xcode/benchmarks.go

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package xcode
+
+type Benchmark struct {
+	Name    string
+	Command string
+}
+
+var benchmarks = []Benchmark{
+	{
+		Name:    "XcodeBenchmark (d869315)",
+		Command: "git clone https://github.com/devMEremenko/XcodeBenchmark.git && cd XcodeBenchmark && git reset --hard d86931529ada1df2a1c6646dd85958c360954065 && xcrun simctl list && sh benchmark.sh",
+	},
+}

benchmark/internal/command/xcode/output.go

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+package xcode
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"regexp"
+	"time"
+)
+
+type Output struct {
+	Started time.Time
+	Ended   time.Time
+}
+
+func ParseOutput(s string) (*Output, error) {
+	// Ensure that the build has succeeded
+	matched, err := regexp.MatchString("(?m)^\\*\\* BUILD SUCCEEDED \\*\\*.*$", s)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to parse output: regexp failed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if !matched {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to parse output: \"** BUILD SUCCEEDED **\" string " +
+			"not found on a separate line, make sure you have Xcode installed")
+	}
+
+	re := regexp.MustCompile("Started\\s+(?P<started>.*)\\n.*Ended\\s+(?P<ended>.*)\\n")
+
+	matches := re.FindStringSubmatch(s)
+
+	if len(matches) != re.NumSubexp()+1 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to parse output: cannot find Started and Ended times")
+	}
+
+	startedRaw := matches[re.SubexpIndex("started")]
+	started, err := time.Parse(time.TimeOnly, startedRaw)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to parse started time %q: unsupported format", startedRaw)
+	}
+
+	endedRaw := matches[re.SubexpIndex("ended")]
+	ended, err := time.Parse(time.TimeOnly, endedRaw)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to parse ended time %q: unsupported format", startedRaw)
+	}
+
+	return &Output{
+		Started: started,
+		Ended:   ended,
+	}, nil
+}

benchmark/internal/command/xcode/output_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package xcode_test
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"github.com/cirruslabs/tart/benchmark/internal/command/xcode"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func TestParseOutput(t *testing.T) {
+	result, err := xcode.ParseOutput(`** BUILD SUCCEEDED ** [219.713 sec]
+
+System Version: 14.6
+Xcode 15.4
+Hardware Overview
+      Model Name: Apple Virtual Machine 1
+      Model Identifier: VirtualMac2,1
+      Total Number of Cores: 4
+      Memory: 8 GB
+
+✅ XcodeBenchmark has completed
+1️⃣  Take a screenshot of this window (Cmd + Shift + 4 + Space) and resize to include:
+	- Build Time (See ** BUILD SUCCEEDED ** [XYZ sec])
+	- System Version
+	- Xcode Version
+	- Hardware Overview
+	- Started 13:46:20
+	- Ended   13:50:02
+	- Date Thu Jan 16 13:50:02 UTC 2025
+
+2️⃣  Share your results at https://github.com/devMEremenko/XcodeBenchmark
+`)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	fmt.Println(result)
+	require.Equal(t, 222*time.Second, result.Ended.Sub(result.Started))
+}

benchmark/internal/command/xcode/xcode.go

@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+package xcode
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	executorpkg "github.com/cirruslabs/tart/benchmark/internal/executor"
+	"github.com/gosuri/uitable"
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"go.uber.org/zap"
+	"go.uber.org/zap/zapio"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+)
+
+var debug bool
+var image string
+var prepare string
+
+func NewCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "xcode",
+		Short: "run XCode benchmarks",
+		RunE:  run,
+	}
+
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&debug, "debug", false, "enable debug logging")
+	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&image, "image", "ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-xcode:latest", "image to use for testing")
+	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&prepare, "prepare", "", "command to run before running each benchmark")
+
+	return cmd
+}
+
+func run(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+	config := zap.NewProductionConfig()
+	if debug {
+		config.Level = zap.NewAtomicLevelAt(zap.DebugLevel)
+	}
+	logger, err := config.Build()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer func() {
+		_ = logger.Sync()
+	}()
+
+	table := uitable.New()
+	table.AddRow("Name", "Executor", "Time")
+
+	for _, benchmark := range benchmarks {
+		for _, executorInitializer := range executorpkg.DefaultInitializers(cmd.Context(), image, logger) {
+			if prepare != "" {
+				shell := "/bin/sh"
+
+				if shellFromEnv, ok := os.LookupEnv("SHELL"); ok {
+					shell = shellFromEnv
+				}
+
+				logger.Sugar().Infof("running prepare command %q using shell %q",
+					prepare, shell)
+
+				cmd := exec.CommandContext(cmd.Context(), shell, "-c", prepare)
+
+				loggerWriter := &zapio.Writer{Log: logger, Level: zap.DebugLevel}
+
+				cmd.Stdout = loggerWriter
+				cmd.Stderr = loggerWriter
+
+				if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
+					return fmt.Errorf("failed to run prepare command %q: %v", prepare, err)
+				}
+			}
+
+			logger.Sugar().Infof("initializing executor %s", executorInitializer.Name)
+
+			executor, err := executorInitializer.Fn()
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			logger.Sugar().Infof("running benchmark %q on %s executor", benchmark.Name,
+				executorInitializer.Name)
+
+			stdout, err := executor.Run(cmd.Context(), benchmark.Command)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			output, err := ParseOutput(string(stdout))
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			duration := output.Ended.Sub(output.Started)
+
+			logger.Sugar().Infof("Xcode benchmark duration: %s", duration)
+
+			table.AddRow(benchmark.Name, executorInitializer.Name, duration)
+
+			if err := executor.Close(); err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("failed to close executor %s: %w",
+					executorInitializer.Name, err)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	fmt.Println(table.String())
+
+	return nil
+}

benchmark/internal/executor/executor.go

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import (
 )
 
 type Executor interface {
-	Name() string
 	Run(ctx context.Context, command string) ([]byte, error)
 	Close() error
 }

benchmark/internal/executor/initializer.go

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+package executor
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"github.com/cirruslabs/tart/benchmark/internal/executor/local"
+	"github.com/cirruslabs/tart/benchmark/internal/executor/tart"
+	"go.uber.org/zap"
+)
+
+type Initializer struct {
+	Name string
+	Fn   func() (Executor, error)
+}
+
+func DefaultInitializers(ctx context.Context, image string, logger *zap.Logger) []Initializer {
+	return []Initializer{
+		{
+			Name: "local",
+			Fn: func() (Executor, error) {
+				return local.New(logger)
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			Name: "Tart",
+			Fn: func() (Executor, error) {
+				return tart.New(ctx, image, nil, logger)
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			Name: "Tart (--root-disk-opts=\"sync=none\")",
+			Fn: func() (Executor, error) {
+				return tart.New(ctx, image, []string{
+					"--root-disk-opts",
+					"sync=none",
+				}, logger)
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			Name: "Tart (--root-disk-opts=\"caching=cached\")",
+			Fn: func() (Executor, error) {
+				return tart.New(ctx, image, []string{
+					"--root-disk-opts",
+					"caching=cached",
+				}, logger)
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			Name: "Tart (--root-disk-opts=\"sync=none,caching=cached\")",
+			Fn: func() (Executor, error) {
+				return tart.New(ctx, image, []string{
+					"--root-disk-opts",
+					"sync=none,caching=cached",
+				}, logger)
+			},
+		},
+	}
+}

benchmark/internal/executor/tart/tart.go

@@ -7,15 +7,18 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"github.com/avast/retry-go/v4"
 	"github.com/google/uuid"
+	"github.com/shirou/gopsutil/mem"
 	"go.uber.org/zap"
+	"go.uber.org/zap/zapio"
 	"golang.org/x/crypto/ssh"
+	"io"
 	"net"
+	"runtime"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 )
 
-const baseImage = "ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest"
-
 type Tart struct {
 	vmRunCancel context.CancelFunc
 	vmName      string
@@ -23,17 +26,34 @@ type Tart struct {
 	logger      *zap.Logger
 }
 
-func New(ctx context.Context, logger *zap.Logger) (*Tart, error) {
+func New(ctx context.Context, image string, runArgsExtra []string, logger *zap.Logger) (*Tart, error) {
 	tart := &Tart{
 		vmName: fmt.Sprintf("tart-benchmark-%s", uuid.NewString()),
 		logger: logger,
 	}
 
-	if err := Cmd(ctx, tart.logger, "pull", baseImage); err != nil {
+	if err := Cmd(ctx, tart.logger, "pull", image); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	if err := Cmd(ctx, tart.logger, "clone", baseImage, tart.vmName); err != nil {
+	if err := Cmd(ctx, tart.logger, "clone", image, tart.vmName); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	vmStat, err := mem.VirtualMemory()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	cpus := strconv.Itoa(runtime.NumCPU())
+	memory := strconv.FormatUint(vmStat.Total/1024/1024, 10)
+	logger.Info("Setting resources", zap.String("cpus", cpus), zap.String("memory", memory))
+	setResourcesArguments := []string{
+		"set", tart.vmName,
+		"--cpu", cpus,
+		"--memory", memory,
+	}
+	if err := Cmd(ctx, tart.logger, setResourcesArguments...); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
@@ -41,7 +61,11 @@ func New(ctx context.Context, logger *zap.Logger) (*Tart, error) {
 	tart.vmRunCancel = vmRunCancel
 
 	go func() {
-		_ = Cmd(vmRunCtx, tart.logger, "run", "--no-graphics", tart.vmName)
+		runArgs := []string{"run", "--no-graphics", tart.vmName}
+
+		runArgs = append(runArgs, runArgsExtra...)
+
+		_ = Cmd(vmRunCtx, tart.logger, runArgs...)
 	}()
 
 	ip, err := CmdWithOutput(ctx, tart.logger, "ip", "--wait", "60", tart.vmName)
@@ -105,10 +129,12 @@ func (tart *Tart) Run(ctx context.Context, command string) ([]byte, error) {
 	}()
 	defer monitorCancel()
 
+	loggerWriter := &zapio.Writer{Log: tart.logger, Level: zap.DebugLevel}
 	stdoutBuf := &bytes.Buffer{}
 
 	sshSession.Stdin = bytes.NewBufferString(command)
-	sshSession.Stdout = stdoutBuf
+	sshSession.Stdout = io.MultiWriter(stdoutBuf, loggerWriter)
+	sshSession.Stderr = loggerWriter
 
 	if err := sshSession.Shell(); err != nil {
 		return nil, err

benchmark/internal/executor/tart/tart_test.go

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import (
 func TestTart(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 
-	tart, err := tart.New(ctx, zap.NewNop())
+	tart, err := tart.New(ctx, "ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest", nil, zap.NewNop())
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 
 	output, err := tart.Run(ctx, "echo \"this is a test\"")

docs/.markdownlint.yml

@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@
 "MD033": false # Inline HTML
 "MD041": false # First line in file should be a top level heading
 "MD045": false # OK not to have a description for an image
-"MD046": false #  Code block style [Expected: fenced; Actual: indented]
+"MD046": false #  Code block style [Expected: fenced; Actual: indented]
+"MD059": false # It's OK to have "here" links

docs/blog/posts/2025-06-01-tart-guest-agent.md

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+---
+draft: false
+date: 2025-06-01
+search:
+  exclude: true
+authors:
+  - edigaryev
+categories:
+  - announcement
+---
+
+# Bridging the gaps with the Tart Guest Agent
+
+We're introducing a new improvement for the Tart usability experience: a [Tart Guest Agent](https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart-guest-agent).
+
+This agent provides automatic disk resizing, seamless clipboard sharing for macOS guests (a [long-awaited](https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/issues/14) feature), and the ability to run commands, without SSH and networking, using the new `tart exec` command.
+
+As of recently, we include this agent in all non-vanilla Cirrus Labs images, so you likely won't need to do anything to benefit from these usability improvements.
+
+Read on to learn why we chose to implement the agent from scratch in Golang, and which features we plan to add next.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+## Existing solutions
+
+Tart uses the Virtualization.Framework, and the latter implemented a SPICE client some time ago, however, one piece was missing: the agent that runs inside the guest.
+
+The original [SPICE `vdagent` implementation](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent) only supports Linux. While [a fork](https://github.com/utmapp/vd_agent) from the UTM project adds macOS support, the long-term viability of maintaining this fork without upstreaming changes is uncertain.
+
+Moreover, if we were to add some extra functionality (as we did), there would be more than one agent binary to ship and install, which complicates maintenance and makes it harder to explain to users why we need a bunch of agent binaries.
+
+In the end, we decided to go with our own solution, one that would easily accomodate future ideas.
+
+## Rolling our own agent
+
+After carefully inspecting the [`vdagent` protocol](https://www.spice-space.org/agent-protocol.html) we've realized that the clipboard sharing is actually a small subset of the whole protocol, making it relatively simple to implement.
+
+Thanks to Golang, we were able to implement the protocol much faster than we could have with a lower-level language like C (with all due respect), which requires manual memory management and complex event loops.
+
+As for the command execution via `tart exec`, we've decided to go with gRPC with a rather simple protocol:
+
+![An visualization of gRPC protocol used by the Tart Guest Agent](../images/tart-guest-agent-grpc-protocol.png)
+
+For each `tart exec` invocation a new gRPC `Exec` bidirectional stream is established with the agent running inside a VM. After the gRPC stream is established, `tart exec` sends a command to execute to the guest and streams the I/O. Once the command terminates, `tart exec` collects the process exit code and quits with exactly that exit code.
+
+Using gRPC simplifies `tart exec` implementation because of code generation and forms a nice bridge between the host and the guest which allows us to easily expand the protocol later down the road when we decide to introduce new features.
+
+Thanks to [gRPC Swift](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-swift), which is built on top of [SwiftNIO](https://github.com/apple/swift-nio), we get [`async/await`](https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/concurrency/) support for free, further simplifying the `tart exec` logic.
+
+As for the Tart Guest Agent, the final result is a Golang binary that [can be customized](https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart-guest-agent?tab=readme-ov-file#guest-agent-for-tart-vms) depending on the execution context:
+
+* launchd global daemon — runs as a privileged user (`root`), has no clipboard access
+    * `--resize-disk` — resizes the disk when there's a free space at the end of a disk (assuming that one previously ran `tart set --disk-size`)
+* launchd global agent — runs as a normal user (`admin`), has clipboard access
+    * `--run-vdagent` — clipboard sharing
+    * `--run-rpc` — `tart exec` and new functionality in the future
+
+We’ve also introduced `--run-daemon` (which implies `--resize-disk`) and `--run-agent` (which implies both `--run-vdagent` and `--run-rpc`) to help run the most appropriate functionality based on the given context.
+
+## Future plans
+
+First, we'd like to thank our paid clients, without whom this feature wouldn't have been possible.
+
+[Become one now](../../licensing.md) and enjoy higher allowances for Tart VMs and Orchard workers—while helping ensure that our roadmap aligns with your company's needs.
+
+In the near future we plan to implement:
+
+* Linux support — to provide seamless experience for Linux guests too
+* a new `tart ip` resolver — to provide a more robust IP retrieval facility for Linux guests, which often struggle to populate the host's ARP table with their network activity
+* `tart cp` command — to copy files from/to guest VMs
+
+Stay tuned, and feel free to send us feedback on [GitHub](https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart) and [Twitter](https://x.com/cirrus_labs)!

docs/faq.md

@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@ title: Frequently Asked Questions
 description: Advanced configuration and troubleshooting tips for advanced configurations.
 ---
 
+## Troubleshooting crashes
+
+If you experience a crash or encounter another error while using the tart executable, you can collect debug information to assist with troubleshooting. Run the following command in a separate terminal window to gather logs from the Tart process and the macOS Virtualization subsystem:
+
+```shell
+log stream --predicate='process=="tart" OR process CONTAINS "Virtualization"' > tart.log
+```
+
+While the events are being streamed, attempt to reproduce the issue. Once the issue is reproduced, stop the streaming by pressing Ctrl+C. Then, attach the tart.log file to your report.
+
 ## VM location on disk
 
 Tart stores all its files in `~/.tart/` directory. Local images that you can run are stored in `~/.tart/vms/`.
@@ -13,12 +23,12 @@ Remote images are pulled into `~/.tart/cache/OCIs/`.
 ## Nested virtualization support?
 
 Tart is limited by functionality of Apple's `Virtualization.Framework`. At the moment `Virtualization.Framework`
-doesn't support nested virtualization.
+supports nested virtualization only on M3 or M4 chips running macOS 15 (Sequoia). By default, it is disabled, but can be enabled by passing the `--nested` flag to `tart run`.
 
 ## Connecting to a service running on host
 
 To connect from within a virtual machine to a service running on the host machine
-please first make sure that the service is binded to `0.0.0.0`.
+please first make sure that the service is bound to `0.0.0.0`.
 
 Then from within a virtual machine you can access the service using the router's IP address that you can get either from `Preferences -> Network`
 or by running the following command in the Terminal:
@@ -29,7 +39,7 @@ netstat -nr | grep default | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}'
 
 Note: that accessing host is only possible with the default NAT network. If you are running your virtual machines with
 [Softnet](https://github.com/cirruslabs/softnet) (via `tart run --net-softnet <VM NAME>)`, then the network isolation
-is stricter and it's not only possible to access the host.
+is stricter and it's not possible to access the host.
 
 ## Changing the default NAT subnet
 
@@ -57,7 +67,66 @@ This issue is worked around automatically [when using Softnet](http://github.com
 sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.InternetSharing.default.plist bootpd -dict DHCPLeaseTimeSecs -int 600
 ```
 
-Note that this tweak persists across reboots, so normally you'll only need to do it once per new host.
+This tweak persists across reboots, so normally you'll only need to do it once per new host.
+
+If that doesn't help after starting a new VM, it's possible that the `/var/db/dhcpd_leases` file is already overfilled with 86,400-second leases. You can remove it with the following command and try starting a new VM again:
+
+```shell
+sudo rm /var/db/dhcpd_leases
+```
+
+And no worries, this file will be re-created on the next `tart run`.
+
+## Unsupported DHCP client identifiers
+
+Due to the limitations of the macOS built-in DHCP server, `tart ip` is unable to correctly report the IP addresses for VMs using DHCP client identifiers that are not based on VMs link-layer addresses (MAC addresses).
+
+By default, when [no `--resolver=arp` is specified](#resolving-the-vms-ip-when-using-bridged-networking), `tart ip` reads the `/var/db/dhcpd_leases` file and tries to find the freshest entry that matches the VM's MAC address (based on the `hw_address` field).
+
+However, things starts to break when the VM uses a [DUID-EN](https://metebalci.com/blog/a-note-on-dhcpv6-duid-and-prefix-delegation#duid-types) identifier, for example. One of the notorious examples of this being Ubuntu, using this type of identifier by default on latest versions.  This results in the `/var/db/dhcpd_leases` entry for Ubuntu appearing as follows:
+
+```ini
+{
+    name=ubuntu
+    ip_address=192.168.64.3
+    hw_address=ff,f1:f5:dd:7f:0:2:0:0:ab:11:cb:fb:30:b0:97:b6:3a:67
+    identifier=ff,f1:f5:dd:7f:0:2:0:0:ab:11:cb:fb:30:b0:97:b6:3a:67
+    lease=0x678e2ce7
+}
+```
+
+Because the macOS built-in DHCP server overwrites the `hw_address` with the `identifier`, it leaves no information about the VM's MAC address to the `tart ip`.
+
+To avoid this issue, make sure that your VM only sends a DHCP client identifier (option 61) with link-layer address (MAC address) or that it doesn't send this option at all.
+
+For the aforementioned Ubuntu, the solution is outlined in the section [How to integrate with Windows DHCP Server](https://netplan.readthedocs.io/en/stable/examples/#how-to-integrate-with-windows-dhcp-server) of Canonical Netplan's documentation:
+
+```yaml
+network:
+  version: 2
+  ethernets:
+    enp3s0:
+      dhcp4: yes
+      dhcp-identifier: mac
+```
+
+## Resolving the VM's IP when using bridged networking
+
+When running `tart run` with `--net-bridged`, you need to invoke `tart ip` differently, because the macOS built-in DHCP server won't have any information about the VM's IP-address:
+
+```shell
+tart ip --resolver=arp <VM>
+```
+
+This causes the `tart ip` to consult the host's ARP table instead of the `/var/db/dhcpd_leases` file.
+
+Note that this method of resolving the IP heavily relies on the level of VM's activity on the network, namely, exchanging ARP requests between the guest and the host.
+
+This is normally not an issue for macOS VMs, but on Linux VMs you might need to install Samba, which includes a [NetBIOS name server](https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/nmbd.8.html) and exhibits the same behavior as macOS, resulting in the population of the ARP table of the host OS:
+
+```shell
+sudo apt-get install samba
+```
 
 ## Running login/clone/pull/push commands over SSH
 
@@ -89,7 +158,7 @@ or features supported. If there is some feature missing please don't hesitate to
 Instead of Anka Registry, Tart can work with any OCI-compatible container registry. This provides a much more consistent
 and scalable experience for distributing virtual machines.
 
-Tart doesn't yet have an analogue of Anka Controller for managing long living VMs but [soon will be](https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/issues/372).
+Tart does have an analogue of Anka Controller for managing VMs across a cluster of Mac hosts called [Orchard](orchard/quick-start.md).
 
 ## Automatic pruning
 
@@ -108,3 +177,70 @@ export TART_NO_AUTO_PRUNE=
 ```shell
 TART_NO_AUTO_PRUNE= tart pull ...
 ```
+
+## Disk resizing
+
+Disk resizing works on most cloud-ready Linux distributions out-of-the box (e.g. Ubuntu Cloud Images have the `cloud-initramfs-growroot` package installed that runs on boot) and on the rest of the distributions by running the `growpart` or `resize2fs` commands.
+
+For macOS, however, things are a bit more complicated, and you generally have two options: automated and manual resizing.
+
+For the automated option, you can use [Packer](https://www.packer.io/) with the [Packer builder for Tart VMs](https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/integrations/cirruslabs/tart/latest/components/builder/tart). The latter has two has configuration directives related to the disk resizing behavior:
+
+* [`disk_size_gb`](https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/integrations/cirruslabs/tart/latest/components/builder/tart#configuration-reference) — controls the target disk size in gigabytes
+* [`recovery_partition`](https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/integrations/cirruslabs/tart/latest/components/builder/tart#configuration-reference) — controls what to do with the recovery partition when resizing the disk
+    * you can either keep, delete or relocate it to the end of the disk
+
+For the manual approach, you have to remove the recovery partition first, repair the disk and the resize the APFS container.
+
+To do this, first we'll need to identify the primary disk and the APFS containers by running the command below from within a VM:
+
+```shell
+diskutil list physical
+```
+
+For example, the output might look like this:
+
+```plain
+/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
+   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
+   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *100.0 GB   disk0
+   1:             Apple_APFS_ISC Container disk1         524.3 MB   disk0s1
+   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         44.1 GB    disk0s2
+   3:        Apple_APFS_Recovery Container disk2         5.4 GB     disk0s3
+                    (free space)                         50.0 GB    -
+```
+
+In the output, you'll normally see:
+
+* a single physical disk (`disk0`)
+* APFS container with the system partition which we're going to resize (`disk0s2`)
+* APFS container with the recovery partition which we're going to delete (`disk0s3`)
+* `(free space)` which we'll put to use
+
+To proceed, boot the VM in recovery mode using `tart run --recovery` and choose the "Options" item:
+
+![](assets/images/faq/tart-run-recovery-options.png){width="640" .center}
+
+When the recovery OS boots, open the Terminal app:
+
+![](assets/images/faq/tart-run-recovery-terminal.png){width="720" .center}
+
+In Terminal app, invoke the command below to remove the recovery partition:
+
+```shell
+diskutil eraseVolume free free disk0s3
+```
+
+Now, repair the disk:
+
+```shell
+yes | diskutil repairDisk disk0
+```
+
+Finally, resize the system APFS container to take all the remaining space:
+
+```shell
+diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0
+```
+
+Now, you can shut down and `tart run` as you'd normally do.

docs/integrations/buildkite.md

@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ steps:
 - command: uname -a
   plugins:
   - cirruslabs/tart#main:
-    image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest
+    image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-base:latest
 ```
 
-This will run `uname -r` in a macOS Tart VM cloned from `ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest`.
+This will run `uname -r` in a macOS Tart VM cloned from `ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-base:latest`.
 
 See plugin's [Configuration section](https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart-buildkite-plugin#configuration) for the full list of available options.

docs/integrations/cirrus-cli.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ task:
   name: hello
   macos_instance:
     # can be a remote or a local virtual machine
-    image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest
+    image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-base:latest
   hello_script:
     - echo "Hello from within a Tart VM!"
     - echo "Here is my CPU info:"
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ exposes it via [`artifacts` instruction](https://cirrus-ci.org/guide/writing-tas
 task:
   name: Build
   macos_instance:
-    image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-xcode:latest
+    image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-xcode:latest
   build_script: swift build --product tart
   binary_artifacts:
     path: .build/debug/tart

docs/integrations/gitlab-runner.md

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Now you can use Tart Images in your `.gitlab-ci.yml`:
 ```yaml
 # You can use any remote Tart Image.
 # Tart Executor will pull it from the registry and use it for creating ephemeral VMs.
-image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest
+image: ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-base:latest
 
 test:
   tags:

docs/integrations/vm-management.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ description: Use Packer to build custom VM images, configure VMs and work with r
 
 ## Creating from scratch
 
-Tart supports macOS and Linux virtual machines. All commands like `run` and `pull` work the same way regarding of the underlying OS a particular VM image has.
+Tart supports macOS and Linux virtual machines. All commands like `run` and `pull` work the same way regardless of the underlying OS a particular VM image has.
 The only difference is how such VM images are created. Please check sections below for [macOS](#creating-a-macos-vm-image-from-scratch) and [Linux](#creating-a-linux-vm-image-from-scratch) instructions.
 
 ### Creating a macOS VM image from scratch
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ Tart can create VMs from `*.ipsw` files. You can download a specific `*.ipsw` fi
 use `latest` instead of a path to `*.ipsw` to download the latest available version:
 
 ```bash
-tart create --from-ipsw=latest sonoma-vanilla
-tart run sonoma-vanilla
+tart create --from-ipsw=latest sequoia-vanilla
+tart run sequoia-vanilla
 ```
 
 After the initial booting of the VM, you'll need to manually go through the macOS installation process. As a convention we recommend creating an `admin` user with an `admin` password. After the regular installation please do some additional modifications in the VM:
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ packer {
 }
 
 source "tart-cli" "tart" {
-  vm_base_name = "ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest"
-  vm_name      = "my-custom-sonoma"
+  vm_base_name = "ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-base:latest"
+  vm_name      = "my-custom-sequoia"
   cpu_count    = 4
   memory_gb    = 8
   disk_size_gb = 70

docs/orchard/architecture-and-security.md

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 ## Architecture
 
-Orchard cluster consists of two components:
+Orchard cluster consists of three components:
 
-* Controller — responsible for managing the cluster and scheduling of resources
+* Controller — responsible for managing the cluster and scheduling of resources 
 * Worker — responsible for executing the VMs
-* Client — responsible for creating, modifying and removing the resources on the Controller, can either be an Orchard CLI or [an API consumer](/orchard/integration-guide)
+* Client — responsible for creating, modifying and removing the resources on the Controller, can either be an [Orchard CLI](/orchard/using-orchard-cli) or [an API consumer](/orchard/integration-guide)
 
-Normally you deploy a single Controller that needs to be accessible to both the Clients and Workers. Then you can deploy the Workers, which can reside anywhere and be inaccessible to Clients directly, e.g. behind a NAT.
+At the moment, only one Controller instance is currently supported, while you can deploy one or more Workers and run any number of Clients.
+
+In terms of networking requirements, only Controller needs to be directly accessible from Workers and Clients, while Workers and Clients can be deployed and run anywhere (e.g. behind a NAT).
 
 ## Security
 

docs/orchard/deploying-controller.md

@@ -14,6 +14,47 @@ For example to use a secure, random value:
 ORCHARD_BOOTSTRAP_ADMIN_TOKEN=$(openssl rand -hex 32) orchard controller run
 ```
 
+## Customization
+
+Note that all the [Deployment Methods](#deployment-methods) essentially boil down to starting an `orchard controller run` command and keeping it alive.
+
+This means that by introducing additional command-line arguments, you can customize the Orchard Controller's behavior. Below, we list some of the common scenarios.
+
+### Customizing listening port
+
+* `--listen` — address to listen on (default `:6120`)
+
+### Customizing TLS
+
+* `--controller-cert` — use the controller certificate from the specified path instead of the auto-generated one (requires --controller-key)
+* `--controller-key` — use the controller certificate key from the specified path instead of the auto-generated one (requires --controller-cert)
+* `--insecure-no-tls` — disable TLS, making all connections to the controller unencrypted
+    * useful when deploying Orchard Controller behind a load balancer/ingress controller
+
+### Built-in SSH server
+
+Orchard Controller can act as a simple SSH server that port-forwards connections to the VMs running in the Orchard Cluster.
+
+This way you can completely skip the Orchard API when connecting to a given VM and only use the SSH client:
+
+```shell
+ssh -J <service account name>@orchard-controller.example.com <VM name>
+```
+
+To enable this functionality, pass `--listen-ssh` command-line argument to the `orchard controller run` command, for example:
+
+```ssh
+orchard controller run --listen-ssh 6122
+```
+
+Here's other command-line arguments associated with this functionality:
+
+* `--ssh-host-key` — use the SSH private host key from the specified path instead of the auto-generated one
+* `--insecure-ssh-no-client-auth` — allow SSH clients to connect to the controller's SSH server without authentication, thus only authenticating on the target worker/VM's SSH server
+    * useful when you already have strong credentials on your VMs, and you want to share these VMs to others without additionally giving out Orchard Cluster credentials
+
+Check out our [Jumping through the hoops: SSH jump host functionality in Orchard](/blog/2024/06/20/jumping-through-the-hoops-ssh-jump-host-functionality-in-orchard/) blog post for more information.
+
 ## Deployment Methods
 
 While you can always start `orchard controller run` manually with the required arguments, this method is not recommended due to lack of persistence.
@@ -31,7 +72,13 @@ gcloud compute addresses create orchard-ip --region=us-central1
 export ORCHARD_IP=$(gcloud compute addresses describe orchard-ip --format='value(address)' --region=us-central1)
 ```
 
-Once we have the IP address, we can create a new instance with Orchard Controller running inside a container:
+Then, ensure that there exist a firewall rule targeting `https-server` tag and allowing access to TCP port 443. If that's not the case, create one:
+
+```shell
+gcloud compute firewall-rules create default-allow-https --direction=INGRESS --priority=1000 --network=default --action=ALLOW --rules=tcp:443 --source-ranges=0.0.0.0/0 --target-tags=https-server
+```
+
+Once we have the IP address and the firewall rule set up, we can create a new instance with Orchard Controller running inside a container:
 
 ```bash
 gcloud compute instances create-with-container orchard-controller \

docs/orchard/deploying-workers.md

@@ -51,8 +51,6 @@ Then, create a launchd job definition in `/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cirruslabs.
   <dict>
     <key>Label</key>
     <string>org.cirruslabs.orchard.worker</string>
-    <key>UserName</key>
-    <string>admin</string>
     <key>Program</key>
     <string>/opt/homebrew/bin/orchard</string>
     <key>ProgramArguments</key>
@@ -60,6 +58,8 @@ Then, create a launchd job definition in `/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cirruslabs.
       <string>/opt/homebrew/bin/orchard</string>
       <string>worker</string>
       <string>run</string>
+      <string>--user</string>
+      <string>admin</string>
       <string>--bootstrap-token</string>
       <string>${BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN}</string>
       <string>orchard.example.com</string>

docs/orchard/integration-guide.md

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def main():
   # Create VM
   response = requests.post("http://127.0.0.1:6120/v1/vms", auth=basic_auth, json={
     "name": vm_name,
-    "image": "ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest",
+    "image": "ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-base:latest",
     "cpu": 4,
     "memory": 4096,
     "startup_script": {
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ func main() {
     Meta: v1.Meta{
       Name: vmName,
     },
-    Image:  "ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest",
+    Image:  "ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-base:latest",
     CPU:    4,
     Memory: 4096,
     StartupScript: &v1.VMScript{

docs/orchard/quick-start.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ more information.
 Now, let's create a Virtual Machine:
 
 ```shell
-orchard create vm --image ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest sonoma-base
+orchard create vm --image ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-base:latest sequoia-base
 ```
 
 You can check a list of VM resources to see if the Virtual Machine we've created above is already running:
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ instance. Orchard Controller instance is secured by default and all API calls ar
 To SSH into a VM, use the `orchard ssh` command:
 
 ```shell
-orchard ssh vm sonoma-base
+orchard ssh vm sequoia-base
 ```
 
 You can specify the `--username` and `--password` flags to specify the username/password pair to use for the SSH
@@ -58,14 +58,14 @@ You can also execute remote commands instead of spawning a login shell, similarl
 a command argument:
 
 ```shell
-orchard ssh vm sonoma-base "uname -a"
+orchard ssh vm sequoia-base "uname -a"
 ```
 
 You can execute scripts remotely this way, by telling the remote command-line interpreter to read from the standard
 input and using the redirection operator as follows:
 
 ```shell
-orchard ssh vm sonoma-base "bash -s" < script.sh
+orchard ssh vm sequoia-base "bash -s" < script.sh
 ```
 
 ### VNC
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ orchard ssh vm sonoma-base "bash -s" < script.sh
 Similarly to `ssh` command, you can use `vnc` command to open Screen Sharing into a remote VM:
 
 ```shell
-orchard vnc vm sonoma-base
+orchard vnc vm sequoia-base
 ```
 
 You can specify the `--username` and `--password` flags to specify the username/password pair to use for the VNC
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ protocol. By default, `admin`/`admin` is used.
 The following command will delete the VM we've created above and clean-up the resources associated with it:
 
 ```shell
-orchard delete vm sonoma-base
+orchard delete vm sequoia-base
 ```
 
 ## Environment variables

docs/orchard/using-orchard-cli.md

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+## Installation
+
+The easiest way to install Orchard CLI is through the [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/):
+
+```shell
+brew install cirruslabs/cli/orchard
+```
+
+Binaries and packages for other architectures can be found in [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/cirruslabs/orchard/releases).
+
+## Setting up a context
+
+The first step after installing the Orchard CLI is to configure its context. Configuring context is like pairing with the specified Orchard Controller, so that the commands like `orchard create vm`, `orchard ssh vm` will work.
+
+To configure a context, `orchard context` has a subfamily of commands:
+
+* `orchard context create <CONTROLLER ADDRESS>` — creates a new context to communicate with Orchard Controller available on the specified address
+* `orchard context default <CONTROLLER ADDRESS>` — sets a context with a given Orchard Controller address as default (in case there's more than one context configured)
+* `orchard context list` — lists all the configured contexts, indicating the default one
+* `orchard context delete <CONTROLLER ADDRESS>` — deletes a context for the specified Orchard Controller address
+
+Most of the time, you'll only need the `orchard context create`. For example, if you've deployed your Orchard Controller to `orchard-controller.example.com`, a new context can be configured like so:
+
+```shell
+orchard context create orchard-controller.example.com
+```
+
+`orchard context create` assumes port 6120 by default, so if you use a different port for the Orchard Controller, simply specify the port explicitly:
+
+```shell
+orchard context create orchard-controller.example.com:8080
+```
+
+When creating a new context you will be prompted for the service account name and token, which can be obtained from:
+
+* `orchard controller run` logs
+    * if this is a first start
+* `orchard get service-account`
+    * from an already configured Orchard CLI
+
+## Using labels when creating VMs
+
+Labels are useful if you want to restrict scheduling of a VM to workers whose labels include a subset of the VM's specified labels.
+
+For example, you might have an Orchard Cluster consisting of the following workers:
+
+* Mac Minis (`orchard worker run --labels location=DC1-R12-S4,model=macmini`)
+* Mac Studios (`orchard worker run --labels location=DC1-R18-S8,model=macstudio`)
+
+To create and run a VM specifically on Mac Studio machines, pass the `--labels` command-line argument to `orchard create vm` when creating a VM:
+
+```shell
+orchard create vm --labels model=macstudio <NAME>
+```
+
+When processing this VM, the scheduler will only place it on available Mac Studio workers.
+
+## Using resources when creating VMs
+
+Resources are useful if you want to restrict scheduling of a VM to workers that still have enough of the specified resource to fit the VM's requirements.
+
+The difference between the labels is that the resources are finite and are automatically accounted by the scheduler.
+
+To illustrate this with an example, let's say you have an Orchard Cluster consisting of the following workers:
+
+* Mac Mini with 1 Gbps bandwidth (`orchard worker run --resources bandwidth-mbps=1000`)
+* Mac Studio with 10 Gbps bandwidth (`orchard worker run --resources bandwidth-mbps=10000`)
+
+VM created using the command below will only be scheduled on a Mac Studio with 10 Gbps bandwidth:
+
+```shell
+orchard create vm --resources bandwidth-mbps=7500 <NAME>
+```
+
+However, after this VM is scheduled, the 10 Gbps Mac Studio will only be able to accommodate one more VM (due to internal Apple EULA limit for macOS virtualization) with `bandwidth-mbps=2500` or less.
+
+After the VM finishes, the unused resources will be available again.

docs/quick-start.md

@@ -9,18 +9,18 @@ Try running a Tart VM on your Apple Silicon device running macOS 13.0 (Ventura)
 
 ```bash
 brew install cirruslabs/cli/tart
-tart clone ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest sonoma-base
-tart run sonoma-base
+tart clone ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-base:latest sequoia-base
+tart run sequoia-base
 ```
 
 ??? info "Manual installation from a release archive"
     It's also possible to manually install `tart` binary from the latest released archive:
 
     ```bash
-    curl -LO https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/releases/latest/download/tart-arm64.tar.gz
-    tar -xzvf tart-arm64.tar.gz
-    ./tart.app/Contents/MacOS/tart clone ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest sonoma-base
-    ./tart.app/Contents/MacOS/tart run sonoma-base
+    curl -LO https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/releases/latest/download/tart.tar.gz
+    tar -xzvf tart.tar.gz
+    ./tart.app/Contents/MacOS/tart clone ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-base:latest sequoia-base
+    ./tart.app/Contents/MacOS/tart run sequoia-base
     ```
 
     Please note that `./tart.app/Contents/MacOS/tart` binary is required to be used in order to trick macOS
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ tart run sonoma-base
 
 The following macOS images are currently available:
 
+* macOS 15 (Sequoia)
+    * `ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-vanilla:latest`
+    * `ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-base:latest`
+    * `ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-xcode:latest`
 * macOS 14 (Sonoma)
     * `ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-vanilla:latest`
     * `ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sonoma-base:latest`
@@ -82,7 +86,7 @@ These credentials work both for logging in via GUI, console (Linux) and SSH.
 If the guest VM is running and configured to accept incoming SSH connections you can conveniently connect to it like so:
 
 ```bash
-ssh admin@$(tart ip sonoma-base)
+ssh admin@$(tart ip sequoia-base)
 ```
 
 !!! tip "Running scripts inside Tart virtual machines"
@@ -91,8 +95,8 @@ ssh admin@$(tart ip sonoma-base)
 
     ```bash
     brew install cirruslabs/cli/sshpass
-    sshpass -p admin ssh -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" admin@$(tart ip sonoma-base) "uname -a"
-    sshpass -p admin ssh -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" admin@$(tart ip sonoma-base) < script.sh
+    sshpass -p admin ssh -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" admin@$(tart ip sequoia-base) "uname -a"
+    sshpass -p admin ssh -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" admin@$(tart ip sequoia-base) < script.sh
     ```
 
 ## Mounting directories

gon.hcl

@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
-source = [
-  ".build/x86_64-apple-macosx/release/tart",
-  ".build/arm64-apple-macosx/release/tart"
-]
+source = [ "dist/tart_darwin_all/tart.app/Contents/MacOS/tart" ]
 bundle_id = "com.github.cirruslabs.tart"
 
 apple_id {

mkdocs.yml

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ plugins:
       match_path: blog/posts/.*
       date_from_meta:
         as_creation: date
+      abstract_chars_count: -1
   - social:
       cards_layout_dir: docs/layouts
       cards_layout: custom
@@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ nav:
       - "Architecture and Security": orchard/architecture-and-security.md
       - "Deploying Controller": orchard/deploying-controller.md
       - "Deploying Workers": orchard/deploying-workers.md
+      - "Using Orchard CLI": orchard/using-orchard-cli.md
       - "Managing the Cluster": orchard/managing-cluster.md
       - "Integrating with the API": orchard/integration-guide.md
   - "FAQ": faq.md

scripts/run-signed.sh

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 # helper script to build and run a signed tart binary
-# usage: ./scripts/run-signed.sh run sonoma-base
+# usage: ./scripts/run-signed.sh run sequoia-base
 
 set -e