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Fix build warnings (#1262)
* Use let for the immutable disk image storage attachment

* Don't bind the unused error when catching connection-pool failures

* Report errors thrown inside tart run's fire-and-forget tasks

We were discarding any error thrown inside these unstructured tasks,
which silently hid failures to run the control socket or to start and
stop the VM, and which the compiler now warns about.

Wrap them in an ErrorReportingTask, which spawns the task and reports
any thrown error to stderr, rather than repeating a do/catch at every
call site. An unstructured task spawned from a synchronous context (a
signal handler or SwiftUI action) has no parent to propagate the error
to, so reporting it is the best we can do.

* Avoid blocking SwiftNIO calls in async guest agent connections

The gRPC channel setup in "tart exec" and the MAC address resolver
created a dedicated event loop group and tore both it and the channel
down with the blocking syncShutdownGracefully() and wait(), which are
unavailable from async contexts (the former is an error in the Swift 6
language mode).

Factor the connection out into a withGuestAgentChannel() helper that
uses the process-wide singleton event loop group, so there is no group
to shut down, and closes the channel with the async close().get().
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README.md

Tart is a virtualization toolset to build, run and manage macOS and Linux virtual machines (VMs) on Apple Silicon. Built by CI engineers for your automation needs. Here are some highlights of Tart:

  • Tart uses Apple's own Virtualization.Framework for near-native performance.
  • Push/Pull virtual machines from any OCI-compatible container registry.
  • Use Tart Packer Plugin to automate VM creation.
  • Easily integrates with any CI system.

Many companies are using Tart in their internal setups. Here are just a few of them:

Note: If your company or project is using Tart please consider sharing with the community.

Usage

Try running a Tart VM on your Apple Silicon device running macOS 13.0 (Ventura) or later (will download a 25 GB image):

brew install cirruslabs/cli/tart
tart clone ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-tahoe-base:latest tahoe-base
tart run tahoe-base

Please check the official documentation for more information and/or feel free to use discussions for remaining questions.