utmd

Disposable VM sandbox manager for UTM on macOS.

Clone base templates into isolated development environments and delete them with a single command.

Prerequisites

• macOS with UTM Desktop Application installed
• Base VM templates named [t]-linux and [t]-macos in UTM

Usage

utmd clone linux              # Clone from [t]-linux (auto-generated name)
utmd clone macos              # Clone from [t]-macos (auto-generated name)
utmd clone linux sandbox1     # Clone with a custom name

utmd delete-all               # Delete all generated sandbox VMs

List all VMs in UTM:

utmctl list

Installation

utmd is available on crates.io and Homebrew.

Cargo

cargo install utmd

Homebrew

brew install tappunk/utmd/utmd

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/tappunk/utmd.git
cd utmd
cargo build --release
sudo cp target/release/utmd /usr/local/bin/utmd

On first run, utmd checks for utmctl and offers to create a symlink if it is not found.