Velo Workspaces

Linux VMs on your Mac, ready in about a minute.

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Linux VMs on your Mac, ready in about a minute.

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Native VMs on your Mac for developers, QA, DevOps and AI builders. A Linux shell in about a minute: Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora or Rocky Linux cloud images set up your user, SSH keys and disk size. Hands-free Ubuntu, Fedora and Rocky installs. Built-in SSH terminal. Disposable VMs cloned in seconds. AI Bridge: your Mac's GPU as a local LLM endpoint. Also macOS guests, VS Code setup, shared folders. Unlimited VMs free; Pro adds the terminal, AI Bridge, disposables, Rosetta. No account, no tracking.

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Launch tags:Developer Tools•Artificial Intelligence•Apple

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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Gaoliang, maker of Velo Workspaces. I kept hitting the same wall: I wanted to test something destructive — a risky config change, an untrusted script, a fresh install — without touching my main Mac, and every VM tool I tried felt like it was built for running "another OS" as a novelty, not for actual engineering work. So I built Velo Workspaces around two things I actually needed: 🧠 AI Bridge — run inference on your Mac's own GPU, then reach it from inside a Linux workspace as a plain local endpoint. No API keys, no cloud, no usage costs. In my own benchmarks, throughput inside the workspace was within ~4% of running natively on the host. 🗑️ Disposable Workspaces — clone a fully configured base image in seconds via copy-on-write, run your test or risky command, close it, and it's gone — disk included. No snapshot to remember to delete, no "did I leave something installed last time" doubt. It's native macOS, built on Apple's own Virtualization framework — no account, no cloud dependency, everything stays on your Mac. One-time purchase, no subscription, no IAP. Would love your feedback, especially from anyone doing local AI dev or QA work on Apple Silicon. Happy to answer anything about how it works under the hood!

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25d ago

What's New in the v1.0.1 Release

AI Bridge now connects to the model you actually chose, changes provider without a restart, and an ending connection no longer takes the app down with it.

FIXED: THE BRIDGE ALWAYS USED OLLAMA'S PORT

Whichever provider was selected, every workspace forwarded its AI Bridge traffic to port 11434. If you run MLX or llama-server on 8080, requests from the workspace arrived at a port with nothing listening on it. The bridge now forwards to the port the selected provider actually serves.

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25d ago

What's New in the v1.1.0 Release

Velo Workspaces is now free to download.

ALREADY OWN VELO WORKSPACES?

Nothing changes for you. Everything you paid for stays unlocked,

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