Agreed! There's some good improvements around Accessory Access in virtualization framework this year also - checkout: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/224/?time=2...

I wonder if the custom virtio can be used to support attaching the built-in sdcard readers on macs which aren't exposed as usb.

Thanks for the info kdrag0n! Big fan of OrbStack; good call out on dynamic memory.

If the guest image has /sbin/init, we use that.

We'd recommend using a base image for the guest that includes systemd. ie: https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/container-...