Virtual Machines built for Apple silicon and AI agents
Lightweight, beautiful and smooth like butter.
Apple siliconmacOS 26 or laterWhat's new in 0.87
macOS × Windows × Linux with GPU acceleration.
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macOSStraight from Apple, installed in minutes, with Metal on your Mac's GPU. VMPal Tools add the clipboard and drag & drop. On macOS 27, setup takes no clicks. -
Windows 11VMPal's own engine, installed for you. Retina up to 5K, a TPM 2.0, USB devices, Direct3D 11 and OpenGL 4.1 on your Mac's GPU. -
Ubuntu and FedoraInstalled for you in minutes. OpenGL 4.1 on your Mac's GPU, Rosetta for Intel programs, and nested virtualization.
- Lightweight A VM's disk is only as big as what's in it. It moves to another Mac in one file, and clones take space only as they change.
- Fast on every system macOS and Linux on Apple's Virtualization framework, Windows on VMPal's own engine. Each draws on your Mac's GPU.
- Beautiful design We care about the details. Every pixel in VMPal is perfectly aligned and made to feel at home on macOS.
- Sharp on Retina The display follows the window, at your Mac's scale, up to 5K.
- Installed for you One click installs the latest macOS, Windows 11, Ubuntu, Fedora and more. Or choose your own ISO, IPSW file.
- Share everything Clipboard with files both ways, drag and drop in and out of every VM, and Mac folders in Finder, Explorer and Files.
- Snapshots Save a VM as it is, running or not, and roll back in seconds. Each takes space only as the VM changes.
- Port forwarding Reach a web server or SSH in any VM through a port on your Mac.
- Live settings Name, disk, shared folders and network change while the VM runs.
- Sound and mic, per VM Each VM gets only what you allow, and a green light shows when the mic is in use.
- Its own app in the Dock Each VM runs as an app of its own, with its own Dock icon. A crash stops only that VM.
- Import from Parallels Bring your Parallels VMs over in a few clicks.
Give your AI agent its own machine.
Stop clicking Allow. It needs no permissions.
On your own Mac, an agent stops for Accessibility, Screen Recording, app access and passwords, and waits for you. Some prompts it can't click at all. In VMPal it uses the VM's own keyboard and mouse, so the system sees you, not an app asking for rights. It runs installers, answers prompts and signs in on its own.
A machine of its own. It never gets in your way.
Your AI agent uses a Mac, PC or Linux box in a VM. Your Mac, your files and your screen are never touched, and you can turn agent control off for any VM.
Undo anything. Snapshots built in.
Take a snapshot before the agent starts. If it goes wrong, roll the whole machine back in seconds.
Set up in one click. Built-in MCP.
One click adds VMPal to Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity and other agents, in the VM or on your Mac. The agent can then see the screen, take the controls and run commands, as you or as an administrator.
Containers
Docker containers, without Docker Desktop.
Run Linux containers in VMPal's own engine, with the docker command you already use and help from your AI agent.
Starts in an instant. Gone when you're done.
The engine takes very little of your Mac's memory. It starts on its own with your first container, and shuts down when none are running.
No Docker engine or CLI needed.
VMPal has its own engine. Already use docker, Compose or Testcontainers? One command, vmpal containers setup, points them at VMPal.
Docker Hub. Official images, easy to install.
Install PostgreSQL, MySQL and other official images in one click.
Your AI agent runs them too. No docs to read.
Just ask your coding agent to install a Docker image. No docs to dig through, no confusing commands.
Every system, one Mac. Get VMPal.
Apple siliconmacOS 26 or laterRelease notes