I used Lima #limavm for the first time today, and am really impressed. Super easy to get going, shared mounts just work and the VM feels very snappy!

https://lima-vm.io/

If you use #limavm to build #linux stuff on a #mac, be careful - the #virtiofs driver is speedy but the case insensitivity of the underlying filesystem is also passed through. The kernel build does not like this.