fxgl/steamac
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What it is
Runs Valve's official ARM64 SteamOS image for Steam Frame inside a lightweight VM on macOS 15+ and Apple Silicon, using libkrun and Hypervisor.framework. Graphics go through Venus, a Vulkan-on-Metal path via MoltenVK, with controller and CoreAudio sound support.
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macOS users on Apple Silicon who want to run Steam and SteamOS games in a VM, and developers interested in Venus and Vulkan-on-Metal virtualization
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