Velo Workspaces
Disposable, reproducible environments — not a toy VM app.
Velo Workspaces runs real, isolated Linux and macOS environments on your Mac, built around how AI researchers, QA engineers, DevOps professionals, and software engineers actually work — not a generic "run another OS" novelty.
macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon. No account. No cloud dependency.
Four jobs. Four profiles built for them.
Every workspace starts from a profile sized for the work ahead, not a guess — CPU, memory, and storage set to match the job, or configure your own.
Software Engineers
Build and test against a clean toolchain without touching your main machine — or a colleague's exact setup, reproduced exactly.
Code & Build profileQA Engineers
Run every test from the exact same known-good image, then throw the environment away — no snapshot to remember, no leftover state to doubt.
Disposable WorkspacesDevOps Professionals
Validate a deployment script, an install procedure, or a config change against a real, isolated Linux host before it ships.
DevOps Lab profileAI Researchers
Build and test agents, tool-calling, and RAG pipelines in an isolated environment, against a model running on your own Mac.
AI Sandbox + AI BridgeBuilt around local AI, and environments you can afford to throw away.
AI Bridge — local model inference, no cloud in the loop
Run inference on your Mac's own GPU and reach it from inside a workspace as a plain OpenAI-compatible endpoint — the same way you'd reach any local server. Build and test agents, tool-calling, and RAG pipelines against a model that never leaves the machine. No API keys, no usage costs, no data leaving your Mac.
- Works with local model servers such as Ollama
- Nothing is sent to Velo Workspaces or any third party
- AI Sandbox profile is sized for agent frameworks and tooling out of the box
Disposable Workspaces — the way QA is supposed to work
Spin up a clean environment for exactly one test run, and let it clean up after itself the moment you close it — no snapshot to remember to delete, no "wait, did I leave something installed from last time" doubt about whether a pass is real. Seal a fully configured workspace — OS, packages, dotfiles, everything — into a base image once, then clone new disposable workspaces from it in seconds using copy-on-write, so every test starts from the exact same known-good state.
- One click to save the current state as a reusable base image
- Instant cloning — no re-installing before every run
- Manage saved base images from Preferences whenever you want to clean up
Integrations that respect your actual toolchain.
Shared folders
Share host folders straight into a workspace — mounted automatically for macOS guests, with a copy-paste command for Linux.
SSH & VS Code, one click away
Quick SSH access to any workspace, plus a generated VS Code Remote-SSH config so your editor connects the moment the guest is up.
Serial console
A built-in terminal for debugging a Linux guest that never brings up a display — no external SSH client required.
Clipboard sharing
Copy and paste between your Mac and a Linux workspace like it's a window on your own desktop.
Rosetta 2 for Linux
Run x86_64 Linux binaries at near-native speed on Apple Silicon, inside the workspace that needs them.
Pause & hibernate
Pause a workspace mid-task and pick up exactly where you left off, without leaving it running in the background.
Run the Linux you actually need.
Pulled straight from each project's own official source, not a mirror — alongside macOS guests with near-native, Metal-accelerated graphics.
Private and local by default.
No account, no cloud dependency for anything a workspace does. Diagnostics and crash reporting are opt-in and off by default. Everything — the guest OS, your files, your models — stays on your Mac. Read the full privacy policy.
Treat a clean environment as a first-class workflow.
Whether you're debugging an AI agent against a local model or running the same automated test suite a hundred times a day, Velo Workspaces is built for it.
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