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Libvirt works both as client (for most drivers) and server (for the QEMU driver) on macOS.
Since 8.1.0, the "hvf" domain type can be used to run hardware-accelerated VMs on macOS via Hypervisor.framework. QEMU version 2.12 or newer is needed for this to work.
libvirt client (virsh), server (libvirtd) and development headers can be installed from Homebrew:
brew install libvirt
The server can be started manually:
$ libvirtd
or on system boot:
$ brew services start libvirt
Once started, you can use virsh as you would on Linux.
