Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11–16× Faster LLM Inference with Llama.cpp
Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11–16× Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp Published on August 11, 2026 by Francesco Bonacci and Johnny Franks If you've been following Cua from the start, you may remember that it began with a Show HN launch for Lume, our macOS virtualization stack. We're releasing this work today as a research release under the same permissive license as Lume and Cua, so others can reproduce the results and help map which Apple Silicon chips, macOS releases, and Metal workloads benefit. Apple Vz users have been running into these limitations elsewhere too.
- ▪Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11–16× Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp Published on August 11, 2026 by Francesco Bonacci and Johnny Franks If you've been following Cua from the start, you may remember that it began with a Show HN launch fo
- ▪We're releasing this work today as a research release under the same permissive license as Lume and Cua, so others can reproduce the results and help map which Apple Silicon chips, macOS releases, and Metal workloads benefit.
- ▪Apple Vz users have been running into these limitations elsewhere too.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/trycua/cua/blob/main/blog/gpu-passthrough-macos-vms.md |
| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:50:33 +0000 |
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Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11–16× Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp Published on August 11, 2026 by Francesco Bonacci and Johnny Franks If you've been following Cua from the start, you may remember that it began with a Show HN launch for Lume, our macOS virtualization stack. Today, we're sharing the first result from a broader effort to connect that Virtualization.framework foundation to the local computer-use environments behind Cua Driver and the infrastructure behind Cua Cloud and Fleets: a small, process-scoped compatibility layer that unlocks newer Metal fast paths inside a macOS guest.
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