We have just published the first public release of Try FydeOS, a small
app that boots FydeOS in a window on macOS and Windows. There is nothing
to configure and nothing to partition: open the app, it downloads the
official FydeOS image on first launch, and a minute later FydeOS is
running on your desktop.
Download: https://github.com/FydeOS/try-fydeos/releases/latest
How it works
Try FydeOS wraps QEMU and your computer’s own hypervisor around the stock
FydeOS VMware image, the same image we publish for VMware. On Apple
Silicon it uses Hypervisor.framework; on Windows it uses the Windows
Hypervisor Platform. Graphics are accelerated through VirGL, so the
desktop feels like FydeOS, not like a slideshow.
What you get
- The official FydeOS v23.1 image, downloaded and verified on first launch
(about 1.5 GB on Apple Silicon, 1.8 GB on Windows) and kept for factory
resets. - A start menu for cores, memory, full screen and microphone, with the
last run’s status and a factory reset button. After Launch, FydeOS owns
the window. - Clipboard sharing with the host, text in both directions.
- Your FydeOS data persists between runs in a sparse disk on the host
that grows up to 64 GiB as you use it.
Requirements
- macOS 15 or later on Apple Silicon.
- Windows 10 or 11 on x86-64 with the Windows Hypervisor Platform feature
enabled.
Before you start
The installers are not code-signed yet, so each system warns on first
open. On macOS, Gatekeeper blocks the app; allow it under System Settings
Privacy & Security > Open Anyway, then open it again.
On Windows,
SmartScreen shows a warning; choose More info, then Run anyway.
Known limitations
- Clipboard sharing is text only.
- No Linux version yet.
Open source
Try FydeOS is modeled on Try Omarchy (MIT) and is open source itself:
https://github.com/FydeOS/try-fydeos. The QEMU runtimes are built from
Try Omarchy’s recipes with our patches, pinned by commit and hash, and
every installer is built and published by GitHub Actions from a tag, so
you can trace each download back to its sources. Bug reports and ideas go
to the GitHub issues; we read every one.
Try it and tell us how FydeOS runs on your machine.