Brad Fitzpatrick 674f866ecc tstest/tailmac: add headless mode for automated VM testing
Add a --headless flag to the Host.app Run subcommand for running
macOS VMs without a GUI, enabling use from test frameworks.

Key changes:

  - HostCli.swift: When --headless is set, run the VM via VMController
    + RunLoop.main.run() instead of NSApplicationMain. Using the
    RunLoop (not dispatchMain) is required because VZ framework
    callbacks depend on RunLoop sources.

  - VMController.swift: Add headless parameter to createVirtualMachine
    that configures a single socket-based NIC (no NAT NIC). This
    matches the NIC configuration used when creating/saving VMs, so
    saved state restoration works correctly. A NIC count mismatch
    causes VZ to silently fail to execute guest code.

  - TailMacConfigHelper.swift: Clean up socket network device logging.

  - Config.swift: Move VM storage from ~/VM.bundle to
    ~/.cache/tailscale/vmtest/macos/.

  - TailMac.swift: Fix dispatchMain→RunLoop.main.run() in the create
    command (same VZ RunLoop requirement).

Updates #13038

Change-Id: Iea51c043aa92e8fc6257139b9f0e2e7677072fa2
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2026-04-11 12:50:53 -07:00
2026-04-07 15:05:02 -07:00
2026-04-07 11:00:04 -07:00

Tailscale

https://tailscale.com

Private WireGuard® networks made easy

Overview

This repository contains the majority of Tailscale's open source code. Notably, it includes the tailscaled daemon and the tailscale CLI tool. The tailscaled daemon runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and to varying degrees on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The Tailscale iOS and Android apps use this repo's code, but this repo doesn't contain the mobile GUI code.

Other Tailscale repos of note:

For background on which parts of Tailscale are open source and why, see https://tailscale.com/opensource/.

Using

We serve packages for a variety of distros and platforms at https://pkgs.tailscale.com.

Other clients

The macOS, iOS, and Windows clients use the code in this repository but additionally include small GUI wrappers. The GUI wrappers on non-open source platforms are themselves not open source.

Building

We always require the latest Go release, currently Go 1.26. (While we build releases with our Go fork, its use is not required.)

go install tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale{,d}

If you're packaging Tailscale for distribution, use build_dist.sh instead, to burn commit IDs and version info into the binaries:

./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled

If your distro has conventions that preclude the use of build_dist.sh, please do the equivalent of what it does in your distro's way, so that bug reports contain useful version information.

Bugs

Please file any issues about this code or the hosted service on the issue tracker.

Contributing

PRs welcome! But please file bugs. Commit messages should reference bugs.

We require Developer Certificate of Origin Signed-off-by lines in commits.

See commit-messages.md (or skim git log) for our commit message style.

About Us

Tailscale is primarily developed by the people at https://github.com/orgs/tailscale/people. For other contributors, see:

WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.

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