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VirtIO-vsock

Virtio socket family that carries stream traffic between a hypervisor host and its guests through shared memory rather than an emulated network device.

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A vsock hop keeps the model on Metal while the agent runs in Ubuntu

Apple's Virtualization.framework gives Linux guests a 2D framebuffer and no path to Metal. So a sandboxed coding agent has to send every request back across a vsock channel to an inference server running natively on macOS.

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