Create Your First VM

After onboarding, the main window has a sidebar listing your VMs and a detail view on the right. Your library is empty on first launch.

Option A — Create a new VM

1. Click the + (New VM) button in the toolbar.
2. Pick a guest type — macOS (Apple Silicon) or Linux (arm64).
3. Provide a name, CPU count, memory size, and disk size. Kyvenza offers safe defaults based on the guest.
4. Select a boot image — either one you already have on disk, or import one now.
5. Click Create. The VM appears in the sidebar.

Option B — Restore a backup

If you already have a .kyvenzabackup archive, exported from Kyvenza on this or another Mac:

1. Open the New menu in the toolbar and choose Restore Backup....
2. Select the archive.
3. Name the VM and confirm.

VMs created by a Kyvenza release older than 1.2 are detected and imported automatically the first time you open the app. See Importing images for the full picture.

Start and interact

Select a VM in the sidebar and click Start. The detail view shows live status, logs, and controls:

• Start / Stop / Restart / Pause — lifecycle controls in the toolbar.
• Console — connect to the guest display when it is running.
• Configuration — edit CPU, memory, disk, and network settings while the VM is stopped.

Next

• Managing VMs
• Settings
• Trial and licensing — what the 7-day trial covers