Installing Anka
How to install the Anka Virtualization software on your macOS
MacOS Host Version Support
INTEL | Anka 3.x |
macOS 10.14 | 🛑 |
macOS 10.15 | 🛑 |
macOS 11.x | 🛑 |
macOS 12.x | 🛑 |
macOS 13.x | ✅ |
macOS 14.x | ✅ |
macOS 15.x | ✅ |
Apple/ARM | Anka 3.x |
| 🛑 |
| 🛑 |
| 🛑 |
| 🛑 |
| ✅ |
| ✅ |
| ✅** |
** Connecting to the VM over port forwarding for the first time will show a prompt on the host’s desktop saying "Allow ankahv-arm64 to find devices on local networks"
. You will need to manually approve this until a solution is provided by Apple.
⚠️ MacOS 12.x is currently not supported for 3.3.9 and above. Please upgrade macOS to the latest before using Anka.
Download and Install
With GUI
- Download the universal PKG.
- Once downloaded, double click the .pkg to start the installation process.
With Terminal
Apple/ARM & Intel
FULL_FILE_NAME="$(curl -Ls -r 0-1 -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} https://veertu.com/downloads/anka-virtualization-latest | cut -d/ -f5)"
curl -S -L -o ./$FULL_FILE_NAME https://veertu.com/downloads/anka-virtualization-latest
sudo installer -pkg $FULL_FILE_NAME -tgt /
Verifying the installation
❯ anka version
Anka Build Basic version 3.X.X (build XXX)
Activate your Anka Build Cloud License
Details about our licensing
Licensing is not necessary if you’re using Anka Develop.
You can see how many hosts or cores a license has available by running: anka license show -k {LICENSE}
Corporate networks can sometimes block access to our licensing server. The machine you’re activing the license on will need to reach the internet, or, support can provide the licensing server URL upon request.
If you’re using a proxy, Anka recognizes the standard http_proxy
and https_proxy
env variables. However, sudo
will not pass the environment by default, so activation should be called with sudo -E anka license activate {LICENSE}
to pass the current user’s *_proxy
envs into sudo.
❯ anka license
Usage: anka license [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Control Licensing
Options:
--help Display usage information
Commands:
accept-eula Accept EULA (requires root privileges)
activate Activate license key (requires root...
remove Remove the current license (requires root...
show Show license information
validate Validate the current license
❯ sudo anka license activate {LICENSE}
License activated
❯ anka license show
+--------------+-------------------------+
| license_type | com.veertu.anka.entplus |
+--------------+-------------------------+
| status | valid |
+--------------+-------------------------+
| expires | 30-mar-2021 |
+--------------+-------------------------+
What’s next?