docs(vz): macOS handoff guide + vz-smoke builds guest-agent from source#123
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Adds docs/HANDOFF-macos-vz.md — a self-contained guide for validating the macOS vz backend on a real Mac (the one remaining Mac-gated milestone): prerequisites, how to get/build a kit, running scripts/vz-smoke.sh (auto-asserts boot / exit-code propagation / port forwarding; --gui adds the display/HID/clipboard/dynamic- resolution/close-window checklist), this session's findings that matter for the Mac path (the WLR_LIBINPUT_NO_DEVICES boot-race fix is shared via gui.rs and should help vz too; vz may achieve true re-modeset via automaticallyReconfiguresDisplay where WHP could only scale — worth observing; the /dev/kmsg observability trick), and exactly which DESIGN/README markers to flip once it passes. Also hardens vz-smoke.sh: it now cross-builds guest-agent from the current source (mirroring release.yml) instead of taking it from the kit, so the Mac validation exercises current main's GUI fixes rather than a stale release binary. Falls back to the kit's guest-agent with a loud warning if `cross` isn't installed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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docs/HANDOFF-macos-vz.md— a self-contained guide to finish the one remaining Mac-gated milestone (validate the macOS vz backend on real hardware). Covers prerequisites, getting/building a kit, runningscripts/vz-smoke.sh(auto-asserts boot / exit-code propagation / port forwarding;--guiadds the display/HID/clipboard/dynamic-resolution/close-window checklist), the session findings that matter for the Mac path, and exactly which DESIGN/README markers to flip once it passes.Also hardens
vz-smoke.sh: it now cross-buildsguest-agentfrom current source (mirroring release.yml) instead of taking the kit's — so the Mac validation exercises current main's GUI fixes (esp. theWLR_LIBINPUT_NO_DEVICESboot-race fix) rather than a stale v0.4.0 release binary. Falls back to the kit's guest-agent with a loud warning ifcrossisn't installed.Docs + one shell script;
bash -nclean. Highlights for the Mac operator: vz may achieve true guest re-modeset viaautomaticallyReconfiguresDisplaywhere WHP could only scale (worth observing), and the/dev/kmsgobservability + captured cage-stderr make GUI-boot failures self-diagnosing.🤖 Generated with Claude Code