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Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by xenophonf on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:42AM (#15393165)
It's still experimental:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker

Using FreeBSD as the Docker host requires the Linux compatibility layer, like Windows and macOS.

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Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by vertex-four on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:54AM (#15393278)
Windows and macOS literally spin up VMs for Docker - the compat layer in FreeBSD runs binaries natively, just translating syscalls in the kernel.
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Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by eatonphil on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:13PM (#15394036)
They used to. The native version has been in beta for a while and it's fairly stable. I've used it locally for about a year.

https://thenewstack.io/native-docker-comes-windows-mac/

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Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by vertex-four on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:15PM (#15394052)
No, that literally says they use VMs - they just internally manage them.
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Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by eatonphil on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:09PM (#15394598)
Whoops, you're right. They switched from VirtualBox to xhyve on macOS but it's still a VM.
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