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Re:New MacBook Air by qayxc on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @10:17AM (#22616885)
It's not a VM, which is the point of docker in the first place.

I agree, though, that it's next to unusable on a low-power dual-core system like the MBA if only for limited RAM.

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Re:New MacBook Air by mcpeepants on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @10:25AM (#22616977)
docker on mac does indeed leverage a VM as the docker host, since a Linux kernel is required
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Re:New MacBook Air by qayxc on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:04AM (#22617402)
To my understanding Docker doesn't do hardware virtualisation and doesn't run indiviual VMs per container instance, though, or does it?
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Re:New MacBook Air by mcpeepants on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:38AM (#22617789)
it does not, but there is still some overhead running a single linux VM for the docker host on macOS
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