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Re:Docker for Mac M1 RC by ajford on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:25AM (#26513696)
Do you use any other virtualization software along side HyperV? We have a lot of legacy stuff that integrates with VirtualBox, but wanted to start edging towards Docker.

However, when I last spent a couple of sprints attempting to get them working side-by-side, it was a pretty big failure. I couldn't get VirtualBox 6.0 running without falling back to soft virtualization which was painfully slow (booting a Ubuntu box took the better part of an hour).

Re:Docker for Mac M1 RC by yonixw on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:46AM (#26513925)
Why not using HyperV itself instead of Vbox?
Re:Docker for Mac M1 RC by ajford on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:00PM (#26514887)
Because of a lot of existing internal tools that directly call and manage VBox to set up local testing environments and stacks.

It's a planned initiative for the future, but it means a fundamental change in a number of tools and would require a rather large set of rewrites.

On top of that, out of the large pool of users, only a small handful would actually need to run Docker side-by-side with these tools, meaning that it's a huge rewrite to allow a small number of people to use Docker on their desktops. That ultimately means it's getting very little traction and keeps getting pushed down the backlog.