Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac

Re:Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac by COM2323 on Monday October 10, 2022 @03:52AM (#33148870)

> In all cases, the Docker daemon is running under Linux. The Mac and Windows versions are merely bundling up a Linux VM containing Docker with a frontend that's as transparent as possible, but still with Linux as a hard requirement.

I really doubt that's the case if you run native Windows containers on Windows.

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Re:Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac by wtallis on Monday October 10, 2022 @01:21PM (#33154042)

Thanks for pointing that out. I hadn't realized Microsoft had jumped on the Docker bandwagon to that extent; it's far enough from the topic at hand and from anything I'd ever use that I overlooked it.

So while there is in fact an exception to my previous generalization, there's still no cross-platform compatibility magic to Docker aside from that of virtual machines. If the container OS is different from the host OS (or a different version of the OS, for Windows containers), then using Docker is an instance of using VMs, not an alternative to VMs.

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