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Anyone tried this? How's the performance compared to Docker Machine in Mac (notoriously slow on storage).

• initplus 5y ago
  I assume it's pretty slow, not on storage but on compute. x86 docker/podman on M1 must use QEMU software emulation, rosetta doesn't support x86 virtualization.
  • vbezhenar 5y ago
    Why do you think that it uses x86? I assume that it just runs ordinary ARM linux in VM which just works (I also don't really understand this title post, surely podman worked on ARM linux since the beginning).
  • slpnix 5y ago
    Behind the scenes, it's using QEMU with Alex Graf's patches for hvf (Hypervisor.framework) support, so it's Virtualization, not emulation. In other words, the performance is really good ;-) BTW, in case you don't want to depend on a fork, upstream podman is going to gain M1 support (in the sense of 'podman-machine' knowing how to start aarch64 VMs with hvf) very soon.