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This is good news. I come from the development background and the number one use case of containers on macOS is development enviroments, as on Windows too. For
by miohtama 4y ago
This is good news.
I come from the development background and the number one use case of containers on macOS is development enviroments, as on Windows too. For this use case, file system IO has always been bottleneck, not CPU. I do not know if there is some silver bullet in the horizon that could make this faster.
- hannibalhorn 4y agoI've been really impressed with what I can accomplish with lima-vm, beyond just "replace docker desktop". The latest pre-release supports Virtualization.framework, including virtiofs.
- mark_l_watson 4y agoI am also happy with Lima on my M1 Macs. I wanted a Intel Linux container to run picolisp and it was easy to set up and works nicely.
- emptysongglass 4y agoCheck out Finch, a new OSS project out of AWS that packs OSS container tools like Lima and nerdctl together: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-finch-an-open-source-client-for-container-development/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-finch-an...
- gpanders 4y agoLast I checked (which was not that long ago), Lima was stuck using 9p because QEMU for Darwin didn’t yet support virtiofs. Has this changed? Or maybe I’m just misremembering the details… EDIT: Looks like this was indeed just added in the last couple of weeks https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/commit/c18ae239b69a47db77436765b9b4861aaa0d595d https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/commit/c18ae239b69a47db77436...
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- JacobSeated 4y agovirtiofs is supported by newer Docker builds. It used to be very buggy with permissions, but the latest builds should have solved that. I am personally slowly moving back to Docker after having used limactl for a long time. It's just a pain in the ass. A Linux laptop is better for all intents and purposes, except the shitty battery life...