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I wish it wasn't necessary to use a VM to run Docker on a Mac. Shouldn't it be easy to get Jails running on OSX, and wouldn't that be a good basis for Docker?
by hibbelig 12y ago
I wish it wasn't necessary to use a VM to run Docker on a Mac. Shouldn't it be easy to get Jails running on OSX, and wouldn't that be a good basis for Docker? (I'm not sure.)
- jpgvm 12y agoYou still have the issue of not having an implementation of an Ethernet or network virtualisation features like Crossbow/VImage. Even if you were to solve that you would be stuck with the VFS graph driver unless you could get a CoW filesystem up and running on OSX (maybe revamp the old ZFS port?). Docker is much more than just jailing is basically the problem.
- justincormack 12y agoWell first of all Apple has shown no interest in adding jails to osx. Second, there is not yet a proof of concept implementation of Docker using jails (there are significant differences between the implementation of jails and Linux namespacing). Third, you need a filesystem like zfs, but Apple does not support that. Fourth, all Docker code currently being distributed is for Linux/amd64. Implementing it on FreeBSD would be immensely easier as a first step.
- stuaxo 12y agoDocker is built on linux containers (lxc)