OrbStack: Light Linux containers and VMs on macOS, early access
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Tech-wise, would be interested to hear what this is using. I assume it's using the macOS Hypervisor framework?
Especially due to the claim on “30Gbps networking” considering there isn’t a Apple Silicon Mac with over a single 10GbE port.
Latency feels like it would be a better trade-off here, I wonder what they're doing to reduce host to container latency.
Considering that any solution they came up with is almost assured to be using Apple’s virtualization frameworks, I’d venture the answer is near zero (at least for work they specifically did).
This achieves linux containers on macOS.
Further, the link shared here seems to be a referral url, but I might be wrong.
I think it's just the ID for the survey in the tool they've used to build the interest sign-up form.
For VMs, I'm using UTM.app and it's fantastic.
Looks interesting. The biggest problem I have with Docker Desktop on MacOS though is the constant cpu draw of 3-5% (or more, I can't tell if "kernel_task" seeming more busy when Docker is running is real). Wondering if we get any improvement there?
That said, it still uses ~2.5-3% CPU when idle. This is probably background processes inside the VM and it's not a lot, but it's there. I have had instances where I had completely forgotten I had the VM up and didn't notice any impact on battery life though, so I don't really think it's a big deal. It's also dead easy to just stop it when not in use.
To the GP, increased kernel_task usage (if any) might not be having any impact on battery at all. The main utility for this process, from my experience, is to idle the CPU when it gets hot. This is how the thermal throttle works on macOS.