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Container runs OCI (docker) compatible by creating lightweight VMs.

This repository houses the command-line interface which is powered by containerization[0], the Swift framework wrapping Virtualization.framework to implement an OCI runtime.

[0]: https://github.com/apple/containerization

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I am going to show my ineptitude by admitting this, for the life of me I couldn’t get around to implement the Mac Os native way to run linux VMs and used vm-ware fusion instead. [0]

I’m glad this more accessible package is available vs docker desktop on mac os or the aforementioned, likely to be abandoned vmware non enterprise license.

[0] [apple virtualization docs](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/cre...)

Lima makes this really straightforward and supports vz virtualization. I particularly like that you can run x86 containers through rosetta2 via those Linux VMs with nerdctl. If you want to implement it yourself of course you can, but I appreciate the work from this project so far and have used it for a couple of years.

https://lima-vm.io/

And you also have `colima`[0] on top of it that makes working with Docker on the command-line a seamless experience.

[0] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

VMware Fusion is a perfectly good way of running VMs, and IMO has a better and more native UI than any other solution (Parallels, UTM, etc)

This is a weird take to me.

VMWare Fusion very much feels like a cheap one-time port of VMWare Workstation to macOS. On a modern macOS it stands out very clearly with numerous elements that are reminiscent of the Aqua days: icon styles, the tabs-within-tabs structure, etc.

Fusion also has had some pretty horrific bugs related to guest networking causing indefinite hangs in the VM(s) at startup.

Parallels isn't always perfect sailing but put it this way: I have had a paid license for both (and VBox installed), for many years to build vagrant images, but when it comes to actually running a VM for purposes other than building an image, I almost exclusively turn to Parallels.

> reminiscent of the Aqua days

Maybe early Aqua. We're still in the Aqua days, if you don't count yesterday's Liquid Glass announcement. :)

Not on Apple Silicon it's not. In the Intel days, sure it was great.

I still can run the latest ARM Fedora Workstation on Apple Silicon with Fusion, and similar distros straight from the ISO without having to tweak stuff around or having problems with 3D acceleration, unlike UTM.

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