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This runs boot2docker pretty well out of the box. I made the required edits to xhyverun.sh as found in this gist: https://gist.github.com/bruienne/d1053df883b47822c6e

It requires that you copy the vmlinuz64 and initrd.img files from the B2D ISO to a local filesystem location. As of right now enabling networking requires root privileges. Not sure if the Hypervisor framework has user-level accommodations for that.

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Blegh, https://gist.github.com/bruienne/d1053df883b47822c6e0

thanks! what about volume mounting and port forwarding, are supported already?

Your script is pretty much the same as mine, good to see :) For everyone who wants to give it a try and wants some instructions http://simonvanderveldt.nl/boot2docker-on-xhyve/

I've also done some quick benchmarks, they are at the bottom of the post. Virtualbox had about 50% higher disk IO performance in my measurements.

Regarding the root permissions for networking: As far as I know it shouldn't be necessary if you sign the xhyve binary, haven't tried that though.

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