macOS 26 introduces the Containerization Framework: "enables developers to create, download, or run Linux container images directly on Mac"
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Cool. Podman Desktop should be easier after this. Presumably, it’s still a Linux VM driven by something written by Apple instead of qemu.
No macOS containers though. Being able to spin up macOS containers would have been nice for builds and isolating things like pkgsrc.
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Cool. Podman Desktop should be easier after this. Presumably, it’s still a Linux VM driven by something written by Apple instead of qemu.
No macOS containers though. Being able to spin up macOS containers would have been nice for builds and isolating things like pkgsrc.
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Container and Ai ! Now you get the sparkle junkie virus, guys!
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*Cries in 8GB Macbook*
If containers are part of your work then you wouldn't buy a 8GB RAM unupgradable device anyway.
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I wonder if they’re going to allow GPU access from inside the VMs.
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I wonder if they’re going to allow GPU access from inside the VMs.
Apple being Apple, the answer is probably yes. But realistically there's going to be some stupid hurdle in the way and because they make it a PITA nobody's really going to do it.
Which really sucks because the massive GPU and "unified memory" is incredible when they work in conjunction.
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Can you run amd64 containers?
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Apple being Apple, the answer is probably yes. But realistically there's going to be some stupid hurdle in the way and because they make it a PITA nobody's really going to do it.
Which really sucks because the massive GPU and "unified memory" is incredible when they work in conjunction.
Like, you can use the GPU on Linux…with Metal
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Ok. So now both Apple and Microsoft are distributors of the Linux kernel. What a timeline.
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Can you run amd64 containers?
It supports Rosetta2, so yes.
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Ok. So now both Apple and Microsoft are distributors of the Linux kernel. What a timeline.
it's the year of the linux desktop without the year of the linux desktop.
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If containers are part of your work then you wouldn't buy a 8GB RAM unupgradable device anyway.
No, but the company's IT would buy a 16GB Macbook for you that isn't even initially compatible with the images/containers you need to work with. Ask me how I know >.>
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Like, you can use the GPU on Linux…with Metal
virtio-gpu with Vulkan pass through for the VM with a Vulkan to Metal translator in host user space. There are various talks about this including at KVM forum: https://kvm-forum.qemu.org/2024/The_many_faces_of_virtio-gpu_F4XtKDi.pdf
