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Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

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Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

#191

I've been running docker-machine with a VMWare Fusion VM with VT-x/EPT enabled and am using KVM inside my containers to dev/test cloud software. I'd be interested to know if I can still get the performance of Fusion and the support I need for nested virtualization out of Docker for Mac.

We do not currently have nested virtualization support.

Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

#192

Will there be an easy way to switch / upgrade from docker-machine with vbox without having to recreate all of my images and containers over again? I know it's a small thing, but it's kind of a pain sometimes.

Yes there is a migration script.

Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

#193

Will there be an easy way to switch / upgrade from docker-machine with vbox without having to recreate all of my images and containers over again? I know it's a small thing, but it's kind of a pain sometimes.

Yes there is a migration script.

Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

#194

Does anybody have any guides on setting up dev environments for code within Docker? I recall a Dockercon talk last year from Lyft about spinning up microservices locally using Docker. We're using Vagrant for development environments, and as the number of microservices grows - the feasibility of running the production stack locally decreases. I'd be interested in learning how to spin up five to ten docker services loc…

docker-compose is kind of oriented towards what I think you are referring to, have you tried that out? I've done a bit with it and was thinking about explaining how I used it in some post but didn't know if it would be very useful outside of what I was doing. If you email me a small description I could probably whip up a docker-compose.yml as an example since it's fun to play around with.

Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

#196

The last time I used xhyve, it kernel panic'ed my mac. Researching this on the xhyve github account [1] showed that it was determined that it's due to a bug with Virtualbox. That is, if you've started a virtual machine since your last reboot with Virtualbox, subsequent starts of xhyve panic. So, buyer beware, especially if said buyer also uses tools like Vagrant. [1] https://github.com/mist64/xhyve/issues/5 I've said…

What's a little mind-boggling to me (I have some, not the best, but some experience with the Docker devs) is that the mantra for a long time has been "We're not going to add features to Docker if that feature could wrap Docker instead."

Makes sense, that's fine. But, it seems they've gone (and continue) to do that very thing!

Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

#197

I would like to see Windows docker images. Will this ever happen? Or can I do it already?

Windows images are in beta. They will be released later this year.

Microsoft has been hinting that they want to get rid of localhost loopback access from browsers (they took it out of Edge entirely for a while, now it can at least be enabled).

If they do decide to block browsers from accessing localhost, will that impact docker?

Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

#198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Great products are worth paying for.

Expecting open source doesn't mean I wouldn't pay for it. I co-founded a company that is fully open source, so I do understand that money needs to exchange hands to keep this industry flowing. I just believe in freely sharing ideas.

> freely sharing ideas

You mean freely sharing execution? The source is not the idea.

Re: Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

#199

I'm delighted to read that inotify will work with this. How's fs performance? Running elasticsearch or just about any compile process in a docker-machine-based container is fairly painful.

Our focus so far has been more on reliability, but we intend to increase performance steadily over time. There are lots of interesting optimisations we can make across the whole stack.

Please do check it out and suggest some particular benchmarks that are important to you -- we're busy building up a performance benchmark suite atm.

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