I’m curious how orbstack is able to achieve the performance they claim.
It appears to be lxd, I assume a single vm with multiple lxd inside.
https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/461#issuecomment...
OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux
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Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux
#42I love how there is absolutely no mention that it is mac-only (or even what versions of mac are supported), even on the download page.
Windows already has WSL2 and Docker would run natively on Linux anyway.
Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux
#43I switched to Orbstack about 2 weeks ago after having read about it here on HN. I develop a cloud native system entirely writen in Rust. All my own containers are build without Docker thanks to rules oci in Bazel. However, for integration testing, I'm using internal tools that fire up, say a database container and run the tests all from within Bazel to leverage test caching and parallelization. For a while, i was str…
I'm in a similar position but I need to make sure I run distro kernel (because that's part of integration) instead of whatever OrbStack shipped.
In the end I just run a Linux VM and run everything inside. Zero issues by definition.
I'd actually love to use OrbStack Machines cause it feels much nicer than UTM, but, well, I can't run OrbStack's patched Linux kernel :(
Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux
#44Nice to see this here :) I work on OrbStack. Happy to answer questions!
Hi, is it possible to add a virtual machine mode to OrbStack? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41423667 for why. I'm okay with most (or all) nice integrations unavailable.
Basically I want a true UTM replacement, the one I can run my own kernel.
Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux
#45I love how there is absolutely no mention that it is mac-only (or even what versions of mac are supported), even on the download page.
It's in the page title.
Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Asked the other way around, why would anyone think a Docker container runner would be tied to MacOS?
Because Windows users are unlikely to care about Docker and Linux people don’t pay for stuff
This is hilarious and perfectly sums up my experience with Mac developers. Half of them have no idea Docker Desktop actually installs a Linux VM. They think how amazing their incredibly expensive system is, yet it's mostly a glorified text editor. The WSL experience on Windows convinced me buying a MacOS machine makes no sense.
Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux
#47Have been using OrbStack since beta and with a commercial license since February. I can’t praise it enough, it’s elegant, performant software that just works.
Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux
#48I switched to Orbstack about 2 weeks ago after having read about it here on HN. I develop a cloud native system entirely writen in Rust. All my own containers are build without Docker thanks to rules oci in Bazel. However, for integration testing, I'm using internal tools that fire up, say a database container and run the tests all from within Bazel to leverage test caching and parallelization. For a while, i was str…
I did the same thing.
Docker Desktop for Macos kept going into resource saving mode and then not responding to anything after some time, so I tried Orbstack after seeing it here.
Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux
#49OrbStack is by far some of the best software I've encountered on Mac, but unfortunately I have difficulty convincing my employer to pay for a commercial license, and with my sparse Docker usage, I'm confined to using it only for personal/hobby usage. What's amazing is it fixes an (almost) show stopper bug when using libuv (or software that uses it like CMake) with Rosetta 2 [1], with the bug present on all Docker/VMs…
Sorry to be blunt but your employer must be real penny pinchers, it’s not that expensive, and it’s a tool that would help you get the job done.