With colima I can run AMD64 (x86) Linux containers in my Arm64 too. I think this is strictly for Arm64 Linux VMs, or is there some way to run x86 with this too?
Rosetta should be supported
macOS Container Machines
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#22looks like apple wrote a native docker in swift you can now run linux containers on your mac ... but it could be better. what about (totally contrived): FROM apple/macos:10.11.6 RUN xcodebuild -project myapp.xcodeproj -scheme MyScheme -configuration Release
i wish!
Re: macOS Container Machines
#23looks like apple wrote a native docker in swift you can now run linux containers on your mac ... but it could be better. what about (totally contrived): FROM apple/macos:10.11.6 RUN xcodebuild -project myapp.xcodeproj -scheme MyScheme -configuration Release
Nice, but expect to page through a few pages of ToS during the build
lol
ENV XCODE_FRONTEND=unattended
ENV XCODE_LICENSES=accept,firstborn,applepay,appleid=sjobs@me.comRe: macOS Container Machines
#24Will this be able to replace docker desktop an equivalents, removing the expensive Linux VM that runs alongside them?
Others here mention it and I’m a new convert to Colima.
The pain of working around Docker Desktop is bad.
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#25Do these containers share a common kernel? Or are they each ran in a separate VM?
Edit: It's a VM per container. https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/technical-...
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#26OrbStack works really well for me. I wonder how it’s compared to this performance wise
(OrbStack dev here.) Instead of Virtualization.framework, we have a custom Rust virtualization stack with custom devices and protocols for things like filesystem sharing. It's a highly optimized vertically integrated stack specifically for running our Linux machines and containers.
Our biggest perf/resource gain is dynamic memory, which reduces memory usage a lot by releasing unused memory back to macOS. Nothing else supports this, including Containerization.
I gave Container Machines a try and it seems to be much closer to OCI containers with a default bind mount than OrbStack machines. It has fewer integrations and doesn't run systemd or any other normal init system, so it's hard to run services.
Re: macOS Container Machines
#27looks like apple wrote a native docker in swift you can now run linux containers on your mac ... but it could be better. what about (totally contrived): FROM apple/macos:10.11.6 RUN xcodebuild -project myapp.xcodeproj -scheme MyScheme -configuration Release
It would be wonderful if this ran on older versions of macOS, but according to the README they only support 26.
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#28WWDC presentation video:
Discover container machines
Re: macOS Container Machines
#29To clarify a few comments here: this is not only OCI containers: container machines add support for persistence and filesystem mounting, making container machines a great lightweight Linux environment for developers using macOS. More details here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/389
Ah, the Darwin/BSD Subsystem for Linux.
Re: macOS Container Machines
#30Would be nice if they also support Intel based macs, what prevents?
Apple won’t support them with MacOS 27, and it seems they announced this tool as part of this year’s WWDC.
Basically: they’ve moved on.