Native virtualization for macOS • Hacker News Board

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

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Post by AdamGibbins » Thu, Nov 10, 2016, 7:19 PM UTC

grav wrote: post #96

dragonshed wrote: post #53

Well, I'm excited by the potential of having something better than Virtualbox available for free. I tried converting a linux vm I frequently use via vagrant just now, and it seems to work well except for network bridging: You can't bridge over wifi. Kindof a deal-breaker. The relevant page[1] explains it thus: "Due to features of wireless protocol, level 2 bridges don’t work over Wi-Fi, and so you can’t use wireless…

I have a current `docker-compose`-based dev-setup, which I'd like to move out of Docker for Mac because of instability and into a Linux VM. One dirty detail is that the Docker containers need to communicate with the host machine (the dev-Mac). Would this be achievable with the limited bridge that Veertu supports?

> move out of Docker for Mac because of instability and into a Linux VM

Docker for Mac is a Linux VM, in (a fork of) xhyve which sits on top of the OSX hypervisor framework - the same thing backing Veertu.

Curious to the issues you're experiencing and if they disappear if you move to Veertu.

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

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Post by cmurf » Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 6:56 PM UTC

sjwright wrote: post #94

cmurf wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would/should Dell care about virtualization on macOS?

For the same reason any company should care about any product? Because selling goods and services at a profit is a sensible business model?

What if they estimate it's not worth the effort? Or is misaligned with other interests?

e.g. Apple could sell macOS licenses to run in a VM on non-Apple hardware, but they don't. To run macOS per the EULA, it can only be done on Apple hardware.

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

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Post by rufius » Sat, Nov 12, 2016, 1:29 AM UTC

mrmondo wrote: post #89

rufius wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see Parallels isn't in that list of software. Is there a reason you don't use it?

Parallels is even slower than VirtualBox and it's like Duplo to Lego, 'Parallels - my first VM'

Source on VirtualBox being faster? Couple of benchmarks I've seen put VirtualBox at considerably slower[1] and Fusion slightly to considerably faster than Parallels.

1- https://www.tekrevue.com/2015-vm-benchmarks-parallels-11-vs-...