Damn, I did not know you need a VM for Docker on macOS. That's kind of ironic, i...

maleldil · 2026-08-30T17:07:36

WSL2 is also a virtual machine.

anglesideangle · 2026-08-30T17:08:22

WSL2 is also a VM. docker relies on the linux kernel apis, so it must be ran inside a linux VM on macos or windows

isityettime · 2026-08-30T17:13:15

Windows does have a native sandboxing API that Docker is capable of using IIRC, but nobody uses it.

The macOS situation is even worse in that the kernel lacks the requisite capabilities.

skydhash · 2026-08-30T17:04:58

Isn’t WSL2 vm based?

WD-42 · 2026-08-30T17:11:45

I’d rather run real Linux in a VM than a buggy appropriation of it in WSL