Docker-OSX vs lima

Docker-OSX

Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers. (by sickcodes)

#Docker #OSX #MacOS #X11 #Container #KVM #osx-kvm #docker-osx #Os #X

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hub.docker.com

lima

Linux virtual machines, typically on macOS, for running containerd (by lima-vm)

#Vm #Qemu #MacOS #Containerd

Source Code

lima-vm.io

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Docker-OSX		lima
	Project
109	Mentions	83
29,441	Stars	10,948
-	Growth	3.8%
5.0	Activity	9.3
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
Shell	Language	Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Docker-OSX

Posts with mentions or reviews of Docker-OSX. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-22.

Should I dual-boot Ventura for daily purposes?
2 projects | reddit.com/r/hackintosh | 22 Mar 2023

If all you really need is to write swift, you could use something like https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX or https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/
Updated Racks for 2023
3 projects | reddit.com/r/homelab | 11 Mar 2023

It’ll even run in docker. Not legally though on any non-Apple hardware.
Is it possible to get Docker OSX running on Synology?
2 projects | reddit.com/r/docker | 10 Mar 2023

Have you searched their issues or posted there? Unlikely that someone browsing this subreddit has experience with this specific image.

2 projects | reddit.com/r/docker | 10 Mar 2023
Vanilla OS can finish my distro hopping with these subsystems: MacOS, Fedora, Alpine, Void, Windows, Ubuntu, Arch and OpenSUSE. Also bye to these dual boots...
7 projects | reddit.com/r/linux | 19 Feb 2023

I found an actual way that should work. I am not sure if it will be compatible with the built-in Podman, if not then install Docker in one of the containers. https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX

7 projects | reddit.com/r/linux | 19 Feb 2023
Zephyrus M16 Hackintosh
2 projects | reddit.com/r/hackintosh | 3 Feb 2023

Or if you wanna run everything in a docker container: https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
Duality of man
4 projects | reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor | 29 Jan 2023
Would it be possible to have a MacOS container?
2 projects | reddit.com/r/kasmweb | 29 Jan 2023

There is this project https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX which allows you to run MacOS on docker. In theory this can be an app in Kasm, right?
FLiP Stack Weekly for 21 Jan 2023
19 projects | dev.to | 23 Jan 2023

lima

Posts with mentions or reviews of lima. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-11.

Box64 – Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator Targeted at ARM64 Linux Devices
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2023

Have you seen https://github.com/lima-vm/lima ?
Runs linux VMs and can run x64 via quemu or even using rosetta2 & apple virtualization framework
Shell Manager akin to Windows Terminal
2 projects | reddit.com/r/macapps | 2 Mar 2023

Yeah exactly, also I not that unnecessary since stuff like Lima exists.
Podman vs. Docker: Comparing the Two Containerization Tools – Linode
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2023

I got fed up with Docker having a "Virtual machine service" using like 4GB of memory (while running no containers) on my 8GB Mac so I investigated what I thought would be "native" (arm64) Lima.
I tried this k8s https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/f7e7addab557da560da7146... example thinking it'd be a thin wrapper around QEMU.
6gb+ usage RAM with nothing deployed lol
The disconnect to me is weird. I'm pretty sure with qemu-system-aarch64, Debian/Alpine don't use more than 100-200mb of RAM sitting idle. Where does 6GB of RAM usage come from?
Not that I think it's a great use of time to optimize for this whatsoever. I just thought it'd be a fun exercise.
Executando (e orquestrando) containers no MacOS com Lima e Colima
2 projects | dev.to | 20 Jan 2023
Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2023

iTerm2 and lima [1] with a ARM64 Linux virtual machine w/ Rosetta enabled me to fall in love with my MacBook Pro in this regard. i feel more productive than on a Linux machine now. MacOS is not without its developer power tools, if you dig around enough!
[1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
Forget Azure SQL Edge on a M1 Mac—Run full-blown SQL Server Linux instead (a how-to)
9 projects | dev.to | 12 Jan 2023

View on GitHub
Is there anything like WSL2 in Mac?
2 projects | reddit.com/r/MacOS | 9 Jan 2023
How do you set up a local k8s cluster on Mac OS?
2 projects | reddit.com/r/kubernetes | 2 Jan 2023

Lima-VM has a Kubernetes quickstart option here. There's also a k3s option.
How Colima Is A Good Alternative To Docker Desktop
6 projects | dev.to | 10 Dec 2022

Colima is a VM based on Lima providing container runtimes in MacOS/Linux.
Running Arm64.aarch64 FreeBSD on QEMU/UTM.app on Apple Silicon
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Nov 2022

That is cool. Satisfying to figure out an optimization like that!
A little off topic, but on my M1 Macs I have been using Lima https://github.com/lima-vm/lima to get shells running in a Linux container.
Google has done a very good job adding containerization to ChromeOS. I keep a Lenovo Chromebook around for quick access to Linux. I find myself doing this more often than SSHing to a VPS.