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container
A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.
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Containarium
Open-source agent runtime — SSH-native isolation, eBPF egress policy, Kubernetes + LXC backends, GPU passthrough, MCP-native CLI
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munal-os
An experimental operating system fully written in Rust, with a unikernel design, cooperative scheduling and a security model based on WASM sandboxing.
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SaaSHub
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An Architecture to Run AI Agents Safely and Efficiently in a Linux VM on Apple Silicon
Option B: run it in a VM or container for isolation. This is the "correct" answer on paper, and it runs straight into a wall specific to Apple Silicon: Apple's Virtualization.framework does not expose the host GPU to a Linux guest like the way it does for macOS guests. This isn't a rumor, it's confirmed directly by Apple's own container team in their public repos, in response to people asking for exactly this: GPU passthrough availability? and Paravirtualized Graphics via virtio-gpu. A macOS guest gets a purpose-built Metal-based GPU driver; a Linux guest gets virtio-gpu, a paravirtualized 2D device with no path to the host's compute GPU. Running a 7B model inside the VM is dramatically slower than the same model on the host.
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Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
Reminds me of sandboxy - https://github.com/apple/containerization/tree/main/examples...
Also if your thing doesn't work with `pi` out of the box, then low effort
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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
What is an easy way to achieve this on a Mac?
tl;dr: if I run claude/harness inside "code" at "~//work/code", it would be great if the harness can't even see "code" is inside "work" (and even I can't make it know that by some quick "Yes(y)")
I want something like: claude/opencode/pi/etc has no existence or capacity outside a file access boundary, say a given folder that (e.g.) lies here "~//code". Even if I want, I can't run claude outside it, because it isn't installed outside it. Even if Claude wants it can't read/write/execute/install anything outside it.
Basically I want the harness(es) and my code folder(s) sandboxed [0] inside just one folder and below it in folder hierarchy at least for file access limitations.
Will this pose the challenge of using the system wide cli tools like ls, cd, git et cetera? If it gets a handle on those tools outside that sandboxed folder then pretty much can it execute it in any other folder? So should those tools also be part of that container?
I guess something like docker does that, but do I necessarily need a docker like app/tool? It will use a lot of system resources on its own. A different mac login won't be great either.
I do not want to use claude's /sandbox (or something like this), that will defeat the purpose. Because it's not about "it won't", but because "it can't".
https://github.com/apple/containerization doesn't sound like what I am looking for. So is docker, lima etc are my only options? Not to mention I will lose access to a lot of cli tools I use on mac.
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Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop
everyone loving these linux sandboxes, even Apple wrote one https://github.com/apple/containerization/tree/main/examples...
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Apple Container 0.9.0
https://github.com/apple/containerization/blob/main/Sources/...
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Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28
They barely just released Containerization Framework[0] and the new container[1] tool, and they are already scheduling a kneecapping of this two years down the line.
Realistically, people are still going to be deploying on x64 platforms for a long time, and given that Apple's whole shtick was to serve "professionals", it's really a shame that they're dropping the ball on developers like this, their new containerization stuff was the best workflow improvement for me in quite a while.
[0] https://github.com/apple/containerization
[1] https://github.com/apple/container
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macOS Tahoe
The most notable change is probably the new native container runtime: https://github.com/apple/containerization
Metal 4 is interesting: https://developer.apple.com/metal/whats-new/
New enterprise-y stuff: https://support.apple.com/en-us/124963
FireWire support is gone, and this is the last macOS release for Intel.
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Apple Announces Foundation Models Framework for Developers to Leverage AI
If you search the code, they support Rosetta, which means an ARM Linux kernel running x86 container userspace with Rosetta translation.
Actually, they explained it in detail here: https://github.com/apple/containerization/issues/70#issuecom...
It's unclear whether this will keep being supported in macOS 28+, though: https://github.com/apple/container/issues/76
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Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
The submission is about https://github.com/apple/containerization, not https://github.com/apple/container.
The former is for apps to ship with container sidecars (and cooler news IMO); the latter is 'I am a developer and I want to `docker run ...`'.
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Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime
https://github.com/apple/containerization is the framework being used to drive this feature
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apple/containerization is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of containerization is Swift.
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