It's not that we don't want to pay this money, it's just that I want to find an open source solution. According to the new price plan launched by Docker Desktop in August, each of us needs to pay a monthly subscription fee of at least $5. But LeanCloud is no longer a small company after joining TapTap. In the case of hardware virtualization support, QEMU can also use the host's CPU to run directly, reducing the performance overhead of simulation running, such as using Hypervisor.Framework provided by macOS.ĭocker for Mac actually uses these two capabilities of QEMU to run x86 images on ARM virtual machines and run ARM virtual machines on Mac.ĭocker for Mac is really good, in addition to solving the problems brought by the new architecture, it also maps the file system and the network, the container can access the file system or expose the network port to the machine as if it were running on the machine, it almost feels Without the presence of a virtual machine.

The so-called emulator means that QEMU can simulate running a computer without virtualization support from hardware or operating system, including simulation A different CPU architecture from the host, such as a computer that emulates the x86 architecture on Apple Silicon. QEMU is an open source virtual machine (Virtualizer) and emulator (Emulator). In April 2021, Docker for Mac (Docker Desktop) released experimental support for Apple Silicon, which will use QEMU to run an ARM-based Linux virtual machine, which runs ARM-based images by default, but also supports running Mirror for x86. Although the daily software such as Chrome, Visual Studio Code and Slack have been adapted well, it is difficult to face Docker.Īs we all know, Docker uses two features of Linux: namespaces and cgroups to provide isolation and resource constraints, so in any case on macOS we must use Docker through a virtual machine.

Recently, many colleagues in the company have switched to the new MacBook Pro equipped with M1 Pro or M1 Max. The picture shows the internal Wiki, we have tried various Docker development environments

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