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by paxys 2009 days ago
Docker has never needed a VirtualBox VM to launch containers on your Mac. It does its own virtualization internally, and will continue to do so.
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Wowfunhappy 2009 days ago
It actually did at one point; before Docket Desktop there was “Docker Toolbox”, which required separate virtualization software. The installer came with Virtualbox by default, but there were options to use Parallels and VMWare as well. This is probably what GP is thinking of.

I'm actually using a version of this setup today in order to run Docker on OS X 10.9.

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