[otterley]

AFAICT podman machine relies on VirtualBox. This would be an enormous performance and resource regression on MacOS — Docker Desktop uses the much more performant and resource-conscious native hypervisor frameworks instead.

[SirGiggles]

This doesn't seem accurate.

According to a post on the podman website: "Current implementation relies on qemu which currently has some platform dependencies." [1]

I also just checked on my machine and it is indeed running on Qemu.

IIRC Qemu also has support for Apple's Hypervisor.framework.

[1] https://podman.io/community/meeting/notes/2021-04-06/#podman...

[otterley]

You are correct - thanks!

[letmeinhere]

If true, also untenable since last I checked VBox doesn't plan to support ARM hosts (including the new Mac chipset)