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Running Linux MicroVMs on macOS (M1/M2) (slp.prose.sh)
29 points by slpnix 1414 days ago
2 comments

Nice that it supports networking and volume mounts out of the box. Volume mounts use virtio-fs which is experimentally supported in Docker for Mac[1].

Podman went with a volume mounting solution based on 9p[2], which appears to be far slower[3].

1: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/new-docker-mac-virtio...

2: https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9p

3: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/8016#issuecommen...

This looks really nice. Has anyone tried to set up a small dev environment with NOX Emacs, tmux, language tools of choice?