[mosen]

I've tried Docker Desktop, Rancher, Colima, all with various settings (including the disk ones), and it's always very, very slow for me (M1 Macbook Pro 16). This is when developing with both a .NET 7 stack and a Node stack.

I tried creating a VM and pointing my DOCKER_HOST to that, but it's still slow. The main problem is that I'm trying to work with AMD64 on an ARM64 (due to my constraints).

I'm going to set up an old non-M1 box in my office and use that as my Docker host. I am also tempted to use a cheap remote instance for when I'm OOO.

[iwebdevfromhome]

That’s very sad to hear. I was hoping that it was at least somewhat better with the release of Docker for Apple Silicon in 2021. I have very minimal use of docker most of the time but sometimes I require more use of it and I can see myself getting frustrated when I need to perform multiple builds.

[idontwantthis]

Have you turned on VirtioFS? With that on, it's not slow for me at all. I'm using a mix of ARM and AMD images. I have my source code mounted into running containers and there is no issue.