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by nico 829 days ago
This is incredibly cool!

Currently using docker as a way to easily distribute and run an open project[1], this would be great to use on top of docker

Will this run ok on a Mac? (I see the feature is pending, any tests done yet?)

[1] https://github.com/nicobrenner/commandjobs

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Thanks!

> Will this run ok on a Mac?

I've managed to make it work but unfortunately not in a way that produces portable binaries. I just need to figure out how to selectively statically link some of the QEMU dependencies or write a runtime that uses Apple's VirtualizationFramework.

For Windows, I recommend looking into running in WSL2 instead of trying to get QEMU working in a performant way. It's pretty easy to install a custom lightweight WSL2 image and run it.
Could you use something more lightweight than qemu (e.g. firecracker)?
Really impressive! Amazing work, thank you for sharing :)