[raihansaputra]

Are you installing the project dependencies on the VM directly or in a docker container? I'm curious how well docker on top of the Ubuntu vm works. Orbstack is great for personal use, but some companies don't want to pay for it, and this might be an alternative to have a better docker experience on macOS.

[arkh]

> I'm curious how well docker on top of the Ubuntu vm works.

Works well enough. Better than Docker on barebone MacOS if you have lot of file access in a volume.

That's one of the thing which surprised me when I started using VMs to develop. First time was with a postgres backed app: I expected to lose performance when moving everything in a VM. But got the exact opposite result at the time. Postgres really liked the linux filesystem more than the windows one, enough to do more than offset the VM tax.

[disintegrator]

I work directly in my guest os and clone my projects and run them in there. There are some projects that are driven through docker-compose and that works nicely. The one caveat is that I had to install `apt install binfmt-support qemu-user-static` so that docker can run x86_64 images on my arm64 VM.

[UltraSane]

docker in a VM works fine because docker isn't a VM and just uses Linux features like pivot-root, namespaces, and cgroups to isolate programs. At least on x86 CPUs you can even do nested virtualization if the CPU supports it.