[emmelaich]

Speaking of OSX, what is there equivalent?

I've used Solaris Zones and LXC containers, but the closest thing on OSX is sandbox. But that's not very close as far as I can tell.

[lucian1900]

OS X has no containerisation equivalent. The closest thing is the venerable chroot, but the behaviour is not comparable.

Perhaps a Docker chroot backend could be built though, for easier development on OS X.

[turnip1979]

I was just thinking what a pain it is to have to use VMs/ssh in order to get access to containers from my Mac OS machine. It made be (semi-seriously) consider getting a Linux machine as my next laptop. I'm still a bit skeptical but it is a start to think about it.

[hhsnopek]

Just dual boot Arch on your current machine, it's pretty easy and you get to keep using the Mac hardware! :D