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by mateuszf 4139 days ago
It's called Docker.
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keslag 4139 days ago
Docker just spins up a VM on OS X with boot2docker so you don't get any real benefit here.
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ithkuil 4139 days ago
Yep, although it creates only one you can run a bunch of containers in it.

It feels almost as a native support, but the hack is betrayed by the networking setup.

I wish it would be possible to just expose ports on the real localhost.

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keslag 4139 days ago
Absolutely, I should have specified 'a single vm' in my response. I didn't understand that when I was first trying to understand boot2docker, and now I'm using imprecise language to help confuse others. Thanks for clarifying.
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Jean-Philipe 4139 days ago
Docker is not a VM and only works on Linux.
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billdstrong 4138 days ago
boot2docker is a commandline interface to docker that works on Windows, Mac and Linux. (Maybe *BSDs too.)

On non Linux systems, it downoads a prebuilt VM, and runs it with Virtualbox.

This is how Docker currently works on other OSes.

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