I wish apple would support a couple extra kernel features (like bind mounts) so we can have native macOS 'containers' instead of this nonsense. Running MySQL by running qemu inside a Linux VM is just insane. Nix can fill some of the same roles, but it doesn't work on M1 yet
> native macOS 'containers' instead of this nonsense. Running MySQL by running qemu inside a Linux VM is just insane.
A ‘native’ container would be running the MacOS kernel. You could run MacOS software in it, but it would be incompatible with Linux docker images.
Wouldn't some kind of "syscall proxy" or a wrapper possible? There is gVisor [1] which if I understand correctly re-implements Linux kernel in userspace for security, pretty interesting. Such layer would have to re-implement missing pieces in Mach kernel though so maybe it would not be as easy.