From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: Guix on macOS Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:59:50 -0500 Message-ID: <87o9pbnimh.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <87bmldavre.fsf@gmail.com> <87efq8pwrf.fsf@gnu.org> <87mv4viknx.fsf@gmail.com> <87bmlbp64m.fsf@gnu.org> <87tvz3f8rv.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e32NO-00016i-HM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:59:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e32NL-0004aJ-HV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:59:54 -0400 In-reply-to: <87tvz3f8rv.fsf@elephly.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > >> Windows recently gained an in-kernel Linux syscall emulation, which >> means that (GNU/)Linux binaries can run unmodified on Windows. >> >> If macOS had a similar feature, that=E2=80=99d be perfect: we wouldn=E2= =80=99t have >> anything to do. Perhaps Docker-for-Mac actually provides something >> close to that? I really don=E2=80=99t know. > > IIUC, Docker for Mac uses macOS virtualization libraries. Previously, > it would require an installation of VirtualBox, but this is no longer > the case. Oh, I see you already replied with essentially the same message I replied to you with... :) So effectively "if it is (or was) good enough for Docker, why couldn't this be good enough for us as a path forward?"