From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix on macOS
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:58:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po9rnip7.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760bkgigb.fsf@elephly.net>
Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> Christopher wrote this:
>
>> Is there a way to maybe run Guix in some sort of namespaced or some
>> variant of "virtualized" or "contained" way that we could recommend for
>> OSX users, without having to bend over backwards to accomodate a
>> different libc and etc?
>
> In order to use the Hypervisor framework that macOS 10.10 and higher
> provide we would need to use Xcode, so we couldn’t even build a tool
> like that without relying on proprietary software. But we don’t have to
> build a tool like that, because it already exists in the form of virtual
> machine applications (or even Docker for Mac).
>
> The best we could do on macOS is to run applications in a GNU virtual
> machine and try hard to make them blend in. That’s not really
> appealing, neither technically nor practically, in my opinion.
I think someone told me this is exactly how Docker does it, or used to
do it, for quite some time. So we'd hardly be alone... :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-13 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-12 3:29 Guix on macOS Chris Marusich
2017-10-12 8:08 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-10-12 8:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-12 20:35 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-12 21:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-13 15:58 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2017-10-13 7:14 ` Chris Marusich
2017-10-13 11:47 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-13 12:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-13 13:59 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-10-13 13:59 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-13 15:59 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-13 14:08 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-10-25 15:50 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-10-27 4:11 ` Chris Marusich
2017-10-27 7:56 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-10-28 20:27 ` Building Docker images of GuixSD Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-31 2:59 ` Chris Marusich
2017-11-05 15:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-09 6:15 ` Chris Marusich
2017-11-09 6:43 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-11-09 8:23 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-11-17 21:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-27 22:13 ` Christopher Baines
2017-11-30 9:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-07 9:33 ` Chris Marusich
2017-12-16 2:30 ` Chris Marusich
2017-10-12 19:09 ` Guix on macOS Christopher Baines
2017-10-25 14:45 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-10-27 1:06 ` Chris Marusich
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