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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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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 fo=
r
>> 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=E2=80=99t even build a=
 tool
> like that without relying on proprietary software.  But we don=E2=80=99=
t have to
> build a tool like that, because it already exists in the form of virtua=
l
> 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=E2=80=99s 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... :)