From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Guix on macOS Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:59:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87tvz3f8rv.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87bmldavre.fsf@gmail.com> <87efq8pwrf.fsf@gnu.org> <87mv4viknx.fsf@gmail.com> <87bmlbp64m.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33119) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e30Vl-0007Yy-Sf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:00:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e30Vj-0000VD-JJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:00:25 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e30Vj-0000Qj-6M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:00:23 -0400 In-reply-to: <87bmlbp64m.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Courtès 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’d be perfect: we wouldn’t have > anything to do. Perhaps Docker-for-Mac actually provides something > close to that? I really don’t know. IIUC, Docker for Mac uses macOS virtualization libraries. Previously, it would require an installation of VirtualBox, but this is no longer the case. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net