From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix on macOS
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:59:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d7d3ec9f-f5ba-bd8f-cae8-dd26bc24a7af@fastmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmlbp64m.fsf@gnu.org>
On 13/10/2017 14:55, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 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.
Docker for Mac uses the macOS user-space virtualization facilities (via
xhyve: https://github.com/mist64/xhyve) to run a standard Linux kernel.
Targeting xhyve is an approach worth exploring in my opinion. It looks
feasible to generate all the required files via "guix system", using
nothing but tools that are already there. In fact, all it takes is some
repackaging because xhyve cannot (yet?) boot from a bootable disk image.
Advantage compared to VirtualBox: access to macOS file systems from the
guest (which VirtualBox can only achieve via non-free extension code).
Advantage compared to qemu: better performance, access to macOS
filesystems from the guest.
On the other hand, it is not obvious if there is a significant advantage
compared to just running Guix in a Docker container (which I haven't
tried yet).
Konrad.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-13 13:59 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
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 [this message]
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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