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macOS inside a Docker container.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2024-11-12 · latest 2026-01-21

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  1. …can specify includes xcode-tools, the accessibility APIs. Volume mounting. Network controls. etc. https://github.com/dockur/macos is a little too clunky? Tart VM or manually doing apple's container CLI is maybe most of the way there, but…
    comment by big_toast · 2026-01-21 · in Can you slim macOS down?
  2. re: https://github.com/dockur/macos A closer comparison here is Lumier, which provides a "Docker-like" interface to spin up VMs with a noVNC server: https://cua.ai/docs/lume/guide/advanced/lumier/docker The key difference: dockur/macos…
  3. …the additional layer of virtualization changes with respect to this in a project like this one: https://github.com/dockur/macos The unattended setup is a large improvement, which also begs the question: Mac OS doesn't have an…
  4. macOS does in fact runs well* on Linux, see: https://github.com/dockur/macos Edit: Well-ish, as there's no GPU acceleration as noted in the comments below.
  5. …for now: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling If you want a full macOS VM there's dockur's project: https://github.com/dockur/macos but no seamless mode support yet.
  6. Exactly, both https://github.com/dockur/macos and https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX rely on x86 and KVM for HW acceleration
    comment by frabonacci · 2025-05-15 · in Show HN: Lumier – Run macOS VMs in a Docker