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csm232s
csm232s

Reputation: 1660

Docker for Mac and VMWare Fusion

So I have Docker for Mac installed and I would like to use VMWare Fusion rather than VirtualBox. Doing a search, I came across https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/vm-fusion/ using docker-machine. Not sure if that's what I'm looking for but when the Docker app starts I can see that the VMWare Fusion machine is suspended. Is there additional setup required to get new containers to run off of VMWare Fusion rather than VirtualBox?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4861

Answers (1)

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 74791

Docker for Mac actually uses a native virtual machine implementation called xhyve based on the OSX Hypervisor.framework. Docker for Windows uses HyperV in a similar fashion.

Using a native VM implementation allows for tighter integration into the Docker app, rather than doing everything via Virtualbox's VBoxManage command as with the original boot2docker image and Docker Toolbox setup.

Upvotes: 7

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