Docker native support on OSX

I know there are some know issues about the extensive usage of the clone system call from docker. At the moment there is an issue #9 on github without solution...

Is there a plan to support natively docker on OSX kernel?

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Could you use vfork? I believe vfork is equivalent to clone with the flags CLONE_VM | CLONE_VFORK | SIGCHLD passed in.

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Actually only linux distros support docker natively...but on Mac OS X, devs must install virtualbox and user docker-machine.. :/

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already 4 years past. Mac Os x will be the best OS for developers once they added docker native support
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I can only repeat the last comment! Nativ support is absolutly needed for Docker! Even on the Apple M1 its quite slow and container interactions are often delayed for a couple of seconds (tested with qemu and hyperkit - both perform bad).
Docker is not software made by apple, its made by the Community, SUSE and Docker Inc.
Anyways it would be awesome if Apple would interact even more with the Docker community or at least provide a framework that can natively run containers and is compatible with the container open-build format. Also support for docker-compose would be awesome.
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+1 Absolutely needed.

Networking is completely busted with the current approach, and I've never been a fan of MacOS filesystem support either.

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Adding the "me too". It'd be a dev life changing!

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Yes, I think this is particularly important for e.g. Java-based containers, where the contained applications are in fact platform independent and could run natively on Mac OS outside of Docker, but are forced into emulation when running inside Docker.

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