Curious: Does the usage of CoreOS replace Docker OSX's virtualbox linux VM it us...

manojlds · on Oct 17, 2016

Docker for Mac ditches VirtualBox and uses a more native xhyve. Also, I believe, Alpine Linux is used as the OS for the xhyve VM.

This uses the same Xhyve driver with CoreOS as base OS.

mikey_p · on Oct 17, 2016

Yes, but why does this depend on Docker for OS X if it's not reusing Docker's Alpine VM?

dlor · on Oct 17, 2016

Docker's new Alpine VM isn't really designed to be reused. AFAICT the interfaces are private and undocumented.

Reusing xhyve/hyperkit seems more stable, given that they're designed to be embedded.

manojlds · on Oct 17, 2016

No, this does not depend on Docker for OS X. They both use the underlying driver.