Has anyone gotten docker running?

[andrew-clarkson]

I tried Docker desktop, which does not play nice, as well as brew install Docker compose, Docker sync, engine, machine, etc.

I don't need desktop, but I do need to get Docker up and running.

Thanks!

[EamonKeane]

Did you find a solution?

I believe Apple Silicon doesn't support nested virtualization.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/nested-virtualization-on-m1-m2-macs-possible.2353945/

Additionally docker I don't think supports nested virtualization on MacOS (even on Intel).

[andriysavin]

Since macOS Sequoia, nested virtualization is supported for Macs with M3 and later CPUs for Linux guests. It seems to be just a matter of setting couple of properties in VM settings: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vzgenericplatformconfiguration/4360553-isnestedvirtualizationsupported

[zcutlip]

If you don't need docker desktop, you may want to give Colima a try:

$ brew install colima
$ colima start
$ docker run -t "hello-world"

I used it all the time in development. For more information:
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

[daemontroll]

Not sure that Colima works in virtual machines on Apple silicon. I think it has the same issue as other virtualization. The hypervisor software requires support for direct hardware interaction and although now supported on Sequoia I don't think it is supported in virtual buddy yet. For that matter I'm not aware of a solution that does yet since the support for it is relatively new.

[daemontroll]

Since nested virtualization is now supported I would like to see this feature in VirtualBuddy.

[VSGitt]

Can someone please verify if nested virtualization is already supported by VirtualBuddy when running on the latest macOS (both host and guest)?

Thank you.

[daemontroll]

I do not see a method of enabling the vtt and other options needed to do nested virtualization. So I don't think it is possible at this point. I would like to see that happen since Sequoia now supports it.

[daemontroll]

UTM has added nested virtualization for Linux systems. Probably using the documentation linked above and here, https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vzgenericplatformconfiguration/4360553-isnestedvirtualizationsupported. I would love to see this feature come to virtual buddy for MacOS.

[insidegui]

I don't think there's anything to implement. As long as you're on hardware that supports it, nested virtualization should just work.

[daemontroll]

How do I enable the hypervisor extensions? I am on an M3 which supports vm in a vm from what I can tell from the most recent OS update release notes.