As I understand it, with Docker For Mac, what we really have is: Native Mac OSX An entire linux VM system running on the Mac OSX using the hypervisor technology of the Mac to begin with. Every other container as a container on top of the linux VM system. This leaves me wanting to poke into this …

Ask a stupid question and then the answer presents itself on the very next google search: [image] Is it possible to ssh to the xhyve machine? Docker Desktop for Mac I’ve got a process eating all my resources, it’d be helpful to finding it if I could run ps fax on the host…

Docker for mac uses xhyve to virtualize a linux vm, but perfomance is not so good. What I recommend, if you can, is switch to a machine with linux installed.

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garyamort (Garyamort) February 19, 2018, 9:04pm 2

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