Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Christopher wrote this: > >> Is there a way to maybe run Guix in some sort of namespaced or some >> variant of "virtualized" or "contained" way that we could recommend for >> OSX users, without having to bend over backwards to accomodate a >> different libc and etc? > > In order to use the Hypervisor framework that macOS 10.10 and higher > provide we would need to use Xcode, so we couldn’t even build a tool > like that without relying on proprietary software. But we don’t have to > build a tool like that, because it already exists in the form of virtual > machine applications (or even Docker for Mac). > > The best we could do on macOS is to run applications in a GNU virtual > machine and try hard to make them blend in. That’s not really > appealing, neither technically nor practically, in my opinion.
I think someone told me this is exactly how Docker does it, or used to do it, for quite some time. So we'd hardly be alone... :)
