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Those are awesome features! The one missing for me is bridge networking. Any idea why orbstack doesn’t have that? https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/342

We love OrbStack too! Thank you for it, I wanted to make its VM/machine our default secure agent sandbox, but I couldn’t figure out how to isolate this VM from the host properly. This thread prompted me to find the issue though, and I saw this was recently implemented! https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/169

No. It uses a VM to virtualize a Linux kernel running LXD containers. Those are not virtual machines. https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/461#issuecomment...

OrbStack is great in a lot of ways, and I universally prefer it over Docker for Mac. That being said, it wasn't always been smooth sailing. Under the hood, OrbStack uses an 8TB sparse disk image, which doesn't play nice with most backup software. https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/29 It caused me problems with Backblaze, but the Github issues for this show that it also breaks all sorts of backup software, including tarsnap, Druva inSync, Carbon Cloner, iDrive, Carbonite, and even Time Machine itself when formatted with HFS+, apparently. The official position for a year was "won't fix", because it's an Apple technology, and backup software should support that. While technically correct, realistically, sparse image backup support was not very widespread at the time. (I have no idea about now, since I gave up trying to back up my Or

It appears to be lxd, I assume a single vm with multiple lxd inside. https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/461#issuecomment...

There's a feature request for Vagrant support: https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/105 Hasn't been that common of a request, and honestly I've never used Vagrant so not familiar with its benefits. People are already using OrbStack machines and its "orb" command to build dev envs with setup scripts, and cloud-init support will also be added: https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/38 I think cloud-init will be more useful since it's already widely used for setting up servers, whereas Vagrant is only for dev envs, but correct me if I'm wrong.

I like lazydocker, but I really wish it understood Docker contexts without having to set `$DOCKER_HOST`. I switch between Colima[0] and OrbStack[1] and have multiple Colima virtualization profiles[2] (one with `vz`, one without), resulting in multiple Docker contexts. I have a function that I’ve written to set docker host, but I have to remember to clear it after I’m done using lazydocker and a couple of other tools (dive, I think). function set-docker-host command -sq docker and command -sq jq or return 1 set -l host ( docker context ls --format '{{ . | json }}' | jq -sr '.[] | select(.Current == true) | .DockerEndpoint' ) or return 1 set -gx DOCKER_HOST $host end The bash/zsh equivalent wouldn't be too hard, but I use fish. [0] https://github.com/ab

Totally fair! There are definitely still limitations. Support for "isolated" machines that don't have bind mounts is planned (https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/169). This is actually mostly implemented internally, but I'm not exposing it until a few remaining security gaps are plugged or it would just give a false sense of security. If you meant binding servers to specific interface IPs, it might be possible one day but it's very challenging to implement as all of the host's IPs need to be assigned to an interface in the guest and managed accordingly. If you meant connecting machines directly to your LAN, it'll be supported eventually but it's low priority due to unavoidable compatibility issues. https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/342

Hey, dev here. 265% CPU usage doing nothing is definitely not normal and could be a bug of some sort. Can you share what you were doing before closing it, and even better, send log files (OrbStack menu -> Show Logs) to logs@orbstack.dev or open an issue on GitHub [1]? Happy to look into this and fix it. Not sure what you mean about the images: you can pull images with the Docker CLI, and we'll add a GUI for managing images soon. To migrate images from Docker Desktop: https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/90 There's not enough space to put "Initial memory" in the landing page tab but the docs do clarify that the measurement is for initial memory usage: https://docs.orbstack.dev/benchmarks#initial-memory-usage Re memory usage: One of our advantages over Docker Desktop is that memory is allocated on demand, so I think it's fair. (Unfor

(dev here) Not right now, but it could be supported in the future. Just opened a feature request for that: https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/222 Correct me if I'm wrong, but Docker Desktop doesn't support this either as far as I know.