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thejazzmantoday at 1:09 AM2 repliesview on HN

It mostly removes the big shared background VM and replaces it with smaller, more isolated Apple-native VMs.

I did an experiment migrating my Podman workload to Apple's container @ https://gist.github.com/jmonster/39e14585e107dbf990a90966c0f...

TL;DR reduces ram/storage usage; minimizes it's existence


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deathanatostoday at 1:50 AM

How does that work, realistically?

> Memory defaults to half of host memory

That's the most expensive part of the whole transaction, b/c AFAIK, RAM is then dedicated to the VM. It can be swapped out, I suppose, but that's not great.

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nozzlegeartoday at 2:55 AM

Nice, thanks for this. My plan is to swap over to Apple's containers for local dev, and keep using podman quadlets in production.