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MacOS support #1270

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ianlewis opened this issue Nov 26, 2019 · 6 comments
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MacOS support #1270

ianlewis opened this issue Nov 26, 2019 · 6 comments
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priority: p3 Low priority status: help wanted Extra attention is needed type: enhancement New feature or request

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gVisor running on MacOS could provide an environment for Mac users to develop and run Linux containers on a Mac machine without needing to install Linux via a VM or Docker for Mac etc.

Some investigation needs to happen in order scope out what would be needed.
@ianlewis ianlewis added type: enhancement New feature or request priority: p3 Low priority good first issue Good for newcomers status: help wanted Extra attention is needed and removed good first issue Good for newcomers labels Nov 26, 2019
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sbrki commented Apr 2, 2020

@ianlewis are you sure this would work? Linux syscalls could be translated into native Darwin syscalls by gvisor, but I think the host kernel (in this case Darwin) needs to have cgroups in order for this to work in the first place.

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ianlewis commented Apr 2, 2020

@psycadet Yeah, cgroups specifically may not be able to be supported natively. It may be that a virtualized shim (e.g. HyperKit) is needed like Docker for Mac or there may be other ways to make it work natively on a Mac. There will be a lot of challenges to be sure, but it would be an interesting feature if someone wanted to try and support it.

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netstack: fix Mac build error
82793c5 
- Stub out sighandling functions with panics on Darwin
- Put Linux-specific errors into their own syserr file

Not sure how best to get automated tests running, so I'll leave that for a later
change.

Fixes #6839.
Related to #1270.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 409516969
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mark platforms as Linux-only
2bedb2d 
Related to #1270.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 411648212
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@kevinGC @gvisor-bot
darwin: sighandling support
ffeb154 
Part of #1270.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 410109169
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Hey @ianlewis did this ever get any traction?

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@mauriciogg @kevinGC has been looking at it and has done the work to get us closer to full Mac support so he's the one to ask.

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l1n commented Oct 28, 2024

Interested in this again, if it's still being worked on!

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kevinGC commented Oct 30, 2024

It's not currently, unfortunately. No reason it can't be done, it's just that nobody has had the time to do it.

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