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LeFantome 61 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo...

Docker relies fundamentally on the Linux kernel. Since macOS does not have a Linux kernel, you have to run Linux in a VM first and then run Docker on top of that.

So, you may get filesystem access inside the VM. Breaking out of the VM may be a different matter.

repelsteeltje 60 days ago [–]

Precisely. There is nothing preventing you from doing the same in Linux: rather than installing docker, install docker on a Linux VM (ie. using KVM).

Conversely, docker containers don't actually exist on MacOs. Docker desktop is merely a way to emulate docker on apple hardware.

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