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> If you wonder why that is, it's because Docker for Mac actually runs the Docker engine inside a Linux virtual machine.

True of Windows too.




Doesnt more recent Docker versions use HyperKit?


Correct but it’s still a virtual machine.


I think I see your point, so it's not like the old explicit Boot2Docker mechanism but you are not running containers natively, right?


It’s not like Docker on Linux, where there are cgroups and everything just zooms along.


Not when using Windows containers.




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