Docker running inside a macOS instance via Virtualization.framework on Apple Silicon and nesting containers?

[ylluminate]

• I have tried with the latest version of Docker Desktop
• I have tried disabling enabled experimental features
• I have uploaded Diagnostics

I have found it essential to provide some sandboxed developer environments for our organization and in the process discovered the need to run Docker on a macOS 12 instance inside Apple's Virtualization.framework on Apple Silicon. This amounts to nested virtualization, but currently Apple Silicon arm64 does NOT support nested virtualization.

It would be useful if Docker did not simply disallow running on macOS inside of a Virtualization.framework instance and instead offered the option to use qemu for executing non-macOS containers/operating systems.

This would perform relatively acceptably for doing many tasks and containers.

I am currently not seeing any way to do this, so I suspect that this is a feature request. Any information or discussion would be much appreciated.

[nicks]

We just launched Desktop support for nested virtualization on Windows
https://docs.docker.com/desktop/vm-vdi/
docker/roadmap#141
It's available to Docker Business customers.

If that's interesting to you, the repo here: https://github.com/docker/roadmap is probably a better place to talk to the product team about it. (the for-mac repo is more for bugs)

[ylluminate]

Thanks. I've made a comment over there - perhaps that will be helpful in establishing some discussion.

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