Docker image running a Mac OS X installation

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Vik picture Vik · Nov 27, 2016 · Viewed 47.8k times · Source

I am using Docker for Mac and wish to create Docker image running a Mac El Capitan with my development env.

I am not finding any resources on this. All I see is Linux installations.

On Linux I saw things as simple as:

FROM sciensa2/docker-java8
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y wget unzip libgtk2.0-0:amd64 libxtst6

But what would be the FROM value for OS X to install and run other software?

Answer

Haoming Zhang picture Haoming Zhang · Nov 27, 2016

If you are trying to run Mac OS as the base system in a Docker container, unfortunately there is no way to do it.

Docker container need to use the host machine's Linux Kernel, since Mac OS family is Unix-based operating system, currently Docker cannot simulate a Mac OS in Docker container. Here is a link to explain how container works.

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