The answer, of course, is that anyone who builds product based on a legally grey area is at risk when that area begins to crumble.

Its really a full system emulator (qemu) running inside Docker, using root privileges on the container that make the isolation very weak (--privileged).

It also uses hardware assisted virtualization (KVM) which is not going to be available most of the time Docker is.

You can think of the Docker platform itself as subset of the Linux platform.

SYSPTRACE, cgroups come to mind as not allowed within the container.

This Docker as a subset of Linux is also what you end up getting from most Docker as a service platforms offered by clouds, including kubernetes.

Im referring to AWS Fargate, Google Cloud Run, GKE, AKS, here.) So dont think of this as macOS in docker wherever docker runs.

What would be a lot more analogous to macOS in docker would be running Darling in docker.

I wonder if you could get macOS to boot in QEMU without hardware assisted virtualization.

Then you could probably run this in a fully isolated container again.

So if someone has a headless OS X contraption on offer, I want to hear some more about it.

The last time I set this up, a manager decided he wanted a laptop like the rest of us instead of the iMac he got.

He asked semi-jokingly if someone wanted the machine for anything and I said Yes, I do before he even got the sentence out.

There was just enough memory on the machine for me to set up a few Jenkins agents on it, one for Safari, the rest using the Selenium-maintained docker images.

This project relies on OSX-KVM, which is a thing that already exists.

The dockerization of that project (what this post is about) is a gimmick as described by GP.

Except it automates the fetching of the macOS installation media and launching qemu, which is exactly what OSX-KVM already does.

This project does nothing additional to automate the actual installation of macOS inside the VM.

I wish Apple supported installation automation like Microsoft does with sysprep (or Linux with kickstartpreseed).

The best Ive found is Arduino USB devices that pretend to be a keyboard and mouse to manually advance the installer, which is super lame automation 1.

Definitely not great as an actual process, but this sounds like a super cool project.

This is simply because all Apple devices come with an OS preinstalled.

And you have tools like Jamf for any enterprise fleet management needs.

The falling away of the perception of an intrinsicly-existing self doesnt change that theres still perception.

Back on topic though: its too bad Apple doesnt allow licenses for running things headlessly like this.

How I interpreted the use of the koan: Apple has no history of legally chasing those who virtualize their operating system; as this is a non-topic thusfar -- who cares The hammer may fall one day, but so far why are we worried about a legal response that doesnt seem to exist.

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