[kata-dev] recommendations for Mac developer environments?

Middleton, Dan dan.middleton at intel.com
Mon Aug 2 12:55:04 UTC 2021


Thanks, Sam!
I will look into using parallels. Meanwhile I did get a Nuc+Ubuntu dusted off over the weekend and got (most of) kata building. 

Cheers,
Dan

On 8/2/21, 12:28 AM, "Samuel Ortiz" <samuel.e.ortiz at protonmail.com> wrote:

    Hi Dan,

    > On 30 Jul 2021, at 20:08, Middleton, Dan <dan.middleton at intel.com> wrote:
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > I’ve read through contributing.md[1] and the developer guide[2].
    >
    > It looks like the recommended path might be for me to setup a linux box and use a packaged install. I typically develop on my mac, though, and I'm wondering if there's some best practices / tricks for working within darwin?
    >
    > Also, I work on a variety of projects and there is often a way to encapsulate the dev environment for each using vagrant or docker so the system isn't exposed to dependency cross-contamination :)
    > Has anyone worked out something like that for their Kata work?

    I am also now developing on a Mac ;-)
    Since you can’t run Kata natively on MacOS, you’re going to end up doing nested virt, either through Docker, Vagrant or a VM.
    Based on this, I personally think it makes a lot more sense to run a full blown Linux VM and develop on top of it. I use Parallels and the parallels hypervisor (not the hvf one) and that seems to work fine for me.

    Hope this helps.

    Cheers.
    Samuel.






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