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boot2docker on xhyve

15 Jun, 2015

xhyve is a new hypervisor in the vein of KVM on Linux and bhyve on BSD. It’s actually a port of BSD’s bhyve to OS X and more similar to KVM than to Virtualbox in that it’s minimal and command line only which makes it a good fit for an always running virtual machine like boot2docker on OS X.
This post documents the steps to get boot2docker running within xhyve and contains some quick benchmarks to compare xhyve’s performance with Virtualbox.
Read the full blogpost on Simon van der Veldt’s website

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