Comment by rockyj
3 days ago
Colima is related but separate, Colima runs a Linux VM seamlessly in MacOS so you can interact with Docker as if it was running on your host OS. Podman will also need a VM (coz there is no native Docker on MacOS).
3 days ago
Colima is related but separate, Colima runs a Linux VM seamlessly in MacOS so you can interact with Docker as if it was running on your host OS. Podman will also need a VM (coz there is no native Docker on MacOS).
That sounded like podman needs docker. It's more of a mostly compatible separate product that does not need a daemon to run. Both probably lack things like cgroups (a Linux kernel really) etc on macos.
Podman Desktop uses a VM on windows too.(WSL2)