Comment by LeFantome
2 months ago
Docker relies fundamentally on the Linux kernel. Since macOS does not have a Linux kernel, you have to run Linux in a VM first and then run Docker on top of that.
So, you may get filesystem access inside the VM. Breaking out of the VM may be a different matter.
Precisely. There is nothing preventing you from doing the same in Linux: rather than installing docker, install docker on a Linux VM (ie. using KVM).
Conversely, docker containers don't actually exist on MacOs. Docker desktop is merely a way to emulate docker on apple hardware.