Comment by jFriedensreich 4 days ago
orbstack is just a vm provider for docker on mac, colima offers the same features without a ui and is a great open replacement but as neither supports podman both are not really relevant to the podman discussion.
I haven't used OrbStack in a while but would you say Colima or OrbStack is faster? At least on Intel Mac Colima is for me way better than Docker. Also better than Podman in terms of compatibility, although I had to switch back to Docker Desktop since I need full compat.
can you back that claim up? i see a huge difference between orbstack and docker desktop but colima and orbstack use afaik the same technology and the performance was near identical in my tests. (Though you need to change the colima settings to vz and virtiofs)
> but as neither supports podman both are not really relevant to the podman discussion
FWIW lima (upon which COlima was built) ships with "boot me up a podman": <https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/v1.2.1/templates/podman...> and <https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/v1.2.1/templates/podman...>
I can't think of any stellar reason why colima couldn't also support it, since they even go out of their way to support Incus as a runtime, but I don't currently have the emotional energy to prosecute such a PR
The UI of OrbStack is probably one the biggest features, so a replacement without the UI doesn't make a ton of sense for most people that like OrbStack.