

However, I do think that messing about with things like this is the only way to gain extra knowledge of any system internals.

Well, I don't see any practical applications of the approach I'm going to describe. It may help me to develop a second generation of this tool covering real-world scenarios with a more user-friendly UX. If you’re aware of the real use of the docker-to-linux project, please drop me a message and share your experience. It was built for linux and if you don't switch to linux you'll waste your time troubleshooting issues like these for no real reason.UPD: Two years after writing this article I clearly can see some interest in building VM images from containers and/or Dockerfiles. I wouldn't recommend using Docker for Mac. Option 3: Run Docker on linux (recommended!)
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Option 2: create a docker-machine using the virtualbox driver and add the device to the virtualbox vm (still not recommended)įollow this great tutorial here which goes through installing a docker machine with a virtualbox driver and mounting the USB stick. Making sure that the directory of your volume has been added to the file sharing folders in Docker. When you have mounted your device, add it to your ubuntu container with the -v flag, docker run -v : -it ubuntu bash
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I have installed ext4fuse on your Mac by following this tutorial. Whilst your Mac doesn't natively support ext4, there are ways around this. Option 1: Mount the ext4 drive to your Mac (not recommended) Unfortunately, Hyperkit has issues with USB device passthrough from your MacOS to the hypervisor (read more here) so the -device command won't be much use to you here. This means Docker only sees devices connected to the hyperkit hypervisor, rather than the devices connected to the Mac.

That's why I'm trying to pass through the device to the Linux Docker container, but the device isn't shown.ĭocker was built for linux, it runs on Mac through HyperkIT, which is a lightweight hypervisor. However, I cannot mount it on macOS host, as the partition is formatted to Linux file system (ext4) which is not supported.
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