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<damo22>youpi: do you think its possible and/or useful to port docker to hurd?

<Arsen>no and yes in that order, I reckon ;)

<Arsen>well, unless "port" means what it does for the docker company; running VMs

<damo22>its not a vm its a "container"

<damo22>but maybe a native hurd implementation via a subhurd could work?

<youpi>that could be an idea yes

<damo22>there is already an ecosystem of container images, but they target the linux kernel and syscalls, i suppose this would be an additional OS

<damo22>but it would mean hurd users could benefit from specifying services as reproducible images that can be built and shared?

<damo22>not sure if its worth investing time into

<Arsen> 09:57:14 <damo22> its not a vm its a "container"

<Arsen>it's not a container on macOS and windows, which are the two official ports of docker

<Arsen>or, "ports", I should say

<damo22>ok i did not mean to make linux binaries run in a vm on hurd

<damo22>i meant to implement a shim layer that can build a Dockerfile using hurd natives

<damo22>and execute it with a docker-compose.yml file

<damo22>existing linux docker images would be broken

<damo22>but users could build new hurd ones

<damo22>docker was supposed to be a way to run subhurdish things on linux

<damo22>but we have that already

<damo22>but what we dont have is the container management of subhurd chroots

<damo22>do we have a kind of overlayfs?

<jab>yang3: you can use libreboot/coreboot on the Hurd, but you won't be able to run X.

<jab>if you are interested in fixing this "bug" reach out to do damo22

<jab>damo22: I know that sergey was hoping to work on a hurd container project. Shoot him an email.

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