Container machines: persistent Linux dev VMs unique to Apple's container runtime
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-19
Container Desktop highlights container machines, a feature unique to Apple's container runtime: persistent Linux dev VMs with your home folder mapped at the same path, a real init system so services like sshd and Postgres run, your own username with passwordless sudo, and disks that persist installed packages across restarts. The app manages machines alongside containers, with resizable CPU/memory/disk. Note machines are not sandboxes — full home-folder read-write and all SSH agent keys — so run untrusted code in regular containers instead.
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