Re: Guix on Macintosh?

[david larsson]

On 2023-06-19 14:50, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
[..]
> how a Mancintosh user can take advantage of Guix.
>
> There are quite a lot of programmers with those shiny Mac Laptops... 
> Of course, as a last resort, there must be some Intel emulators for
> these so one can install Linux and Windows on top of them but I wonder
> if:
>
> * Guix Package Manger can be installed within a Docker Container which
> can be hosted on a Macintosh?

I can't tell you about Docker directly on Mac, but I have Guix system 
virtualized on an intel Macbook myself.

For that, I can recommend the use of VMWare Fusion 12 which is free for 
personal non-commercial use and not too expensive for a license. The 
virtualization overhead is virtually non-existent (pun intended). It is 
in my experience much better than UTM - which freezes and had weird cpu 
errors when running intensive test suites on docker containers from 
within a VM. A general issue with Mac, virtualization and Docker is that 
you quickly run out of non-upgradable RAM on the Macbooks. For most 
development, 32GB RAM works much better than 16GB. If you run Sway on 
the Guix guest and want multiple monitors, it works fine with WMWare via 
wayvnc, if you connect from TurboVNC installed on the Mac host. You can 
solve issues with webcams, headsets, mice and keyboard using a bluetooth 
usb dongle and usb forwarding instead of relying on VMWare drivers for 
the same. Even nested virtualization works fine with VMWare on Macbook, 
albeit with a slight performance degradation.

Best regards,
David