[whinvik]

Sorry for the naive question but specifically for running Claude on a sandbox, why do people decide to use lume as opposed to running it on Docker?

[frabonacci]

Docker on Mac runs Linux containers inside a Linux VM - you can't run macOS in Docker. So if you need Claude / Codex / OpenCode to interact with:

- macOS GUI apps (Xcode, Numbers, Safari, etc.) - macOS desktop automation (screenshots, mouse/keyboard input, accessibility APIs) - macOS CI/CD (building iOS/macOS apps, running XCTest)

...you need an actual macOS VM, which is what Lume provides.

[fishtacos]

I wonder what the additional layer of virtualization changes with respect to this in a project like this one: https://github.com/dockur/macos

The unattended setup is a large improvement, which also begs the question: Mac OS doesn't have an unattended.xml alternative for its installer?

[jamescampbell]

If you run say ollama in docker vs native you lose MPS (metal core like the way CUDA works but Mac) which is really a deal breaker to do any AI work via docker for doing things with local models, which is my use case to have a full fast VM inside my mac.