Singularity: Support Singularity on Mac?

Created on 4 Jul 2016 · 9Comments · Source: hpcng/singularity

Is this possible?

https://github.com/mist64/xhyve

Enhancement help wanted

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gmkurtzer

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Are you still interested in this? I got xhyve working on my mac, and singularity seems to work fine on it too.

nl384 on 14 Jul 2016

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Are you still interested in this? I got xhyve working on my mac, and singularity seems to work fine on it too.

nl384 on 14 Jul 2016

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@nl384 +1

aculich on 14 Jul 2016

Whaaaaahhhhh? Ok, yes. Very interested! Do you have an idea on how to incorporate Xhyve directly into Singularity?

gmkurtzer on 14 Jul 2016

Well I ran an Ubuntu image on my mac using Xhyve by following the instructions I found here : http://www.pagetable.com/?p=831 . And then I installed Singularity. I was able to create, bootstrap and shell into an Ubuntu image, so it seems to work fine. However, I'm still not very familiar with Xhyve and not exactly sure on how it would be directly incorporated.

nl384 on 14 Jul 2016

@nl384 We should circle back on this when you have time and see if we can spin out a SingularityWare project based on Xhyve and native Mac support.

gmkurtzer on 25 Mar 2017

+1!! Would love to see Singularity on xhyve for macOS and BSD.

fmorency on 26 Oct 2018

Will Singularity Desktop for MacOS require root access for users running Docker containers after the desktop application has already been installed on the system? If so, I would love to use Singularity Desktop with students on school issued laptops.

EricEisaman on 3 Mar 2019

@EricEisaman ... No it will not require root access. The initial root requirement is currently because we're installing to /usr/local, and the singularity.conf file needs to be root owned (that core check isn't modified).