Open CorbanR opened 5 years ago
I'm all for adding documentation for alternatives, but just as a note the steps in #940 were done using the free "evaluation" copy of Fusion 🙂
You eventually have to buy Fusion if you want to continue to use it yes? The scope of this particular issue is to document a fully free and open source alternative local dev setup.
It's possible to continue cycling the Fusion trial in perpetuity, but it's certainly not an ideal setup. I think this issue is really valuable and definitely didn't mean to suggest otherwise. I just wanted to point out that if "free" is the main qualifier, it's possible to achieve that with Fusion. That being said, not relying on a loophole in a trial version of a paid, closed source product definitely sounds like a better path forward 😄
I think the free&open dev setup is probably QEMU-based. If anyone wants to contribute instructions for that it would be great.
@raduweiss I recently was able to run with VirtualBox in MacOS. Shall I put something together to tell how to run it and may be we can see if that could be added as a doc? I also used vagrant
to manage the VM
Yeah, that would be useful. Feel free to open a PR against https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/master/docs/dev-machine-setup.md .
Okay! 😄
Some of the engineers at WW are using Vagrant (and Virtualbox) to build a Linux machine for running Firecracker when using MacOS.
@jmickey - your vagrant work could be adapted to help with this issues. wdyt?
We are open to further contribution to update the documentation here if anyone has an alternative.
Some great documentation has been added via https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/940. However the current documentation is referencing paid software (such as VMware). It would be nice to figure out an alternative free option when setting up local dev.