What are Linux Machines, exactly?

[Sangeppato]

First of all, @kdrag0n big kudos for OrbStack: I'm really amazed at how well it's working and at how polished it is. Really impressive job!

I just have a quick question regarding Linux Machines: what are they, exactly? Looking at the logs, it looks to me that they are some kind of privileged Docker containers, is this the case? And are you using some custom images hosted somewhere to create them?
I apologize if this is reported somewhere in the docs, I didn't find it..

[kdrag0n]

They're special privileged system containers (not Docker though). Images are hosted by Canonical.

[Sangeppato]

Thank you! So they run using LXC?

[kdrag0n]

LXC is an implementation detail that will likely change in the future, but for now: yes. Don't make any assumptions about it though.

[Sangeppato]

Got it, thank you!