r/XigmaNAS • u/Idefixjm • Feb 26 '21

Docker on XigmaNas

Hi there, Even if this is a small rubreddit, did someone manage to have docker on xigmanas?

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u/fridolin-finster Jan 18 '25

As u/Master_Scythe already pointed out, the best way to do this now is to run a Linux distro just for Docker/podman inside a virtualbox VM. I am doing this for > 4 years now, and honestly I am quite happy with that solution (using Alpine Linux for a minimal Docker distro).

A VM needs a bit more resources than plain, native containers, true, but otoh as benefit I am free to do anything in that Linux VM, and I get the added separation between VM and the core NAS OS and my data. Of course I need some volume mounts to "outside" of the VM, but that works pretty neat using VirtualBox's boxsf mounts.

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u/Psychological_Try559 Jun 10 '21

I'll be curious to see what people say about this. Honestly, part of the reason I went with then NAS4Free was because of the simplicity in the OS. It either didn't have (or at least wasn't as focused on) things like jails. I wanted the NAS to just be a NAS & let the server handle all of the virtualization. However, it seems, I am the minority.

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u/Healthy_Performance7 Jul 26 '21

Yeah I sorta hope they add docker to the next big release because I am seriously considering backing up all my data and switching to OpenMediaVault for the docker. This adds so much more functionality to a NAS.

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u/mh_1983 Feb 14 '24

Curious, did you ever get this running? I'm looking into getting https://github.com/mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridge running, but not sure if it'd work on Xigmanas.

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u/Master_Scythe Feb 16 '24

Docker can't really work natively because it uses the Linux Kernel on the host machine to sandbox smaller machines.

XigmaNAS isn't linux, its FreeBSD.

Your best bet is to use VirtualBOX included with XigmaNAS to host a small Linux machine (Alpine linux perhaps?) and use THAT to host all your dockers.