Well, I try not to use Docker too much, but for compatibility testing, it is sure nice to have a QEMU like thing that I can bring up and down. UTM is a nice tool for this that uses the hypervisor stack for graphical applications.
Quick notes, when you download the Ubuntu 22.04 images, it isn’t clear what the passwords are, but they are “ubuntu” and “debian” for those respective images.
The other tool I’ve use is Lima which is a virtual machine system and Colima which adds docker support on top. This great for quick command line stuff, so you can do a limactl start and then talk to the Linux VM with lima ls and then you can run docker inside it with lima nerdctl run hello-world. You can pick images to run too, so start let’s you pick debian as an example. but if you just want a full command line then lima bash is your friend. Or limactl shell default does the same thing
The later is nice because it’s fast and command line only
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