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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon ehough

macos version

Open blipspings opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

i'm sure there's far more to this than i can comprehend, but i assume there will never be a macos (or windows, for that matter) version of docker headful kodi, will there?

which stinks, because this would be perfect for my needs.

blipspings avatar Jul 12 '18 18:07 blipspings

Thanks for your question. Could you tell us a little more about your use case? Are you looking to run this container on a dedicated HTPC running macOS? or Windows?

Right now we rely heavily (entirely, really) on x11docker, which only works with Linux. So for the moment, you're indeed out of luck. But creating a "headful" Kodi image that works on non-Linux isn't out of the question; both Docker and Kodi run on macOS and Windows..

ehough avatar Jul 13 '18 06:07 ehough

Currently I do some development to run x11docker on Windows within MSYS2 and WSL with X server VcXsrv. It is in an early experimental stage, but basically it works. See https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker/issues/55.

Though, I would not expect too much. I may get sound working with pulseaudio, but I doubt that hardware acceleration will be possible. kodi without GPU acceleration is probably nothing to recommend.

For test runs on Windows I use a Virtualbox image for developers that can be downloaded for free. Apple does not provide a free developer image, so I won't develop for MacOS. Though, I think porting x11docker for Mac would be rather easy if someone gives it a try.

Currently I'd rather recommend to set up a Linux VM on Windows and Mac to run docker-kodi image with x11docker. (But then it makes more sense to use a Linux VM with kodi installed directly into it.)

A thread about docker on XQuartz on Mac with pulseaudio: https://forums.docker.com/t/how-to-run-gui-apps-in-containiers-in-osx-docker-for-mac/17797

mviereck avatar Jul 13 '18 10:07 mviereck

x11docker 5.0.0 runs on Windows now. It is supposed to support hardware acceleration with --gpu and sound with --pulseaudio.

It should be possible now to run docker-kodi on windows.

I would not expect a great performance, but if someone wants to give it a try, I would appreciate the feedback.

mviereck avatar Aug 26 '18 10:08 mviereck