Orka Engine 3.0 FAQs
| Topic | FAQ | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Licensing | What platforms does the product support? | Orka is designed to run on Apple Mac machines, providing virtualization technology that is fully supported on both Intel and Apple Silicon-based machines. |
| Licensing | How is Orka licensed? | Licensing for Orka is node-based, meaning the license is tied to the number of nodes deployed with the software. When choosing to host with MacStadium, cluster management and orchestration software is included; offering users a comprehensive solution. |
| Supported Devices | What kind of virtualized devices are supported, for example, GPU or Sound? | Orka Engine supports access to GPUs, however, audio support currently has a limited capacity. |
| Supported Devices | Is a USB storage device access supported? | USB devices are only passthrough at this time, although Apple has introduced some beta functionality: USB Devices | Apple Developer Documentation. |
| Supported Devices | What are the network modes supported by Orka Engine? | Currently, Orka Engine only supports NAT, however, the framework also supports bridge and raw sockets. |
| Security | How does Orka Engine provide network isolation between VMs and the host machine? | Users must determine if this is needed and implement it themselves. MacStadium does not provide any type of network isolation. |
| Security | Does MacStadium maintain any agents inside the VM, for direct access to the VM by passing the SSH? | No. |
| Networking | What is the overhead of device implementation for networks and file I/O? | MacStadium uses the Apple Hypervisor API and incurs overhead / limitations per that framework. |
| Images | Does Orka Engine support image layering when an image is cloned and added to the layer on top of it? | Orka Engine allows users to clone a VM to use as the base of another VM, however, that is not the same as layering a Docker image. |
| Images | Does Orka Engine support layer sharing on the host? For example, if there are 10 images with the same base layer, then would they all share the disk space occupied but this base layer? | Orka Desktop takes advantage of APFS clones, which is a feature specific to macOS systems. When an image is created from a VM, only diff data for the VM is written to the disk. VM images are compressed when stored in an OCI registry, which ensures that sparseness is preserved. However, images are not compressed once pulled to the host. |
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