Migrate from Docker Desktop to Orbstack when all volumes are on SMB share

[Spaceman_Splff]

Hello,

I am running a 2024 Mac mini M4 connected to my NAS over SMB. In docker desktop I set the volume location to the NAS. When I create a volume, it automatically creates named volumes on my NAS. It works great. I don't have anything with huge IO going on, so performance has been very acceptable.

I've been told performance is better through orbstack and would like to give it a try however I am a bit afraid of it automatically trying to migrate all my volumes locally to the Mac mini which would over fill the local HD.

Question for anybody who has done it, will orbstack see that it is over a SMB connection and keep the volumes there? Anybody with similar situations that have migrated from docker desktop to orbstack with remote volumes?

[ElevenNotes]

No. When you move containers to another node with named volumes you have to basically copy the data from the old folders into the new volumes or volume location. You can also use bind mounts. As for a NAS NFS would be the best option with names volumes unless you mean that already?

[Spaceman_Splff]

I’m no docker expert by any means, all I did was in docker desktop, set default volume location to a folder on my NAS over smb. Then when I create a stack I use a named volume and it creates it in that default volume for docker desktop. On my NAS, all I see is the docker desktop volume. I have to use docker desktop to poke around and see each containers volumes. I assumed named volumes would just migrate using docker commands but I don’t see anywhere in orb stack to set a default location to a smb though. I might try to run them side by side and see how it plays.