Docker doesn&#x27;t and hasn&#x27;t used LXC for a long time. It uses libcontainer, which is their own implementation of a container runtime. Even when Docker did use LXC, the Docker daemon was required for management. The Docker daemon only runs on GNU&#x2F;Linux and Windows, so there is no sane definition of &quot;native&quot; where the statement &quot;Docker runs natively on OS X&quot; is correct.