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Wait, Docker and Podman can create Windows VMs?
I had winapps setup using QEMU quite a while ago but this seems like a much tidier setup.
Docker and Podman can't run Windows VMs by themselves. These containers use QEMU, so it's essentially a pre-made setup for what you already had.
That's a shame. Still very cool and much tidier than doing it directly but I thought you could actually pull windows:latest now and get going.
That will unfortunately never be a thing. They could theoretically do a "Docker machine" like setup to support actual Windows containers, but there's probably not enough interest in that.
No, it's not a thing, it's literally what I described earlier - QEMU in a Docker container. That's why the Dockerfile imports files from QEMU, and why the entrypoint starts the VM using QEMU. The project this whole thread is about uses
dockur/windowsas the base.It will never be a thing.
I am running it on Docker. :)
https://github.com/dockur/windows
Yeah, had to dive in myself.
The answer is no, they can’t. You need to pass
/dev/kvmand/dev/net/tunin a composefile for a reason.There’s no „windows in docker”, but rather „handy windows vm orchestrator with nice UI in a container”. A bit of a mouthful.