[Cialug] Windows containers

[Andrew Denner]

To confirm Scott's message Windows docker containers need to be run on
windows hosts. Technically linux containers are also run on linux hosts as
well, to make them work on linux you are actually running a very thin
version of linux on a vm.

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 1:23 PM Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> No, it looks like that is still not possible:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42158596/can-windows-containers-be-hosted-on-linux
>
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:28 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 15 May 2020, Scott Yates wrote:
> >
> > > I did not think you could run a windows docker container on a linux
> > host.I thought you had to VM a whole windows box.  Has that changed?
> > >
> > My assumption was that a container adhering to the Docker standard would
> > run on any Docker host, .. guess I'll find out.
> >
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