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by mh-cx 3611 days ago
> No, on windows you still have to run a Linux vm which the containers will run inside.

I don't think, that's correct. To me that's the whole point of having a native Windows / Mac version of docker. From their feature list:

> Faster and more reliable – native development environment using hypervisors built into each operating system. (No more VirtualBox!)
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drdaeman 3611 days ago
No, GP got it right.

The quoted part is that instead of VirtualBox one can use Hyper-V. In either case, it's handled by docker-machine which runs a GNU/Linux VM with Docker (host) tools installed, and containers are ran on that VM.

I would be surprised if there aren't plans to support WSL (to run Linux-targetting binaries on Windows "natively", thus have "native" Docker containers) but don't think that's available yet.

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