[skrowl]

Will this work on Windows Home editions (that ship on almost every laptop you buy at MicroCenter / Best Buy / etc) or will it require Pro versions because it has some underlying dependency on Hyper-V?

[friism]

You can install the free Windows Server 2016 evaluation version in VirtualBox (which should run fine on Home). Download here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-...

[sailingparrot]

On Windows 10 you need hyper-v to run windows container. So only pro and enterprise.

On Windows Server 2016, you can choose between hyper-v container or "native" container, but this is only possible thanks to a new architecture that is not present in W10 (hence why you need Hyper-V).

[NetStrikeForce]

I guess the "for Windows Server 2016" part answers the question :) however you might be asking about Docker for Windows, which seems to be a different thing?

[skrowl]

Did you even read the article before you posted your snotty retort?

> The kernel containerization features are available in all versions of Windows Server 2016, and are also on --> Windows 10 systems with the Anniversary Update <--, and the Windows-native Docker daemon runs on both Windows Server 2016 and --> Windows 10 <-- (although only containers based on Windows Server build and run on Windows 10).

[NetStrikeForce]

No, I didn't.

However, it wasn't my intention to come across as snotty - I thought you might just missed the title, which isn't something unheard of :-)

I'm sorry if you felt I had a conceited attitude, that's not how I behave.

[justincormack]

Docker for Windows also runs Windows containers now (in the beta channel). But it requires Windows 10 Pro, as do Windows containers.