[mdaniel]

> It's almost as if Docker has to start and run in a VM on non-Linux systems.

Just as an FYI, that's no longer true for both macOS (xhyve) and Windows (unknown underlying tech, but compiling and running dockerd behaved reasonably with the exception that one could only run Windows docker images). In fact, IIRC, even Docker for Mac uses xhyve, so only docker-machine folks use the VM-based solution

[GordonS]

Realistically, it is still true on Windows - unless your containers don't need chmod, chown or any of the other rather fundamental syscalls that are still not supported under LCOW