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by grumblez 2608 days ago
Finally. Won't need to run a VM for Docker anymore
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phalangion 2608 days ago
Does that mean that Docker for Windows will no longer require Hyper-V? And therefore will be available for Windows home editions?
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decafbad 2608 days ago
Yes, it looks so. They will add a few syscalls that Docker needs to WSL and we will use it on Home Edition.
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rtempaccount1 2608 days ago
It'll be interesting to see details here, which I guess will come out over the next couple of days.

They could either go the syscall emulation route (as in current WSL), or possibly the "thin hypervisor" route, the fact they're talking kernel versions makes me think that may be what they're planning...

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larrybud 2607 days ago
I suspect it's the "thin hypervisor", aka LCOW + hyperv isolation. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/premier-developer/running-doc...

(I work at Microsoft but have no inside knowledge on this; just speculating.)

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rtempaccount1 2607 days ago
Just saw there's some more technical details here https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/shipping-a-linux-....

Whilst it doesn't explicitly mention Virtual Machines or Hypervisors, I'd read this as making use of that kind of technology with some additional tech. for interop with Windows to the level of WSL currently.

EDIT: and here's the confirmation https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/ it's a VM

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nickjj 2608 days ago
Indeed.

I've been running WSL for over a year with Docker for Windows and while the experience feels native to WSL (WSL has no problem running the Docker CLI and connecting to Docker for Windows) it'll be a very nice perk to just apt install Docker in WSL and not deal with DfW.

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