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by notpushkin 368 days ago
Windows can do “true” containers, too. These containers won’t run Linux images, though.
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dijit 368 days ago
Can it? As far as I understood windows containers required Hyper-V and the images themselves seem to contain an NT kernel.

Not that it helps them run on any other Windows OS other than the version they were built on, it seems.

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noisem4ker 368 days ago
Source?

The following piece of documentation disagrees:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont...

> Containers build on top of the host operating system's kernel (...), and contain only apps and some lightweight operating system APIs and services that run in user mode

> You can increase the security by using Hyper-V isolation mode to isolate each container in a lightweight VM

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pjmlp 367 days ago
Yes, it is based on Windows Jobs API.

Additionally you can decide if the images contain the kernel, or not.

There is nothing in OS containers that specifies the golden rule how the kernel sharing takes place.

Remember containers predate Linux.

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