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by nickstinemates 4512 days ago
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Yes, I'd love to, but what's the right place to start? I'm thinking Windows would need kernel modifications to make something like docker even possible on the platform.
We building a more pluggable Docker for 1.0. The execution engine and a bunch of the components will be pluggable via API. You can then pop in an execution engine that runs on Windows and get the benefits of Docker.
> I'm thinking Windows would need kernel modifications to make something like docker even possible on the platform

If this is the case, then are we basically SOL with regard to docker on Windows? Unless Microsoft take it upon themselves to make that compatibility happen.

There is existing software such as Parallels, Sandboxie, or iCore Virtual Accounts which do something like container virtualization on Windows, so it should be possible. I'm not really sure how they operate under the hood however.