[throwaway1979]

So this is like boot2docker ... on Windows? You have a VM and you have containers inside it. This is not the same as containers on baremetal. But that is fine .. my confusion is the OS inside the VM. Is that Linux or Windows? Normally, I can run Ubuntu and Centos-based containers on my box. Can I run these as Hyper V containers? What about dot net? Can that be containerized.

[lawl]

No. When you talk about containers, you talk about operating system level virtualization[0]. This means you have one kernel, with multiple user spaces. You can run a CentOS container on Ubuntu because both use a Linux Kernel. What will actually happen is that CentOS will use your already booted Ubuntu Kernel.

So unless Windows switches to a Linux Kernel or vice versa you will never be able to run one as a container on the other.

You can however do that with Virtual Machines. But installing a stripped down version of windows in a virtual machine does not make it a container, it makes it marketing bullshit.

"Containers on baremetal" and containerizing dot net are thus a bit silly concepts since .NET has nothing to do with the operating system and you can't run a container on "bare metal" whatever you might mean by that.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtuali...

[justincormack]

You might be able to run Windows containers under Wine....