Reply to post: Re: Only run Linux containers on Linux?

The Linux cloud swap that spells trouble for Microsoft and VMware

Liam Proven Silver badge

Re: Only run Linux containers on Linux?

Docker on Mac OS X and Windows runs a VM containing a minimal copy of Alpine Linux -- then your containers are started under that.

There are also Windows Server Containers, which contain Windows sessions, but can be managed with Docker commands and scripts -- but they can only contain Windows binaries. They're not compatible with Docker Linux containers.

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