• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Docker and Podman can’t run Windows VMs by themselves. These containers use QEMU, so it’s essentially a pre-made setup for what you already had.

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      2 months ago

      That’s a shame. Still very cool and much tidier than doing it directly but I thought you could actually pull windows:latest now and get going.

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        That will unfortunately never be a thing. They could theoretically do a “Docker machine” like setup to support actual Windows containers, but there’s probably not enough interest in that.