Getting Started with Docker for Windows

Docker (on Linux): years of unstable releases, breaking changes and weird issues you&#x27;ll only find out in production.<p>Now available for windows! :D<p>On the bright side. Maybe that will make finding the perfect combination (i.e. one that doesn&#x27;t crash) of OS + kernel + docker version + filesystem easier because there is limited diversity on Windows.

I&#x27;m somewhat confused. So I&#x27;ve given it an install but I was presuming that there&#x27;s a Linux Kernel being virtual machined in the background.<p>Isn&#x27;t that why it requires Hyper-V?<p>There&#x27;s reference in the instructions that changing the IPs will require the VM to be rebooted from what I can tell as well.

But not the home edition or whatever the OEM edition is called these days. This is another one of those aggravating things pushing me towards linux&#x2F;oss.

It is sad to say, but this is useless. If you enable Hyper-V you can&#x27;t use VirtualBox or VMWare Workstation. You can&#x27;t also run Android emulator...

The title says &quot;without VMs&quot; but Docker for windows requires Hyper-V. Surely there is a VM running in the background, isn&#x27;t there?

Microsoft link <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;virtualization&#x2F;windowscontainers&#x2F;quick_start&#x2F;quick_start_windows_10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;virtualization&#x2F;windowsconta...</a>

If you have windows &quot;Pro&quot;.... Which most people won&#x27;t have.

HN discussion is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12581404" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12581404</a>

My problem is that its either Docker or Vmware Workstation - i kind of need both and I don&#x27;t want to have to reboot everytime. But it looks interesting.

An Pay 180$ for the pro version that supports hyper-v... Then better stay at Linux ... Or come to...