Support for WIndows Containers

Docker Desktop
1

I’m expecting the --isolation=hyperv parameter to work with docker run as in
docker run --isolation=hyperv --rm microsoft/sample-dotnet

The following error is displayed instead
"hyperv" - linux only supports ‘default’

Steps to reproduce the behavior

  1. follow steps 3 and 4 form this link https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/quick_start/quick_start_windows_server. I know the issue is due to the version of the engine (1.12.0-rc4-beta19 build: 5465) installed with docker for windows does not support the command
2

Hi

this is expected as the Docker for Windows application is currently only supporting running Linux containers on Windows. We are working on supporting Windows containers in the future.

Rolf

3

With Windows 10 Anniversary update on August 2 (yesterday) Windows container are supported using Hyper-V already. Can you give some insight as what would be different in underlying mechanism/architecture when Docker for Windows provide the support for Windows container as you mentioned?

4

You can get an idea of what the setup will be like here: Linux and Windows Images Side by Side