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So there are windowsservercore containers. Are they real windows? Can I run them also from Linux?

josteink 11y ago
Containers are not VMs despite often being used as such. Windows will not run Linux-containers and Windows-containers will not run on Linux, just like the same restriction applies the other way around. A container typically runs with the same kernel as the host, and therefore is restricted to be the same type of operating-system.
- therealmarv 11y ago
  Thanks! I'm really curious what a Windows container is capable of. Many Windows programs are dependent on GUIs. I can imagine that Windows containers are a great testing platform. Let's see what else is possible.
  - ossreality 11y ago
    They're for headless services...
  - dragontamer 11y ago
    Almost the entirety of ASP.NET and Windows Web Programming can be run headlessly. StackOverflow is entirely built on top of Windows and .NET. Its not necessarily an inefficient platform, despite Window's reputation.
- aikah 11y ago
  Isn't it supposed to work with Docker ? I thought Docker was *nix only ?
  - Sanddancer 11y ago
    Docker isn't *nix only, MS and Docker have ported it to Windows 10 and Server 2016. You're able to use the same API between the various Docker hosts, but the binary compatibility is much the same as that between Linux and OS X versions of Docker.
ossreality 11y ago
What the hell do people not understand about containers?! They are not virtualization. They're just regular damn processes running on the kernel. So no, of course not.
darkr 11y ago
> So there are windowsservercore containers. Are they real windows? "Server Core is a minimal server installation option for computers running on the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. Server Core provides a low-maintenance environment capable of providing core server roles" Basically server core is stripped down version of windows without a GUI[1] that will run most server roles, Powershell etc. 1. Well it kind of has a GUI, but one that is only capable of running cmd.exe and little else.

Containers are not VMs despite often being used as such. Windows will not run Linux-containers and Windows-containers will not run on Linux, just like the same restriction applies the other way around. A container typically runs with the same kernel as the host, and therefore is restricted to be the same type of operating-system.

therealmarv 11y ago
Thanks! I'm really curious what a Windows container is capable of. Many Windows programs are dependent on GUIs. I can imagine that Windows containers are a great testing platform. Let's see what else is possible.
- ossreality 11y ago
  They're for headless services...
- dragontamer 11y ago
  Almost the entirety of ASP.NET and Windows Web Programming can be run headlessly. StackOverflow is entirely built on top of Windows and .NET. Its not necessarily an inefficient platform, despite Window's reputation.
aikah 11y ago
Isn't it supposed to work with Docker ? I thought Docker was *nix only ?
- Sanddancer 11y ago
  Docker isn't *nix only, MS and Docker have ported it to Windows 10 and Server 2016. You're able to use the same API between the various Docker hosts, but the binary compatibility is much the same as that between Linux and OS X versions of Docker.

ossreality 11y ago

What the hell do people not understand about containers?! They are not virtualization. They're just regular damn processes running on the kernel. So no, of course not.

darkr 11y ago

> So there are windowsservercore containers. Are they real windows? "Server Core is a minimal server installation option for computers running on the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. Server Core provides a low-maintenance environment capable of providing core server roles" Basically server core is stripped down version of windows without a GUI[1] that will run most server roles, Powershell etc. 1. Well it kind of has a GUI, but one that is only capable of running cmd.exe and little else.