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Thanks for exposing me to ThinApp and the rest. I took a quick look, these are Microsoft based technologies designed to run Windows apps, however conceptually I

by tra3 11y ago

Thanks for exposing me to ThinApp and the rest. I took a quick look, these are Microsoft based technologies designed to run Windows apps, however conceptually I don't see much difference. Docker is a containerization standard that relies on various Linux capabilities to isolate application runtimes (or containers if you will). On Mac and Linux it used to be achieved by running a small Linux VM in VirtualBox, but looks like this release has brought xhyve on, which is supposed to have an even smaller foot print. HTH.

wslh 11y ago
When I search for xhyve it returns a project for OS X, it would be interesting to know the specific Windows technologies also.
- michaK 11y ago
  Docker for Windows relies on Hyper-V
- JonathonW 11y ago
  As mentioned in the linked blog post, they're using Hyper-V as their hypervisor on Windows (it's a direct counterpart to xhyve on OSX, except entirely built into the OS). The Docker for Mac and Windows beta does not use VirtualBox on either platform.
  - wslh 11y ago
    My original question was if you need to run a separate VM for every Docker configuration or you can run different application versions at the same time. For example, running Outlook 2010, 2013, and 2016 side by side.
    - tra3 11y ago
      You can run multiple containers on a single host (VM).
  - erichocean 11y ago
    > it's a direct counterpart to xhyve on OSX, except entirely built into the OS xhyve on Mac OS X is a very thin wrapper around Hypervisor.framework which itself is "entirely built into the OS".
bettyjunod 11y ago
ThinApp is really about packaging existing Windows desktop apps with the appropriate OS bits that the application needs. Then you can run that "thinapped app" on a different version of Windows or from a USB drive. Considered app level virtualization. #1 use case was to run IE6 based apps on newer Windows OS.

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Thanks for exposing me to ThinApp and the rest. I took a quick look, these are Microsoft based technologies designed to run Windows apps, however conceptually I

by tra3 11y ago

wslh 11y ago
When I search for xhyve it returns a project for OS X, it would be interesting to know the specific Windows technologies also.
- michaK 11y ago
  Docker for Windows relies on Hyper-V
- JonathonW 11y ago
  As mentioned in the linked blog post, they're using Hyper-V as their hypervisor on Windows (it's a direct counterpart to xhyve on OSX, except entirely built into the OS). The Docker for Mac and Windows beta does not use VirtualBox on either platform.
  - wslh 11y ago
    My original question was if you need to run a separate VM for every Docker configuration or you can run different application versions at the same time. For example, running Outlook 2010, 2013, and 2016 side by side.
    - tra3 11y ago
      You can run multiple containers on a single host (VM).
  - erichocean 11y ago
    > it's a direct counterpart to xhyve on OSX, except entirely built into the OS xhyve on Mac OS X is a very thin wrapper around Hypervisor.framework which itself is "entirely built into the OS".
bettyjunod 11y ago
ThinApp is really about packaging existing Windows desktop apps with the appropriate OS bits that the application needs. Then you can run that "thinapped app" on a different version of Windows or from a USB drive. Considered app level virtualization. #1 use case was to run IE6 based apps on newer Windows OS.