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Yes for windows and Mac it runs a Linux VM. On windows it can also use WSL2 as the linux vm. Docker-engine is the daemon built by docker. Podman is an openso

Yes for windows and Mac it runs a Linux VM. On windows it can also use WSL2 as the linux vm. Docker-engine is the daemon built by docker. Podman is an opensource work a like. Docker-engine doesn't support running as a user other than root. Podman does. This announcement says minikube will work with Podman running as not root.

chrisjc 4y ago
Thanks for clearing that up. I remember hearing that development of docker-engine was ceasing, but could obviously live on as it was forked. I guess rootless is some of the work that Docker (company) wanted to keep proprietary and out of this open-source project. Really quite a shame, although understandable from a commercial perspective. Assuming that these improvements are finding their way back into an open-source project, I'm glad to hear about this work from minikube and Podman.
- AkihiroSuda 4y ago
  > I guess rootless is some of the work that Docker (company) wanted to keep proprietary and out of this open-source project. Rootless mode for Docker is completely FLOSS, and its main contributor (me) has even never worked for Docker (company). https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/contrib/dockerd-rootless.sh https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/contrib/dockerd-roo... https://github.com/rootless-containers https://github.com/rootless-containers
AkihiroSuda 4y ago
> Docker-engine doesn't support running as a user other than root. Podman does. Docker engine does.