> With devcontainer I think VSCode still runs directly on my machine but connects to the container, so this is nto a solution for me, I need a real VM. why? I

> With devcontainer I think VSCode still runs directly on my machine but connects to the container, so this is nto a solution for me, I need a real VM. why? I don't understand why you need a real VM here for a dev environment, you don't. A docker file-based dev container will work on your machine and then work just the same with dockerfile deployed wherever in the cloud or on a server. see : https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/create-dev-container#_additional-dev-container-scenarios https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/create-dev-... > Work with a container deployed application defined by an image, Dockerfile, or Docker Compose.