I think you are confusing containers and VMs. Containers use the kernel from the hosting machine, so if you want to use a container on a non-native host, you ha

I think you are confusing containers and VMs. Containers use the kernel from the hosting machine, so if you want to use a container on a non-native host, you have to use a VM. VM technology is advanced enough that you can do development on a non-native platform, but it won't be quite as smooth, and adding containers on does complicate things quite a bit, because you now have a container running in a VM running on the native platform, having to deal with three layers of networking etc...