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Docker for Windows 17.11 with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

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Re: Docker for Windows 17.11 with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 25, 2017, 6:14 PM UTC

Dolores12 wrote: post #4

carlsborg wrote: post #2

Docker for Windows already runs Linux containers. This is an update: "The setup for running Linux containers with LCOW is a lot simpler than the previous architecture where a Hyper-V Linux VM runs a Linux Docker daemon, along with all your containers. With LCOW, the Docker daemon runs as a Windows process (same as when running Docker Windows containers), and every time you start a Linux container Docker launches a mi…

any idea what host windows OS are supported? I suppose only those with hyper-v.

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Re: Docker for Windows 17.11 with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

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Post by jstarks » Sat, Nov 25, 2017, 7:26 PM UTC

hungerstrike wrote: post #20

jstarks wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not quite. It doesn’t use the existing Hyper-V management stack, but it does use the Hyper-V hypervisor and (trimmed down) virtual device stack.

Will the Hyper-V features need to be installed or will it be installed automatically? I'm just curious because sometimes it messes with your video card driver.

You’ll have to enable Hyper-V. If you’re having video card issues with Hyper-V + Windows 10 you can email me and we can try to figure out what’s going on.

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