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Comment by notpushkin

6 months ago

Windows can do “true” containers, too. These containers won’t run Linux images, though.

Can it? As far as I understood windows containers required Hyper-V and the images themselves seem to contain an NT kernel.

Not that it helps them run on any other Windows OS other than the version they were built on, it seems.

  • Yes, it is based on Windows Jobs API.

    Additionally you can decide if the images contain the kernel, or not.

    There is nothing in OS containers that specifies the golden rule how the kernel sharing takes place.

    Remember containers predate Linux.