Huge thanks to Ridge for sponsoring the video! Use this link to get up to 30% off through April 1st: ridge.com/wolfgang dockur/windows by Kroese: github.com/dockur/windows CORRECTION: This will not work on Mac, only on Linux.
“Running Windows in a VM that is run by a Docker container that mounts /dev/kvm from the host, but also automates the installation for you” doesn’t really roll off the tongue
Using WSL under Windows 11 to run Docker, which is also running a container for Linux that is running a virtualisation of Windows 11 is so ridiculously cursed and I LOVE it.
It's not running in a Docker Container. It's running in a KVM backed QEMU VM that is automatically configured by a Docker script. Saves some problems with config at least.
@@WolfgangsChannel My original comment was to say that even if your host machine is firewalled you should double check that you're not exposing 3389 to networks you don't want it to be available on. I ran into that issue with an FTP container on a production machine once. Thankfully blue team found it.
You can just do 127.0.0.1:port:port instead of port:port this will only bind to 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0 Docker will ignore any and every firewall rules because that is its purpose. It directly opens ports using iptables. You can use host networking if you want a container to follow your firewall rules.
I'm surprised he somehow used KVM with a Mac, or was he remoting into the cluster with that clunky macOs ? or is it a hackintosh also running under KVM ?
Woah! This couldn't have come at a better time! I was just looking for a solution to run a DayZ server, a Windows only application, without needing to leave one of our gaming PCs on all the time. Now I just need more RAM before I can setup a VM on my Ubuntu server.
Cannot wait for the N100 build video! I’m about to build my home server/nas and I’m about to go with the industrial ASRock board. But I’m holding my horses and waiting patiently for your N100 build. Love your content, keep up the good work! ❤
I reviewed the project and I couldn't found any option for running any command in the container without using GUI. So only wine containers are still the option.
Correction: no one needs a Microsoft Account to run Windows, unless you don't care about your privacy. And that's without any reduction in functionality or support and only a negligible reduction of services.
It would be interesting to know how responsive the Windows "docker container" is without a passthrough GPU, since video acceleration would not be available and everything will be rendered via software. Currently, I have a Windows VM with GPU passthrough for my ONE use: running MS Office for work. If the docker container can run with the same responsiveness as an older machine (say, i7-6700 with its iGPU) without the need for a dedicated GPU to be passed through, that would be really great for my use case.
Did you have to install anything for your macOS to have the file /dev/kvm? Mine doesn't have, even after installing qemu, libvirt and some other software
I was just trying to solve this problem and was gonna end up using Cockpit to manage a dedicated Windows VM. I hadn’t even considered putting a VM inside of a Docker container. That’s so simple but so clever.
One of my 2024 goals is to begin using Docker for some of my tasks as a software engineer doing medical imaging research. Although this is not exactly what I need I plan to give it a test..
Internally we're going to start with setting up the container as a way to test intune and autopilot configurations, before we deploy them in production. Makes testing much easier !
I'm already using harvester to run my vm's and containers. It technically runs vm's as pods ontop of kubernetes so this may not be for me, but I have an idea which I can use this project for, deploying cms windows displays. Since the player will be always be in fullscreen, I can simply use any broswer, connect with ip address and have the content displayed on the tv or media screen device. Thanks very much for the video.
Hello. Thank you for the video, it is really instructive. This is the first video from you I watch, so excuse me if you have already answered my questions in previous videos. I am *really* new into docker, in fact, I am barely documenting on the subject because I recently had the 'idea' of running Office 365 in Docker (knowing nothing about it before hand) instead of my MacOS Parallels Desktop VM which I do since 2010 when I switched from Windows. 1. What would be the advantages of the change, and would be the trade-offs? 2. Since I know *nothing* about Docker except for a couple of videos I have watched about it, would you recommend me to change my VM to Docker? (Knowing I need to use Office 365 for developing macros, Excel, Power Query and other heavy Office add-ins in my day-to-day work) 3. Do you have or do you have links to videos where I can learn Docker from scratch? Thanks!
Was watching this video in sleepy mode this morning. Great stuff! Even put some smiles on my face and made me laugh! Well done! :) Ive seen all the macOS buttons and was ready to undust my MacBook...but reading your CORRECTION now in the comments. NOT on Mac. Too bad. ^^ Anyway, appreciated!
I needed 1 year ago Windows for a game. But I didn‘t want to dualboot. So I setup a VM with libvirt and then did a single-gpu-passthrough. I needed a bit to get it working, because I had a Problem, that was really rare, there was only one open thread that you could find and that was on a Proxmox forum. Without the help of a other person, that found that, I might never get it to work. But with the time I didn‘t used the VM anymore and because I really often switch my Linux Distro, I started to not set it up again and nowadays I don’t have a use case for any VM‘s
Pretty cool! Wouldn’t you lose the best perk of Docker Containers tho? Talking about the fact that they use the same kernel as the host. This seems to me like it only adds an additional, superfluous layer of abstraction
What I would like to do is just run my already installed windows 11(system is dual boot) through Linux so I dont have to restart for apps that STILL wont run on Linux.
I ended in separate computer with windows. As a bonus I can play my favourite windows only games. I have two computers plugged in to the same monitor, use logitech mouse paired with two usb dongles and a keyboard which I switch usb / bluetooth. I use bluetooth with linux, usb with windows.
@@user-fk2xg8nq6r what's your opinion on the "feels"? Does it laggy / unresponsive at some point? Btw, what's the maximum screen resolution you are able to set in the windows setting?
@Wolfgang's Channel : (a bit off topic here) Would it be an idea to test a range of UPS devices for functionality and power consumption? Every home lab needs a UPS of some sort, and idle power consumption varies a lot between models.. Would be nice to see a shoot out?
I can already play minesweeper on Linux with KMines or winemine, and play pinball with the open source SDL version (which I believe is reverse-engineered from winxp). I'm using my Windows VM for compiling C++ code for Windows with MSVC, and occasionally for some light 3D gaming. This would work for the compilation part, even better than a persistent VM.
work for gaming? i have a t14 gen 2 i5 1135g7, i reed on some forum that this cpu doesn't have GVT-d this use SR-IOV that you can use only with ACRN hypervisor (single iGPU passthrough) arch linux 8gb ram
Hello...Used in Ubuntu...when you finish using Windows 11 (by default)...what is the path to eliminate the Used and Unnecessary Space by Windows 11 in the Download of the .iso and in the Decompression of the .iso ...Thank you 😊
This is a pretty cool idea. My preference would be a win 11 ghost version. I typically do proxmox -> win11 ghost Because running vanillla windows iso is absolutely terrible. I also use templates for this so you only do it once really (might not work for your use case)
Serious technical people look askance when I tell them that containerised Windows is a mere parlour trick. Boss: "Yes but can you look at it please? Our managed service provider has a great new product" Me: "But we're already fully bought into VMware" Boss: "Exactly, and we got gifted all these Tanzu licences" Me: "Errr...." *goes back to Helldivers 2*
Wow seems very useful to me since I yearly need an old Windows program to handle my taxes. It's a hassle every year but this docker might be the solution for running windows 15 minutes yearly.
How can you use this to run script serverless, with docker? Like running an azure function app (which are ran in Linux) with a windows docker image? Is it even possible?
I need it to code in C# for windows from my MacBook m1 pro. I was evaluating parallels 19... Do you think I can use this one instead? 🤔 I wonder the difference in CPU/RAM % ... Maybe you can make a comparison
There's also quickemu, which IMO seems better at this for a workstation PC. This project however may make more sense if you want the VM to be reachable from outside (and just have a simple setup, no need for something like proxmox), since it comes with a webclient etc.
Just keep in mind that this isn't a real container. Windows is being virtualized by the KVM kernel driver which means it's a VM and not a container. This video is a bit misleading
Windows product keys used are in the /assets XML files, so if one has licenses, I assume they can pre-configured to "valid" ones. :) Cool idea and workaround!
Have you tried to compare this with a barebone Windows VM? I have a VM running Windows, for a few dumb apps I'm not using that often. This looks interesting, but I'd be great to know what I should expect as a impact in the performance (overhead, primary) I mean.. I already have Windows running in a QEMU KVM env., so putting that into a Debian or similar distro, just to spin up Windows inside Docker, maybe aren't that best take, if I already have Windows running... Or? That's the actual question, I guess.
does this solution avoid the problem of nested virtualization on Apple silicon chips? context: the apps I require to test on windows need wsl2+docker (on windows). at the moment (at my knowledge) is not possible to achieve this environment on any Apple silicon chip (like M1, M2 or M3) forcing me to use a separate machine with x86_64 cpu
It would not avoid it, you won’t be able to run WSL2 inside this. If you’re using VMs anyway, just use WSL1 and use the VM network to connect to a docker daemon on a Linux VM.
Is it really a container if it's just using the kvm kernel driver? It's just a VM with docker wrapper around it. I prefer to just run Qemu+KVM or VirtualBox.
Does it run in TrueNAS in k3s ? or in LXC on proxmox? Yes I am Terrible. I have myThinkPad running Arch for a while now. this is useful to have a Windows option on standby. Also my one remaining windows box will go native Linux now
I needed a CAD software for 3D printing. After looking at a ton of expensive options, I went with the much more affordable Shapr3D, nice bonus, it works on my iPad. But no Linux version, no way to run the iPad version on Linux, the windows version is a windows store app and i think it’s UWP, which wine doesn’t support, the windows version is trash anyway, lol, and my only option would be to use darling to run the Mac version, but my hopes to run complex gui software is pretty nonexistent. I could just use different software, but it’s meh that software compatibility is still an issue in 2024
I am going to try and get this running using a stack in a Portainer instance on my ProxMox Server. Should at least be educational. I have a few Windows VMs already running but this looks interesting. It may or may not be more efficient especially if I get it working with one of the tiny windows version you mention. Cheers good content. I may come back and post if I got it working.
I only spent about 45 minutes but was unsuccessful but really didn't try too hard. I need to read up on deploying stacks in Portainer. I am sure I could spin up a linux VM in proxmox then install docker then run the command and get that working but was hoping it would work easily with Portainer. If I spin up a Linux VM to get this working I might as well just spin up a windows VM. Was interesting to watch I may take another stab at it if I have some free time.
As I keep digging I fear this may not work. KVM is working on my proxmox server but I have a Debian VM running portainer and it does not have access to KVM. I am not sure how to work around this. Sorry to SPAM your comments. I was super excited as I thought I could get this to work in Portainer and it may work but I am still learning my way around and usually know just enough to get myself into trouble. Cheers on the video! I was trying to use this in a slightly different way. I kinda think of it as the movie inception.
Is it possible to install this "Windows" in a Synology NAS Docker (Container Manager)? I found it dockurr/windows in the registration tab in my Synology, but it is not possible to run it. Can you give me some tips?
I don't see why it can't be run on a Synology. It is just a container like all the other containers. The only problem you can have is that it consumes a lot of resources, and that is the reason why I am not going to run it on Synology.
@@Equality-and-LibertyI've been a bit out of the vm scene and was going to virtualbox it, this served it's purpose and there's no clean up to do after other than image and container in docker, pretty sweet
I wonder if a GH Actions workflow can be created from this, since a Python app I made won't compile to Windows properly under a workflow that uses PyInstaller running under Wine
Yes, but you'll likely want to set up a custom runner. I doubt that the free GH runners come with KVM support. You can also disable KVM acceleration, but that will make the VMs veeeeeeeery slow
Thanks to you, I installed Docker container but I was stuck on downloading Windows. Error message is below docker: unknown server OS: But I installed Docker container and version info is below Docker version 27.3.1, build ce12230 I am using Fedora though
This was pretty good. However, I could not find an environment setting that would have the container built from a local windows iso file. Is downloading every time the only way for now?
Theres an application that I can use to change the RGB lights on my keyboard but it only has windows compatibility. Would it be possible to run windows in a container, install that application in that container and then use it to change the lights on my keyboard?
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CORRECTION: This will not work on Mac, only on Linux.
It is not running in a docker container. Interesting but the title is really misleading.
“Running Windows in a VM that is run by a Docker container that mounts /dev/kvm from the host, but also automates the installation for you” doesn’t really roll off the tongue
Next step: windows distrobox guest?
Can also create a template / kvm image using packer, and just run it with kvm. Or if using kubernetes, use kubvirt to run them.
Hey Wolfgang - We sent you an email about a paid partnership. Let me know what you think.
Using WSL under Windows 11 to run Docker, which is also running a container for Linux that is running a virtualisation of Windows 11 is so ridiculously cursed and I LOVE it.
Someone stop him!
@@Demios101 no I use windows WSL too its amazing
And I thought using Wine via WSL was cursed enough, that's a whole other level 😱
yeah try runnin mac os under gwsl
It's tempting to try but I know my computer will hate me for that torture.
It's not running in a Docker Container. It's running in a KVM backed QEMU VM that is automatically configured by a Docker script. Saves some problems with config at least.
it is? lmao containers are just normal processes with some security flags
QEMU is a type-2 userland hypervisor AND a kvm virtualizer. If you set kvm: false in the environment it will run entirely in userland inside docker
It is a KVM in the guise of a docker "container".... An interesting project no doubt.
Might actually be useful aswell
then why not use vagrant
As an Unraid user I just (un)surprisingly found this image in the Apps. I'm giving it a try and thank you for sharing!
7:34 The entirety of RAM and swap being completely pegged by the VMS's
Docker tends to ignore UFW and writes to iptables, so be careful with that open 3389.
what is the worse scenario
@churchofsatan2041 you run this on an unfirewalled machine with a public IP, and then anyone can log in to your Windows container using RDP
@@WolfgangsChannel My original comment was to say that even if your host machine is firewalled you should double check that you're not exposing 3389 to networks you don't want it to be available on. I ran into that issue with an FTP container on a production machine once. Thankfully blue team found it.
You can just do 127.0.0.1:port:port instead of port:port
this will only bind to 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0
Docker will ignore any and every firewall rules because that is its purpose. It directly opens ports using iptables.
You can use host networking if you want a container to follow your firewall rules.
nftables, not iptables. iptables is deprecated and will be removed in the future.
I love that you used the same port as Proxmox, and used Proxmox as your complicated example of running a VM.
I'm surprised he somehow used KVM with a Mac, or was he remoting into the cluster with that clunky macOs ? or is it a hackintosh also running under KVM ?
@@monad_tcp Medium article "Qemu, virt-manager, and libvirt on macOS with Apple silicon M2".
Woah! This couldn't have come at a better time! I was just looking for a solution to run a DayZ server, a Windows only application, without needing to leave one of our gaming PCs on all the time.
Now I just need more RAM before I can setup a VM on my Ubuntu server.
oho day Z player here. I love that game
Cannot wait for the N100 build video! I’m about to build my home server/nas and I’m about to go with the industrial ASRock board. But I’m holding my horses and waiting patiently for your N100 build. Love your content, keep up the good work! ❤
Good news - it's coming at the end of the month :)
Missed Opportunity: Naming it "Linux Subsystem for Windows"
What an absolutely impeccable timing... I was _just_ about to set up a VM so I could update my damn mouse (love you logitrash
Why on Earth would one need to UPDATE the mouse? Security vulnerabilities? 🤣
@mikhail-plentev You're laughing, but... www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/logitech-unifying-receivers-vulnerable-to-key-injection-attacks/
@@tealplastic1234 Bug with scrolling, sometimes doesn't register when in wireless mode, super annoying
@@AQDuck, but you still need USB passthrough for it, don't you?
@@LichtTempler As he said in the video, it uses KVM so you can pass any device through
Has a lot of potential in CI/CD for testing code
I reviewed the project and I couldn't found any option for running any command in the container without using GUI. So only wine containers are still the option.
@@AlexAlex-jk2tn websocket app running on bootup which you can use for command passed by the container. done.
I don't know how you deliver such awesome quality almost every time!!!
I totally loved it!
0:34 You don't need an MS account. Just choose other and choose a domain, then it lets you sign in locally.
thanks so much for this! I've been looking for this for so long!
Wolfgang, superb video. How clever of you to know this is exactly what I was looking for.
Correction: no one needs a Microsoft Account to run Windows, unless you don't care about your privacy. And that's without any reduction in functionality or support and only a negligible reduction of services.
Now I can run heroes III again
It would be interesting to know how responsive the Windows "docker container" is without a passthrough GPU, since video acceleration would not be available and everything will be rendered via software. Currently, I have a Windows VM with GPU passthrough for my ONE use: running MS Office for work. If the docker container can run with the same responsiveness as an older machine (say, i7-6700 with its iGPU) without the need for a dedicated GPU to be passed through, that would be really great for my use case.
If you don’t need the OneDrive integration, which doesn’t work well, the Linux version of CrossOver runs Microsoft Office pretty well.
@@paradoxmoCrossover is too expensive in most countries
@@applmango sure, Wine or PlayonLinux then. Or VMware player has decent paravirtualized 3D.
Did you have to install anything for your macOS to have the file /dev/kvm? Mine doesn't have, even after installing qemu, libvirt and some other software
Yeah I'm wondering how to get this to work under MacOS Monterey as well.
I guess ARM chips just don't have it
I was just trying to solve this problem and was gonna end up using Cockpit to manage a dedicated Windows VM. I hadn’t even considered putting a VM inside of a Docker container. That’s so simple but so clever.
One of my 2024 goals is to begin using Docker for some of my tasks as a software engineer doing medical imaging research. Although this is not exactly what I need I plan to give it a test..
Windows: not even once
I can't believe I haven't came across this sooner, this is awesome.
Internally we're going to start with setting up the container as a way to test intune and autopilot configurations, before we deploy them in production. Makes testing much easier !
I wonder what the viability of running blueiris with gpu decoding is.
3:25 you still need hardware virtualization right? or it that only for windows cause it requires wsl
Danke!
A truly interesting and definitely useful video - well presented. I'm going to give this a try. Thanks!
I feel like giving it a bunch of resources, PCIe passthrough if possible, and downloading Parsec onto it for cloud gaming. That would be cool.
I'm already using harvester to run my vm's and containers. It technically runs vm's as pods ontop of kubernetes so this may not be for me, but I have an idea which I can use this project for, deploying cms windows displays. Since the player will be always be in fullscreen, I can simply use any broswer, connect with ip address and have the content displayed on the tv or media screen device. Thanks very much for the video.
Hello. Thank you for the video, it is really instructive. This is the first video from you I watch, so excuse me if you have already answered my questions in previous videos.
I am *really* new into docker, in fact, I am barely documenting on the subject because I recently had the 'idea' of running Office 365 in Docker (knowing nothing about it before hand) instead of my MacOS Parallels Desktop VM which I do since 2010 when I switched from Windows.
1. What would be the advantages of the change, and would be the trade-offs?
2. Since I know *nothing* about Docker except for a couple of videos I have watched about it, would you recommend me to change my VM to Docker? (Knowing I need to use Office 365 for developing macros, Excel, Power Query and other heavy Office add-ins in my day-to-day work)
3. Do you have or do you have links to videos where I can learn Docker from scratch?
Thanks!
Error response from daemon: error gathering device information while adding custom device "/dev/kvm": no such file or directory
Was watching this video in sleepy mode this morning. Great stuff! Even put some smiles on my face and made me laugh! Well done! :) Ive seen all the macOS buttons and was ready to undust my MacBook...but reading your CORRECTION now in the comments. NOT on Mac. Too bad. ^^ Anyway, appreciated!
Love your sense of humor. Super subtle.
I needed 1 year ago Windows for a game. But I didn‘t want to dualboot. So I setup a VM with libvirt and then did a single-gpu-passthrough. I needed a bit to get it working, because I had a Problem, that was really rare, there was only one open thread that you could find and that was on a Proxmox forum. Without the help of a other person, that found that, I might never get it to work. But with the time I didn‘t used the VM anymore and because I really often switch my Linux Distro, I started to not set it up again and nowadays I don’t have a use case for any VM‘s
Pretty cool! Wouldn’t you lose the best perk of Docker Containers tho? Talking about the fact that they use the same kernel as the host. This seems to me like it only adds an additional, superfluous layer of abstraction
@9:15 If MS had a problem, would they have already stopped WoR? (Windows on Raspberry)
A great explanation, I followed along and did the Win 11 install on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and it was seamless. Thanks!!
how does it handle gpu?
Finally someone show something Very important
What I would like to do is just run my already installed windows 11(system is dual boot) through Linux so I dont have to restart for apps that STILL wont run on Linux.
What about some Adobe apps in the windows docker 🤔
I ended in separate computer with windows. As a bonus I can play my favourite windows only games. I have two computers plugged in to the same monitor, use logitech mouse paired with two usb dongles and a keyboard which I switch usb / bluetooth. I use bluetooth with linux, usb with windows.
@@user-fk2xg8nq6r what's your opinion on the "feels"? Does it laggy / unresponsive at some point? Btw, what's the maximum screen resolution you are able to set in the windows setting?
@Wolfgang's Channel : (a bit off topic here) Would it be an idea to test a range of UPS devices for functionality and power consumption? Every home lab needs a UPS of some sort, and idle power consumption varies a lot between models.. Would be nice to see a shoot out?
I can already play minesweeper on Linux with KMines or winemine, and play pinball with the open source SDL version (which I believe is reverse-engineered from winxp). I'm using my Windows VM for compiling C++ code for Windows with MSVC, and occasionally for some light 3D gaming. This would work for the compilation part, even better than a persistent VM.
If it's KVM, couldn't you just use Virtual Manager?
This video will hit millions of views!
So its like Vagrant but inside a Docker container?
imma check this out. gotta migrate wine, and lutris to docker and enable gpu support
work for gaming? i have a t14 gen 2 i5 1135g7, i reed on some forum that this cpu doesn't have GVT-d this use SR-IOV that you can use only with ACRN hypervisor (single iGPU passthrough)
arch linux 8gb ram
Hello...Used in Ubuntu...when you finish using Windows 11 (by default)...what is the path to eliminate the Used and Unnecessary Space by Windows 11 in the Download of the .iso and in the Decompression of the .iso ...Thank you 😊
This is a pretty cool idea. My preference would be a win 11 ghost version.
I typically do proxmox -> win11 ghost
Because running vanillla windows iso is absolutely terrible.
I also use templates for this so you only do it once really (might not work for your use case)
What a juicy content, thank you sir I was in need of it
Serious technical people look askance when I tell them that containerised Windows is a mere parlour trick.
Boss: "Yes but can you look at it please? Our managed service provider has a great new product"
Me: "But we're already fully bought into VMware"
Boss: "Exactly, and we got gifted all these Tanzu licences"
Me: "Errr...." *goes back to Helldivers 2*
Wow seems very useful to me since I yearly need an old Windows program to handle my taxes. It's a hassle every year but this docker might be the solution for running windows 15 minutes yearly.
How can you use this to run script serverless, with docker? Like running an azure function app (which are ran in Linux) with a windows docker image? Is it even possible?
this just saved me hours of work, thanks
I need it to code in C# for windows from my MacBook m1 pro. I was evaluating parallels 19... Do you think I can use this one instead? 🤔 I wonder the difference in CPU/RAM % ... Maybe you can make a comparison
Nope, you need a Linux host for it
did any of you guys successfully enable gpu for windows container, I did nvidia-smi works inside docker shell but doesn't work in windows
Thank you for the discovery of this project.
There's also quickemu, which IMO seems better at this for a workstation PC.
This project however may make more sense if you want the VM to be reachable from outside (and just have a simple setup, no need for something like proxmox), since it comes with a webclient etc.
[Question]: how do i know where the persistent drive is located on my windows 11 machine?
My heart dropped a beat at the title of the video
Super slick!!!!!!
Im not a programmer so its been challenging to find a use case for me to try Docker. This maybe my Gateway drug!
Just keep in mind that this isn't a real container. Windows is being virtualized by the KVM kernel driver which means it's a VM and not a container. This video is a bit misleading
Surely you can find something to run in your home lab
Why do you want to edit the Z690M-ITX bios? Is there any secret power saving tricks perhaps?
Windows product keys used are in the /assets XML files, so if one has licenses, I assume they can pre-configured to "valid" ones. :)
Cool idea and workaround!
I can't connect via the Microsoft Remote Desktop but no problem with the browser. Do you have a solution?
Have you tried to compare this with a barebone Windows VM? I have a VM running Windows, for a few dumb apps I'm not using that often. This looks interesting, but I'd be great to know what I should expect as a impact in the performance (overhead, primary)
I mean.. I already have Windows running in a QEMU KVM env., so putting that into a Debian or similar distro, just to spin up Windows inside Docker, maybe aren't that best take, if I already have Windows running... Or? That's the actual question, I guess.
Is there the possibility of doing a pass through and using the video card for this docker and performing heavier tasks such as video editing or games?
Currently using Windows to develop and test my software, but I found a second PC using RDP to be the best for this use case.
fantastic. love it..
thanks wolfgang!
Hey! Can I do that from AWS ECR and ECS?
does this solution avoid the problem of nested virtualization on Apple silicon chips?
context: the apps I require to test on windows need wsl2+docker (on windows). at the moment (at my knowledge) is not possible to achieve this environment on any Apple silicon chip (like M1, M2 or M3) forcing me to use a separate machine with x86_64 cpu
It would not avoid it, you won’t be able to run WSL2 inside this.
If you’re using VMs anyway, just use WSL1 and use the VM network to connect to a docker daemon on a Linux VM.
Hello Wolfie! How about a video of Docker-OSX? I just tried it on my headless J4125 server. Ran like ass but it worked! You might like it!
Thanks for sharing. This is really rather cool to hear about.
Is it really a container if it's just using the kvm kernel driver? It's just a VM with docker wrapper around it. I prefer to just run Qemu+KVM or VirtualBox.
Does it run in TrueNAS in k3s ? or in LXC on proxmox? Yes I am Terrible.
I have myThinkPad running Arch for a while now. this is useful to have a Windows option on standby.
Also my one remaining windows box will go native Linux now
I needed a CAD software for 3D printing. After looking at a ton of expensive options, I went with the much more affordable Shapr3D, nice bonus, it works on my iPad. But no Linux version, no way to run the iPad version on Linux, the windows version is a windows store app and i think it’s UWP, which wine doesn’t support, the windows version is trash anyway, lol, and my only option would be to use darling to run the Mac version, but my hopes to run complex gui software is pretty nonexistent.
I could just use different software, but it’s meh that software compatibility is still an issue in 2024
Any idea if you can run Visual Studio and WinForms inside this? I imagine there might be a lot of lag, but would be fun to try it
Lag is when your mom blow my job
I do recall there was a requirement for containers with Windows to only run on a licensed Windows installation though. Did this change?
Hey! Do you know why mine keeps resetting after downloading whole windows image? over and over again ;/
Would this work on a Synology or UGREEN NAS? If possible, what would the steps be?
I am going to try and get this running using a stack in a Portainer instance on my ProxMox Server. Should at least be educational. I have a few Windows VMs already running but this looks interesting. It may or may not be more efficient especially if I get it working with one of the tiny windows version you mention. Cheers good content. I may come back and post if I got it working.
I only spent about 45 minutes but was unsuccessful but really didn't try too hard. I need to read up on deploying stacks in Portainer. I am sure I could spin up a linux VM in proxmox then install docker then run the command and get that working but was hoping it would work easily with Portainer. If I spin up a Linux VM to get this working I might as well just spin up a windows VM. Was interesting to watch I may take another stab at it if I have some free time.
As I keep digging I fear this may not work. KVM is working on my proxmox server but I have a Debian VM running portainer and it does not have access to KVM. I am not sure how to work around this. Sorry to SPAM your comments. I was super excited as I thought I could get this to work in Portainer and it may work but I am still learning my way around and usually know just enough to get myself into trouble. Cheers on the video! I was trying to use this in a slightly different way. I kinda think of it as the movie inception.
Is it possible to install this "Windows" in a Synology NAS Docker (Container Manager)? I found it dockurr/windows in the registration tab in my Synology, but it is not possible to run it. Can you give me some tips?
I don't see why it can't be run on a Synology. It is just a container like all the other containers. The only problem you can have is that it consumes a lot of resources, and that is the reason why I am not going to run it on Synology.
1238 unread emails - seriously? There is not even one day that I would close my laptop with unread emails ;-)
Last night I started looking for alternatives to run Windows on my mac, vid couldn't have had a better timing
You could always run a desktop version of VMware (VMware Workstation) and run Windows there, but I guess you want to run open-source software?
@@Equality-and-LibertyI've been a bit out of the vm scene and was going to virtualbox it, this served it's purpose and there's no clean up to do after other than image and container in docker, pretty sweet
Who or what is Bob Pony?
Hi,
what about licenses if this is being installed in production scenarios for example?
Tnx
Can you use this to update the host PC bios? Often that is the easiest from windows.
I don't think so
How to save the iml file once opened and pasted the commands ?
I don't know how to save the file.
are there any specific keyboards shortcuts?
My guy has all the major OSes in 1 video
I wonder if a GH Actions workflow can be created from this, since a Python app I made won't compile to Windows properly under a workflow that uses PyInstaller running under Wine
Yes, but you'll likely want to set up a custom runner. I doubt that the free GH runners come with KVM support.
You can also disable KVM acceleration, but that will make the VMs veeeeeeeery slow
AMIBCP 5 does work in wine, I use it all the time
It has like 5 different versions, no?
@@0ka354 Any of them should work
All I know is that it doesn't work on my machine :)
I would be dead than use windows again ever in my life
Thanks to you, I installed Docker container but I was stuck on downloading Windows. Error message is below
docker: unknown server OS:
But I installed Docker container and version info is below
Docker version 27.3.1, build ce12230
I am using Fedora though
Can i run 2 or 3 instances of the same program on docker? Like installing the same game twice.
This was pretty good. However, I could not find an environment setting that would have the container built from a local windows iso file. Is downloading every time the only way for now?
Theres an application that I can use to change the RGB lights on my keyboard but it only has windows compatibility. Would it be possible to run windows in a container, install that application in that container and then use it to change the lights on my keyboard?
Hey Wolfgang! What font is that on your terminal? Thanks
Comic Code
Let me know when you have a video running windows in a Vanilla OS container or similar. Thanks