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GitHub - winapps-org/winapps: Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Wait, Docker and Podman can create Windows VMs?

I had winapps setup using QEMU quite a while ago but this seems like a much tidier setup.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Docker and Podman can't run Windows VMs by themselves. These containers use QEMU, so it's essentially a pre-made setup for what you already had.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's a shame. Still very cool and much tidier than doing it directly but I thought you could actually pull windows:latest now and get going.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    That will unfortunately never be a thing. They could theoretically do a "Docker machine" like setup to support actual Windows containers, but there's probably not enough interest in that.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, had to dive in myself.

    The answer is no, they can’t. You need to pass /dev/kvm and /dev/net/tun in a composefile for a reason.

    There’s no „windows in docker”, but rather „handy windows vm orchestrator with nice UI in a container”. A bit of a mouthful.

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