Docker on a Windows VM Without Nested Virtualization — Process Isolation, Two Traps, and the Image That Was Linux All Along
A customer wanted Docker on a Windows Server VM, on a hypervisor with no nested virtualization. Docker Desktop cannot run there. Docker Engine with Windows containers in process isolation can, but only if two traps are out of the way. And before any of that, one check on the image decides whether Windows is the right OS at all.