On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 03:20:33PM -0500, Jason Sherman wrote: > I guess I was thinking that this would be a docker image supported > via the new docker on windows.
The Kirkland post [1] Robin linked [2] has: "Ah, okay, so this is Ubuntu in a container then?" Nope! This isn't a container either. It's native Ubuntu binaries running directly in Windows. Kirkland explains it as an emulation layer built into the kernel [1] (so basically with this feature a “Windows kernel” will support both traditionally-Windows syscalls and traditionally-Linux syscalls (presumably for some subset of potential Linux syscalls). And this is coupled with userspace work to make Window's terminal emulator understand the VT100 (or VT102/VT220 [3]?) functionality used by many terminal programs [1]. The new Docker with Windows containers stuff also sounds cool, but that's about encapsulation and isolation and not about running native Windows binaries. It's possible that the two together could let you run Linux-oriented containers natively on Windows (instead of just Windows-oriented containers). I'd guess that would depend on how well the Linux-emulation support covered what was needed by the container. Cheers, Trevor [1]: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html [2]: http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2016-March/004139.html Subject: Re: [Discuss] Bash in Windows 10 mid-year update Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:55:56 +0100 Message-Id: <[email protected]> [3]: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
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