Hi Lizao,

This is very nice! I agree this is highly useful now that Windows is
no longer supported natively by the FEniCS Project.

Additionally we have developed a Vagrant/VirtualBox approach which
automatically sets up a VM with Ubuntu, a basic GUI and DOLFIN from
the PPA:

https://bitbucket.org/unilucompmech/fenics-vagrant

The difference with your approach is that that Docker runs natively on
top of Linux, i.e. there is little/no performance overhead. Docker
creates Virtualized Environments (VEs) rather than Virtual Machines
(VMs). VEs are more like enhanced chroot's, than Vagrants VMs which
are completely separate systems. This may explain the excellent
performance you see under an Ubuntu host.

Under Windows however, Docker uses a Virtual Machine running Linux + a
Virtualized Environment. So performance will not be so good. Linux is
the only fully supported platform for Docker.

Kind Regards,

Dr. Jack Hale
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