Yasha Karant <[email protected]> writes: > For example, will a > legally licensed MS Win application that does not run under > Wine/CrossOver work under Docker under SL 7 the same as it would under > VirtualBox with a full install of say MS Win 8.1 (soon MS Win 10)?
Docker containers run on Linux (the kernel) so, no, if your application requires honest-to-badness MicroSoft Windows don't plan on using Docker. > Can one make a Docker application package on the target host (e.g., SL > 7) or does one need first a full install of the (virtual) base I don't know what "target" (host? guest?) means here. A Docker image is a full OS (minus the kernel). To start you write one line in a Dockerfile like: FROM fedora:20 and do a "docker build" You can follow up this line with additional instructions (such as "yum install ...") to further populate. If you have a second image that shares some portion of these instructions, or as you add more instructions, any prior existing "layer" is reused. I don't find a lot of bases for SL but there are ways to add new base OSes from first principles (CMS has some scripts in github) and there are established ones for centos. -Brett.
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