Docker has betas of both Docker for OS X as well as Docker for Windows. Macs were running every Docker team demo at the Dockercon 16 keynote today, however, there are a lot of us using Windows for newer hardware.
The Windows version requires Hyper-V which is nice since you do not need VirtualBox. Here is launching into a Ubuntu 16.04 shell via cmd.exe:
Since I do have a few extra SSDs in my desktop, I also found that you can use local drives as shared drives in Docker for Windows:
Here is Hyper-V manager with the Linux VM running. You can use the Docker-> Settings panel to assign more cores/ RAM and never use Hyper-V manager.
And automatically configured virtual switch settings:
After an update and installing openssl even benchmarks (openssl speed -multi 6 rsa) ran without issue:
Really cool!
The Windows version requires Hyper-V which is nice since you do not need VirtualBox. Here is launching into a Ubuntu 16.04 shell via cmd.exe:
Since I do have a few extra SSDs in my desktop, I also found that you can use local drives as shared drives in Docker for Windows:
Here is Hyper-V manager with the Linux VM running. You can use the Docker-> Settings panel to assign more cores/ RAM and never use Hyper-V manager.
And automatically configured virtual switch settings:
After an update and installing openssl even benchmarks (openssl speed -multi 6 rsa) ran without issue:
Really cool!
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