[GH-ISSUE #190] Running on Windows #135

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opened 2026-02-27 22:08:08 +03:00 by kerem · 4 comments

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Originally created by @leduardo99 on GitHub (Mar 14, 2021).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX/issues/190

Is it possible to create an OSX container using a windows machine as a host or do we really need to use Linux?

I use Windows and I have Docker, but I was unable to use the aforementioned commands.

Originally created by @leduardo99 on GitHub (Mar 14, 2021). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX/issues/190 Is it possible to create an OSX container using a windows machine as a host or do we really need to use Linux? I use Windows and I have Docker, but I was unable to use the aforementioned commands.

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@sickcodes commented on GitHub (Mar 14, 2021):

Please see existing Windows discussion here: https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX/issues/37

It is incredibly slow on WSL2, might change in the future though if Windows keeps doing what they're doing!

@sickcodes commented on GitHub (Mar 14, 2021): Please see existing Windows discussion here: https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX/issues/37 It is incredibly slow on WSL2, might change in the future though if Windows keeps doing what they're doing!

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@Buthrakaur commented on GitHub (Oct 15, 2021):

@sickcodes sorry - I'm totally confused in terms of running OSX container on Windows machine. I followed https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX#id-like-to-run-docker-osx-with-wsl2-windows-ubuntu , but all points to WSL so does it mean running this container on Windows is not possible and the only option is to run it on Linux inside WSL? I tried to launch the big sur container on pure Windows, but it failed because of missing KVM device:

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Status: Downloaded newer image for sickcodes/docker-osx:big-sur
docker: Error response from daemon: error gathering device information while adding custom device "/dev/kvm": no such file or directory.

@Buthrakaur commented on GitHub (Oct 15, 2021): @sickcodes sorry - I'm totally confused in terms of running OSX container on Windows machine. I followed https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX#id-like-to-run-docker-osx-with-wsl2-windows-ubuntu , but all points to WSL so does it mean running this container on Windows is not possible and the only option is to run it on Linux inside WSL? I tried to launch the big sur container on pure Windows, but it failed because of missing KVM device: ``` ... Status: Downloaded newer image for sickcodes/docker-osx:big-sur docker: Error response from daemon: error gathering device information while adding custom device "/dev/kvm": no such file or directory. ```

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@sickcodes commented on GitHub (Oct 18, 2021):

Yeah it won't work in pure Windows, it requires WSL2. Were you able to get it to work?

@sickcodes commented on GitHub (Oct 18, 2021): Yeah it won't work in pure Windows, it requires WSL2. Were you able to get it to work?

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@Buthrakaur commented on GitHub (Oct 19, 2021):

Understand - thanks. I'll give it a try. It probably makes sense to improve the readme little bit: https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX/pull/361

@Buthrakaur commented on GitHub (Oct 19, 2021): Understand - thanks. I'll give it a try. It probably makes sense to improve the readme little bit: https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX/pull/361