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[blueblizzy]

Here's an interesting article from the Microsoft perspective on the whole containerization thing:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2850056/application-virtualization/microsoft-docker-cli-windows.html

Note the following comment:

The biggest missing piece is container support, which must be added to Windows itself so that Docker can run natively. This isn't the same as having Docker running in Azure, where it's used to manage Linux workloads. It's even more radical: adding features to the Windows kernel that parallel Linux's cgroups and namespaces, both essential to Docker's workings.

That said, Microsoft has remained tight-lipped on how it will do this. It could be via a kernel-level driver or require a full-blown revision to the kernel for a future edition of Windows, but the company hasn't posited so much as a time frame for the shift.

Microsoft buying out Sphere 3D? Containers in containers? :)

[Pepsiman2001]

Well done, this post is a keeper. Please post more often. Help us figure this puzzle out. Most of us only know what we research. Sounds like you are "in" the industry.

[struftepete1]

blueblizzy, thanks for putting this straight!
You explained this very well and nicely documented...super!

[ahagelthrope]

Great posts Bluebizzy. Now it makes sense why PB feels so strongly about the advantages of Glassware solution.
Thanks for making it clear.

"Docker cannot run legacy Windows apps or modern .NET apps without modification. Any Windows-based app that needs to be containerized must be modified to take advantage of the recently announced .NET Core Framework for Linux/OS X. This is why Sphere 3D is marketing Glassware as a solution that is capable of virtualizing any application, including legacy apps because Docker in its current form (or any other app virtualization technology that takes advantage of containers) cannot do this. Glassware goes beyond Windows app virtualization by having the microvisor emulate the capabilities of a different OS kernel. Be it, Linux, XNU (which OS X and iOS is based on), etc. Heck, you can theoretically run Docker within Glassware if you really wanted to to (container in a container)"