Huge thanks to Ridge for sponsoring the video! Use this link to get up to 30% off through April 1st: ridge.com/wolfgang dockur/windows by Kroese: github.com/dockur/windows CORRECTION: This will not work on Mac, only on Linux.

@michalkurka5810

4 ай бұрын

It is not running in a docker container. Interesting but the title is really misleading.

@WolfgangsChannel

4 ай бұрын

“Running Windows in a VM that is run by a Docker container that mounts /dev/kvm from the host, but also automates the installation for you” doesn’t really roll off the tongue

@noriller

4 ай бұрын

Next step: windows distrobox guest?

@MrDavidebond

4 ай бұрын

Can also create a template / kvm image using packer, and just run it with kvm. Or if using kubernetes, use kubvirt to run them.

@MatthewatCourseCareers

3 ай бұрын

Hey Wolfgang - We sent you an email about a paid partnership. Let me know what you think.

Using WSL under Windows 11 to run Docker, which is also running a container for Linux that is running a virtualisation of Windows 11 is so ridiculously cursed and I LOVE it.

@Demios101

4 ай бұрын

Someone stop him!

@ozymogaming

4 ай бұрын

@@Demios101 no I use windows WSL too its amazing

@RedSaint83

4 ай бұрын

And I thought using Wine via WSL was cursed enough, that's a whole other level 😱

@adriancoanda9227

4 ай бұрын

yeah try runnin mac os under gwsl

@rosyidharyadi7871

4 ай бұрын

It's tempting to try but I know my computer will hate me for that torture.

It is a KVM in the guise of a docker "container".... An interesting project no doubt.

@Mempler

4 ай бұрын

Might actually be useful aswell

@Henry-sv3wv

3 ай бұрын

then why not use vagrant

It's not running in a Docker Container. It's running in a KVM backed QEMU VM that is automatically configured by a Docker script. Saves some problems with config at least.

@lucsoft

3 ай бұрын

it is? lmao containers are just normal processes with some security flags

@Diamonddrake

3 ай бұрын

QEMU is a type-2 userland hypervisor AND a kvm virtualizer. If you set kvm: false in the environment it will run entirely in userland inside docker

7:34 The entirety of RAM and swap being completely pegged by the VMS's

I don't know how you deliver such awesome quality almost every time!!! I totally loved it!

Wolfgang, superb video. How clever of you to know this is exactly what I was looking for.

A truly interesting and definitely useful video - well presented. I'm going to give this a try. Thanks!

What an absolutely impeccable timing... I was _just_ about to set up a VM so I could update my damn mouse (love you logitrash

@mikhail-pletnev

4 ай бұрын

Why on Earth would one need to UPDATE the mouse? Security vulnerabilities? 🤣

@WolfgangsChannel

4 ай бұрын

@mikhail-plentev You're laughing, but... www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/logitech-unifying-receivers-vulnerable-to-key-injection-attacks/

@AQDuck

4 ай бұрын

@@mikhail-pletnev Bug with scrolling, sometimes doesn't register when in wireless mode, super annoying

@LichtTempler

4 ай бұрын

@@AQDuck, but you still need USB passthrough for it, don't you?

@AQDuck

4 ай бұрын

​@@LichtTempler As he said in the video, it uses KVM so you can pass any device through

I can't believe I haven't came across this sooner, this is awesome.

I love that you used the same port as Proxmox, and used Proxmox as your complicated example of running a VM.

@monad_tcp

4 ай бұрын

I'm surprised he somehow used KVM with a Mac, or was he remoting into the cluster with that clunky macOs ? or is it a hackintosh also running under KVM ?

@cheebadigga4092

2 ай бұрын

@@monad_tcp Medium article "Qemu, virt-manager, and libvirt on macOS with Apple silicon M2".

Love your sense of humor. Super subtle.

Cannot wait for the N100 build video! I’m about to build my home server/nas and I’m about to go with the industrial ASRock board. But I’m holding my horses and waiting patiently for your N100 build. Love your content, keep up the good work! ❤

@WolfgangsChannel

4 ай бұрын

Good news - it's coming at the end of the month :)

As an Unraid user I just (un)surprisingly found this image in the Apps. I'm giving it a try and thank you for sharing!

Woah! This couldn't have come at a better time! I was just looking for a solution to run a DayZ server, a Windows only application, without needing to leave one of our gaming PCs on all the time. Now I just need more RAM before I can setup a VM on my Ubuntu server.

@zer0pwninit

2 ай бұрын

oho day Z player here. I love that game

What a juicy content, thank you sir I was in need of it

Not sure if you read comments, but great video! You mentioned in your PiKVM video that you can use alternative hardware to run PiKVM other than the raspberry pi, as the Pi isn't really worth it in terms of cost. I'd be really interested in an update on that topic, I believe you specifically mentioned using a cheap TV box instead of a Pi.

fantastic. love it.. thanks wolfgang!

Thank you for the discovery of this project.

this just saved me hours of work, thanks

I was just trying to solve this problem and was gonna end up using Cockpit to manage a dedicated Windows VM. I hadn’t even considered putting a VM inside of a Docker container. That’s so simple but so clever.

Docker tends to ignore UFW and writes to iptables, so be careful with that open 3389.

@churchofsatan2041

4 ай бұрын

what is the worse scenario

@WolfgangsChannel

4 ай бұрын

@churchofsatan2041 you run this on an unfirewalled machine with a public IP, and then anyone can log in to your Windows container using RDP

@noneyourb172

4 ай бұрын

@@WolfgangsChannel My original comment was to say that even if your host machine is firewalled you should double check that you're not exposing 3389 to networks you don't want it to be available on. I ran into that issue with an FTP container on a production machine once. Thankfully blue team found it.

@ShrirajHegde

4 ай бұрын

You can just do 127.0.0.1:port:port instead of port:port this will only bind to 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0 Docker will ignore any and every firewall rules because that is its purpose. It directly opens ports using iptables. You can use host networking if you want a container to follow your firewall rules.

@Daniel15au

4 ай бұрын

nftables, not iptables. iptables is deprecated and will be removed in the future.

just tried it, amazing! thanks!!

Has a lot of potential in CI/CD for testing code

@AlexAlex-jk2tn

3 ай бұрын

I reviewed the project and I couldn't found any option for running any command in the container without using GUI. So only wine containers are still the option.

Thanks for sharing. This is really rather cool to hear about.

Excellent video, Wolfgang. Thank you! Is this possible on docker desktop?

A great explanation, I followed along and did the Win 11 install on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and it was seamless. Thanks!!

Thank you. This is brilliant. I do have a question. How did you download that youtube video using ed/ ? I can't figure that out. Also, how do you run the multiple version of Windoze at the same time? How does your compose.yaml file looks like for that? I tried creating another with different ports for the noVNC, but I could never connect to it. I see you have all the shared data* folders in the same folder. If you could share this step that would be great. Enjoying your videos :)

Missed Opportunity: Naming it "Linux Subsystem for Windows"

Thank you, this is awesome ! I was wondering, on Proxmox, is there a port or an equivalent of this project, but in an LXC container ?

Hello. Thank you for the video, it is really instructive. This is the first video from you I watch, so excuse me if you have already answered my questions in previous videos. I am *really* new into docker, in fact, I am barely documenting on the subject because I recently had the 'idea' of running Office 365 in Docker (knowing nothing about it before hand) instead of my MacOS Parallels Desktop VM which I do since 2010 when I switched from Windows. 1. What would be the advantages of the change, and would be the trade-offs? 2. Since I know *nothing* about Docker except for a couple of videos I have watched about it, would you recommend me to change my VM to Docker? (Knowing I need to use Office 365 for developing macros, Excel, Power Query and other heavy Office add-ins in my day-to-day work) 3. Do you have or do you have links to videos where I can learn Docker from scratch? Thanks!

Was watching this video in sleepy mode this morning. Great stuff! Even put some smiles on my face and made me laugh! Well done! :) Ive seen all the macOS buttons and was ready to undust my MacBook...but reading your CORRECTION now in the comments. NOT on Mac. Too bad. ^^ Anyway, appreciated!

Thats gold right there!

This video will hit millions of views!

Windows: not even once

@jothain

4 ай бұрын

All power users use all the possible platforms.

Amazing! Thanks!

Super slick!!!!!! Im not a programmer so its been challenging to find a use case for me to try Docker. This maybe my Gateway drug!

@censoredeveryday3320

Ай бұрын

Just keep in mind that this isn't a real container. Windows is being virtualized by the KVM kernel driver which means it's a VM and not a container. This video is a bit misleading

Thanks for the video. Is it possible to change the hypervisor from KVM to VMware?

Finally someone show something Very important

This was pretty good. However, I could not find an environment setting that would have the container built from a local windows iso file. Is downloading every time the only way for now?

I'm already using harvester to run my vm's and containers. It technically runs vm's as pods ontop of kubernetes so this may not be for me, but I have an idea which I can use this project for, deploying cms windows displays. Since the player will be always be in fullscreen, I can simply use any broswer, connect with ip address and have the content displayed on the tv or media screen device. Thanks very much for the video.

My guy has all the major OSes in 1 video

I have Windows 11 Pro installed and running in Ubuntu as a Docker container but I can't get the sound working. Did I miss something in the video somewhere about getting sound to work in the Windows VM?

Pretty cool! Wouldn’t you lose the best perk of Docker Containers tho? Talking about the fact that they use the same kernel as the host. This seems to me like it only adds an additional, superfluous layer of abstraction

Does it run in TrueNAS in k3s ? or in LXC on proxmox? Yes I am Terrible. I have myThinkPad running Arch for a while now. this is useful to have a Windows option on standby. Also my one remaining windows box will go native Linux now

This would be incredibly awesome for testing and/or JPackage. I think I know what i'm doing this weekend :)

Great video!

How to save the iml file once opened and pasted the commands ? I don't know how to save the file. are there any specific keyboards shortcuts?

I need it to code in C# for windows from my MacBook m1 pro. I was evaluating parallels 19... Do you think I can use this one instead? 🤔 I wonder the difference in CPU/RAM % ... Maybe you can make a comparison

@WolfgangsChannel

4 ай бұрын

Nope, you need a Linux host for it

Awesome thank you!

Hello...Used in Ubuntu...when you finish using Windows 11 (by default)...what is the path to eliminate the Used and Unnecessary Space by Windows 11 in the Download of the .iso and in the Decompression of the .iso ...Thank you 😊

great video bro!

I wonder what the viability of running blueiris with gpu decoding is.

Did you have to install anything for your macOS to have the file /dev/kvm? Mine doesn't have, even after installing qemu, libvirt and some other software

@rileycassel6931

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm wondering how to get this to work under MacOS Monterey as well.

Is there the possibility of doing a pass through and using the video card for this docker and performing heavier tasks such as video editing or games?

One of my 2024 goals is to begin using Docker for some of my tasks as a software engineer doing medical imaging research. Although this is not exactly what I need I plan to give it a test..

work for gaming? i have a t14 gen 2 i5 1135g7, i reed on some forum that this cpu doesn't have GVT-d this use SR-IOV that you can use only with ACRN hypervisor (single iGPU passthrough) arch linux 8gb ram

Hi, I have proxmox on a server with the virtaulize option enabled, but when I create a VM does not allow me to create the container because there is no /dev/kvm, I have to create the machine with some option ?

I can already play minesweeper on Linux with KMines or winemine, and play pinball with the open source SDL version (which I believe is reverse-engineered from winxp). I'm using my Windows VM for compiling C++ code for Windows with MSVC, and occasionally for some light 3D gaming. This would work for the compilation part, even better than a persistent VM.

Hi, what about licenses if this is being installed in production scenarios for example? Tnx

Wolfgang, What font do you use for your terminal?

Last night I started looking for alternatives to run Windows on my mac, vid couldn't have had a better timing

@Equality-and-Liberty

3 ай бұрын

You could always run a desktop version of VMware (VMware Workstation) and run Windows there, but I guess you want to run open-source software?

@driden1987

3 ай бұрын

@@Equality-and-LibertyI've been a bit out of the vm scene and was going to virtualbox it, this served it's purpose and there's no clean up to do after other than image and container in docker, pretty sweet

can u share your yml settings? does this remember your setting and install applications? can i backup to use on another machine. like i can with kvm

My heart dropped a beat at the title of the video

Hello. I have got Parallels on my mac m1 to run windows. But the arm architecture off the mac processor makes impossible to use NDI tools app. Could the solution you expose solve my problem ? Sorry if my question is stupid :)

I have the same motherboard, is there a reason you needed that BIOS utility?

does this solution avoid the problem of nested virtualization on Apple silicon chips? context: the apps I require to test on windows need wsl2+docker (on windows). at the moment (at my knowledge) is not possible to achieve this environment on any Apple silicon chip (like M1, M2 or M3) forcing me to use a separate machine with x86_64 cpu

@paradoxmo

3 ай бұрын

It would not avoid it, you won’t be able to run WSL2 inside this. If you’re using VMs anyway, just use WSL1 and use the VM network to connect to a docker daemon on a Linux VM.

Theres an application that I can use to change the RGB lights on my keyboard but it only has windows compatibility. Would it be possible to run windows in a container, install that application in that container and then use it to change the lights on my keyboard?

Why do you want to edit the Z690M-ITX bios? Is there any secret power saving tricks perhaps?

0:34 You don't need an MS account. Just choose other and choose a domain, then it lets you sign in locally.

Hey bro I just watched your video on NAS vs Home servers. When you say you stream media, its only local right? How would you stream it remotely or on your phone?

@WolfgangsChannel

4 ай бұрын

VPN into my home network

Now I can run heroes III again

@9:15 If MS had a problem, would they have already stopped WoR? (Windows on Raspberry)

Internally we're going to start with setting up the container as a way to test intune and autopilot configurations, before we deploy them in production. Makes testing much easier !

Any idea if you can run Visual Studio and WinForms inside this? I imagine there might be a lot of lag, but would be fun to try it

@fabricio4794

4 ай бұрын

Lag is when your mom blow my job

Good job, poor man's Baron Zemo

How could it apply a firmware update for your system in a VM?

Hello, I tried to install in Fedora, but I ended up with an error message: iptables v1.8.10 (legacy): can't initialize iptables table `nat': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?) I think it's because Fedora no longer uses iptables. Is it possible to fix / solve it somehow? Thank you!

I saw in your start menu you have Lumiar Neo. Have you tested that in this setup? I used to try to get some photo editing tools to run in a kvm vm, but there was always the problem of not having installed opencl or some other hardware acceleration frameworks. Could say something more about that?

@WolfgangsChannel

3 ай бұрын

I've no idea what Luminar Neo is, sorry

@MrDominosify

3 ай бұрын

​@@WolfgangsChannelit's in the start menu at 5:53 but I guess that this is a windows ad then hahaha

I couldn't find a way to activate audio. Gemini and Copilot have some suggestions about using Pulseaudio in Windows, which I did to no avail. Has anyone managed to activate audio?

This is awesome! Vt-d is not relevant though. Will have to modify it to try 11arm on apple silicon

Wow. thats impressive.

All the files gets remove once we shutdown is there anyway we can we can save it for later as well.

Hey Wolfgang! What font is that on your terminal? Thanks

@WolfgangsChannel

4 ай бұрын

Comic Code

So its like Vagrant but inside a Docker container?

Can i run windows server core with windows admin center and active directory inside it?

Thanks for this video. Can you add a igpu and output to external monitor (HDMI/VGA output)?

@WolfgangsChannel

4 ай бұрын

Theoretically yes, in practice you’ll need the VGABIOS and that might get complicated

Finally! I can use my laptop (which has arch installed btw) for autocad because of a stupid class at uni.

There's also quickemu, which IMO seems better at this for a workstation PC. This project however may make more sense if you want the VM to be reachable from outside (and just have a simple setup, no need for something like proxmox), since it comes with a webclient etc.

doubt, could this windows be integrated into "active directory"? Or would the host also have to have such integration?

I needed 1 year ago Windows for a game. But I didn‘t want to dualboot. So I setup a VM with libvirt and then did a single-gpu-passthrough. I needed a bit to get it working, because I had a Problem, that was really rare, there was only one open thread that you could find and that was on a Proxmox forum. Without the help of a other person, that found that, I might never get it to work. But with the time I didn‘t used the VM anymore and because I really often switch my Linux Distro, I started to not set it up again and nowadays I don’t have a use case for any VM‘s

Is it really a container if it's just using the kvm kernel driver? It's just a VM with docker wrapper around it. I prefer to just run Qemu+KVM or VirtualBox.

Please help, can I run games like Counter Strike with this setup on my macbook?

Would for older Windows versions too?

Thanks for this video.. Is it also possible to change the windows username and add a password?

running under docker on Synology (xpenology) I got an error with the devices /dev/kvm so I commented out those lines in the docker compose yaml and then the container started. I do have the web gui on port 8006 but will I have problems running Windows?

@WolfgangsChannel

3 ай бұрын

Yes - disabling KVM acceleration will make your Windows VM a lot slower

So, does Windows 7 configured with dockur runs better than Windows 7 in Virtualbox ?

Currently using Windows to develop and test my software, but I found a second PC using RDP to be the best for this use case.

Is Samsung Dex supported?. I really want to use it in my Mac.

@Wolfgang's Channel : (a bit off topic here) Would it be an idea to test a range of UPS devices for functionality and power consumption? Every home lab needs a UPS of some sort, and idle power consumption varies a lot between models.. Would be nice to see a shoot out?