On Windows

As the Docker engine uses Linux kernel features, to execute it on Windows, you need to use a virtual machine. A Windows Docker client is used to control the virtualised Docker engine to execute, manage and build Docker containers.

Docker has been tested on Windows 7.1 and 8, apart from other versions. The processor needs to support hardware virtualisation. To make the process easier, an application called Boot2Docker has been designed that installs the virtual machine and runs the Docker. 1. First, download the latest version of Docker for the