Docker.io for Windows [closed]

Question

I was reading a nice question about docker - answer has overview of docker implementation details. I was wondering if anything like this is possible to do on Windows platform.

• Do Windows alternatives for Docker exist?
• Is it theoretically possible to use other (Windows based) components to build it?

Update1:

• Slightly related question (sandboxing): Is there a lightweight, programmable Sandbox API for the Windows platform?

Update2::

For info how to install docker on windows (unrelated) - official docs has great instructions how to set up the environment by using boot2docker VM.

Answer 1

You can run docker in a virtual machine.

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New Update

Vagrant has now integrated docker support. It can be used as provider or as provisioner. Here are some useful links.

Feature Preview: Docker-Based Development Environments

Vagrant Docs: Docker Provisioner

Vagrant Docs: Docker Provider

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Old Update

As seanf pointed out in a comment below, Vagrant support was dropped. Instead they point to boot2docker:

boot2docker is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux made specifically to run Docker containers. It runs completely from RAM, weighs ~24MB and boots in ~5s (YMMV).

Old answer

The official docker documentation contains a small guide to install docker inside a Vagrant box. Vagrant is a great vm management wrapper. The guide is for Mac/Linux, but you get the idea to do the same in Windows:

http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/vagrant/

This way you can share docker images across multiple systems with different operating systems.