Is it possible to create a docker image for Windows 10 with GUI support? I want to run the browser and some stand-alone app on windows GUI. So far I have found the same for CentOS for not for windows.
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I am not sure if windows has allowed to use its kernel for free images as its the revenue generating platform for them.
Rancher group works on making GUI based docker images you can refer there site for such information link : https://rancher.com/
Rancher has also few images of windows on hub.docker.com for demonstration purpose which you can checkout freely. The only concern is they are large in size around 2.5 Gigs
This may not be relevant but ios images are already available if you want to try you can refer the link : https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
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System: I've a Windows Server 2019 OS installed with a NVIDIA Tesla T4 Tensor Core GPU.
Goal: Planning to read real time streaming videos from an IP camera and to further process frame by frame. Goal is to leverage NVIDIA DeepStream SDK, but issue is, it isn't available for Windows OS. So, I'm thinking on the docker lines, but since am very new to docker containers, would like to know if I can install a docker on Windows and can run this deepstream docker image on that.
If not, is there any way I can run this Linux based DeepStream docker image on Windows? Any help shall be greatly acknowledged.
I have never worked with the windows server before it should be the same as a docker in Linux VM.
First, you need to pull docker images for deepstream
docker pull nvcr.io/nvidia/deepstream:5.0-dp-20.04-triton
and then try to run sample apps provided in the docker image.
Refer this for the procedure.
if you are interested in python apps you can check sample apps here.
Note:- make sure you are able to access display from inside the container cause deepstream use eglsink in their samples app which will try to open a display window on your screen or you can change the sink type to filesink if you want to save it is a file.
Refer this for available plugins and their attributes.
According to the post in Nivida forum, Windows not supported.
As alternative, I wonder if anyone used the Nvidia Graph Composer in Windows.
We have a large application with several parts running on a Windows VM and I am trying to evaluate Docker containers for our application deployment. Is it possible to create a base docker image from an existing Windows VM already running my application? (I know this can be done using Dockerfile but I am looking for a quick way to create the image)
https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/eng-image/baseimages/
Above link describes creating image from working machine for Linux, but I am looking for something similar for Windows.
The only base image for Windows that I know are the ones proposed by Microsoft, for Windows Server 2016 or 1709.
See "PoC: How to build images for 1709 without 1709"
That means you can translate any Widows VM into an image.
You would need:
a Dockerfile
the right Microsoft base image, which would represent a Windows server one.
Typically:
microsoft/nanoserver,
microsoft/windowsservercore
If you application only runs on a Windows VM, you need to make sure it can be installed and run on one of those base Windows images.
EVen though you are using a VM Windows server 2016, you would not be able to quickly "capture its state": you need a Dockerfile to describe what you want your Widows container to run.
No it's not possible. You have some stuff like Vm2Docker etc but all it does the same thing you will do manually that is enumerate features installed and create some artifacts for you.
But it's not possible to do for third party application as you mentioned. You'd have to disassemble it and figure out how to scripts to install it.
I am looking for a way to have a Development environment of Production web server for our Developers/testers created using Docker on windows.
I have windows server 2016 OS installed on a Physical server (not VM), and want to dockerize it so that Dev team can make changes on it first and once they confirm all working fine then same changes will be done on production web server.
Thanks,
RK.
I am on a mac but want to build my application on a windows image. Is this possible with docker? If so what image do I need to use?
The reason I need to build the application on windows is for the code signing and binary building of electron. If this is not possible please let me know.
Since docker is not meant to be a UI for users (though it can be); images for Windows 7, 8, 10, et al are not available. However, Windows Server Core IS available via the Docker Hub.
If you simply need a x86 Win environment to build the application that should do the trick. If you need a full GUI, go Virtual Box or other virtualization tech. Docker containers are meant for single process isolation, ever see windows run only 1 process?
Hope this helps!
Update: It IS possible to run GUI applications via Docker; at least on a Linux host. http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-docker/
Update2: It is now possible to run Windows applications (CLI or GUI) via Docker: here and here has information regarding the process.
I got my Docker up and running on windows,
Now I want to make a container from my application that needs to be installed on a windows server 64bit.
Is there a clean image of windows server that I can use?
I looked in dockerhub and saw some images that I can use like this one.
But I want to make sure I'm doing it right, Can I work with this image to install my app?
I believe the question that you are asking here is, what Windows Server base image should you use to create your new image from? This really depends on the requirements of the application that you are running in the container, but Microsoft has official base images for both Windows Server Core and Nano Server available on Docker Hub, the links are as follows:
Server Core base image - https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/windowsservercore/
Nano Server base image - https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/nanoserver/
Please also note that Microsoft have other images available which are based on the above images, such as one which includes ASP.Net Core ( https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/aspnetcore/ ) which may make a better base image for you, it really depends on the requirements of your application.
Finally - the full list of Microsoft provided images can be found at https://hub.docker.com/u/microsoft/
I hope the above is helpful.
So I'm playing around with this containers concept and specificlly windows containers.
I managed to run containers using the windows nanoserver image, however this image meant to services and does not support gui applications (or 32 bit apps).
Couldn't find any mentioning of running gui applications (and see there gui) using windows container (found only linux container gui).
is there a way to run GUI apps in containers? and so how do I can create my own image containing this support?
As per my knowledge, its impossible because docker does not allow rdp inside container
The nano server is not supporting GUI. That's why I cannot see how this should work if your base image for your container is a nano server
No, it is not possible on Windows regardless of image. It is a system limitation. As a last hope to get this somehow running I would try to install a VNC server inside a container and would try to connect to it from outside. This approach works for Linux-based containers. But I'm doubting that it will work on Windows.