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I have a Windows Server 2022 running on GCP. I've installed docker as described here: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers#docker_on_windows

Namely, I did this:

Install-Module -Name DockerMsftProvider -Repository PSGallery -Force
Install-Package -Name docker -ProviderName DockerMsftProvider
Restart-Computer -Force

However, when I try to run a linux image, I get

PS C:\Windows\system32> docker run busybox ls
Unable to find image 'busybox:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/busybox
docker: no matching manifest for windows/amd64 10.0.20348 in the manifest list entries.
See 'docker run --help'.

PS C:\Windows\system32> docker run --rm --platform linux alpine ls
Unable to find image 'alpine:latest' locally
docker: Error response from daemon: unsupported os linux.
See 'docker run --help'.

What am I doing wrong?

Edit. I can't enable hyper-V on GCP. My processor is Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.80GHz 2.80 GHz should't it allow nested virtualization

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Looks like I need to enable nested virtualization in gcp. For that, I need to set enableNestedVirtualization field to true. There are descriptions on how to do it with gcloud api, but no way I can get my customer to do that. Any way to do it either in the WebUI or the VPS itself?

Edit 2. Does this mean I can't run a linux docker container from Windows? Or is docker a special case?

L1 VMs have the following restrictions: You must run Linux-based OSes; you can't use Windows Server images.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/overview

iiiooo
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  • https://mountainss.wordpress.com/2022/05/28/running-ubuntu-and-debian-linux-distro-on-windows-server-2022-preview-with-wsl2/ – John Hanley Nov 01 '22 at 21:45
  • thank you! I just edited my original question, looks like nested virtualization needs to be enabled before I can run hyper-v? – iiiooo Nov 01 '22 at 23:21

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So, a few things about what you are trying to do:

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  • Is there a way to run Docker on Windows 11 without Docker Desktop? – iiiooo Nov 08 '22 at 02:17
  • Not that I know of. Can you please clarify the scenario? Why do you want to run containers without Docker Desktop on Windows? Is it because of the cost? In that case, you could look into https://mobyproject.org/. Moby is the open source project from which Docker builds on. It's free, and community led. – Vinicius Apolinario Nov 09 '22 at 17:33
  • Running older versions of Docker like 2.2 – Tajs Jan 31 '23 at 09:48