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Comment by Cu3PO42

Hey, I appreciate the reply!

> A windows binary that starts a Linux VM in which the container runs.

I'm afraid my wording was somewhat ambiguous here. I meant to ask "do you aim to wrap Windows apps in a single Windows binary", but I suppose you answered my question anyway. You want to distribute Linux applications to Windows users.

Running on Windows/macOS was also the context in which I meant to ask about filesystem mounts. I understand this is not something that's implemented yet, but I'm wondering about your goals. Things obviously get much trickier than they are on Linux. On Windows I'd probably include a Plan9 server for file sharing.

The much larger hurdle I see for Windows support is that I don't think you can setup virtualization without Admin privileges in the general case. If Hyper-V is not already present and enabled you'll need to install some hypervisor. Even QEMU needs Hyper-V for proper virtualization.

parent Cu3PO42 2 years ago

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