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Final cut x premiere. Docker Desktop for Windows is the Community version of Docker for Microsoft Windows.You can download Docker Desktop for Windows from Docker Hub.
This page contains information on installing Docker Desktop on Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education. If you are looking for information about installing Docker Desktop on Windows 10 Home, see Install Docker Desktop on Windows Home.
By downloading Docker Desktop, you agree to the terms of the Docker Software End User License Agreement and the Docker Data Processing Agreement.
What to know before you install
System Requirements
Windows 10 64-bit: Pro, Enterprise, or Education (Build 17134 or later).
For Windows 10 Home, see Install Docker Desktop on Windows Home.
- Hyper-V and Containers Windows features must be enabled.
The following hardware prerequisites are required to successfully run ClientHyper-V on Windows 10:
- 64 bit processor with Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)
- 4GB system RAM
- BIOS-level hardware virtualization support must be enabled in theBIOS settings. For more information, seeVirtualization.
Note
Docker supports Docker Desktop on Windows for those versions of Windows 10 that are still within Microsoft's servicing timeline.
What's included in the installer
The Docker Desktop installation includes Docker Engine,Docker CLI client, Docker Compose,Notary,Kubernetes,and Credential Helper.
Containers and images created with Docker Desktop are shared between alluser accounts on machines where it is installed. This is because all Windowsaccounts use the same VM to build and run containers. Note that it is not possible to share containers and images between user accounts when using the Docker Desktop WSL 2 backend.
Nested virtualization scenarios, such as running Docker Desktop on aVMWare or Parallels instance might work, but there are no guarantees. Formore information, see Running Docker Desktop in nested virtualization scenarios.
About Windows containers
Looking for information on using Windows containers?
- Switch between Windows and Linux containersdescribes how you can toggle between Linux and Windows containers in Docker Desktop and points you to the tutorial mentioned above.
- Getting Started with Windows Containers (Lab)provides a tutorial on how to set up and run Windows containers on Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019. It shows you how to use a MusicStore applicationwith Windows containers.
- Docker Container Platform for Windows articles and blogposts on the Docker website.
Install Docker Desktop on Windows
Double-click Docker Desktop Installer.exe to run the installer.
If you haven't already downloaded the installer (
Docker Desktop Installer.exe), you can get it from Docker Hub. It typically downloads to yourDownloadsfolder, or you can run it from the recent downloads bar at the bottom of your web browser.When prompted, ensure the Enable Hyper-V Windows Features option is selected on the Configuration page.
Follow the instructions on the installation wizard to authorize the installer and proceed with the install.
When the installation is successful, click Close to complete the installation process.
If your admin account is different to your user account, you must add the user to the docker-users group. Run Computer Management as an administrator and navigate to Local Users and Groups > Groups > docker-users. Right-click to add the user to the group.Log out and log back in for the changes to take effect.
Start Docker Desktop
Docker Desktop does not start automatically after installation. To start Docker Desktop, search for Docker, and select Docker Desktop in the search results.
When the whale icon in the status bar stays steady, Docker Desktop is up-and-running, and is accessible from any terminal window.
If the whale icon is hidden in the Notifications area, click the up arrow on thetaskbar to show it. To learn more, see Docker Settings.
When the initialization is complete, Docker Desktop launches the onboarding tutorial. The tutorial includes a simple exercise to build an example Docker image, run it as a container, push and save the image to Docker Hub.
Congratulations! You are now successfully running Docker Desktop on Windows.
If you would like to rerun the tutorial, go to the Docker Desktop menu and select Learn.
Automatic updates
Starting with Docker Desktop 3.0.0, updates to Docker Desktop will be available automatically as delta updates from the previous version.
When an update is available, Docker Desktop automatically downloads it to your machine and displays an icon to indicate the availability of a newer version. All you need to do now is to click Update and restart from the Docker menu. This installs the latest update and restarts Docker Desktop for the changes to take effect.
Uninstall Docker Desktop
To uninstall Docker Desktop from your Windows machine:
- From the Windows Start menu, select Settings > Apps > Apps & features.
- Select Docker Desktop from the Apps & features list and then select Uninstall.
- Click Uninstall to confirm your selection.
Important
Uninstalling Docker Desktop destroys Docker containers, images, volumes, andother Docker related data local to the machine, and removes the files generatedby the application. Refer to the back up and restore datasection to learn how to preserve important data before uninstalling.
Where to go next
- Getting started introduces Docker Desktop for Windows.
- Get started with Docker is a tutorial that teaches you how todeploy a multi-service stack.
- Troubleshooting describes common problems, workarounds, andhow to get support.
- FAQs provides answers to frequently asked questions.
- Release notes lists component updates, new features, and improvements associated with Docker Desktop releases.
- Back up and restore data provides instructionson backing up and restoring data related to Docker.
Oracle's Secret: Windows Para-virtualized drivers for OCI available!
Is premiere pro better than after effects. UPDATE (May 9th): OCI now officially supports importing Windows VMs in paravirtualization mode! So you no longer have to lie about the operating system you are importing 🙂
When running Windows in a virtual machine you typically have 2 strategies. One is to pretend that windows is running on actual hardware. This means the virtualization layer presents the virtual machine with hardware that exists in the real world, for instance an Intel Pro 1000 network adapter. These devices are emulated to the VM. This emulation is CPU intensive for the hypervisor, as every network and disk I/O transaction needs to be translated from the emulated card to the actual physical network/storage controller.
The other strategy is using para-virtualized hardware. In this case the Virtual Machine is presented with hardware devices, that understand they are operating in a virtualization environment, these hardware components (using their paravirtualized drivers) can talk directly to the actual hardware. This means no expensive CPU translation is needed, giving this virtual machine much more performance.
When you are importing Microsoft Windows virtual machines from on-premise into OCI, you were doing this by using the emulated mode. But now you have the choice to also import your Windows virtual machines using para virtualization. Key is that before you import the virtual machine, you install the newly released para virtualized drivers for Windows into the VM. After that you can import the VM with para-virtualized hardware support!
A strange place, but welcome addition 🙂
So where can you find these Windows para-virtualized drivers for OCI? Well you need to go to the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud and search for 'Oracle Linux' ?!?!?! (NO APRIL FOOLS JOKE)
Select the 'DLP: Oracle Linux 7.6' option.
In this zip file you will find a small ISO file that will contain the drivers.
All you need to do, is to install the Oracle para-virtualized drivers in your Windows VM before you export the VM.
Shutdown your VM and it is now ready to export. You do not yet have to uninstall VMware tools, this can later be done when already running inside OCI.
When you have exported your VMDK file, you are ready to copy this to OCI. It first needs to be copied inside the object storage service, from there you can import it as a custom image. OCI support native importing VMDK files, so you do not need to convert your VMware virtual machine.
Vm Para Windows 8.1
If you are trying to upload your VM using the OCI Web UI, you will probably run into an issue. Using the web UI you can only upload files up to 2GB. You have several ways to solve this. You can for instance use cyber duck or my favorite way is to use the OCI CLI tool.
After you have uploaded the VMDK file, you can create a Pre-Authenticated Request for the file. This gives you a unique URL to can now be imported as a custom image.
While the PV drivers are available, the people who made the import function in the UI are clearly not aware of this yet. If you select the windows operating system, it will not give you the option to import as VM with para virtualized hardware, so just select your as OS Linux! and you are good to go. Select windows when importing and use the paravirtualization mode. It takes a few minutes to import. When that is done, you are ready to create a new Compute VM using this image.
Vm Para Windows 7
All that is left to do, is some cleaning up. You will no longer be needing VMware tools inside this image, so feel free to uninstall it.
More information about the para virtualized drivers here:
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/announcing-oracle-virtio-drivers-113-for-microsoft-windows
