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Can you run a container of Windows on an x86 machine? The answer is no, and for the same reason it won’t work on ARM. A “container” is not a virtual machine, you can only run the same Linux executables you would on a normal Linux system.

That said, as another person commented, you can run Windows for ARM in a VM on an Apple M1.

You can run Windows For ARM on M1 Macs right now, I doubt you can get docker to do this without lots of manual effort.

Got a link to proof of this?

https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg766282... for the Qemu patches

and https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsins... for downloading the Windows build

Question, is there persistence with that? Or are changes lost once it is closed?

I've been using the ACVM app with. Windows 10 VMDK file. Changes are indeed persisted to the VMDK

No nested virtualisation present currently, as such no virtualization support provided to VMs, so on Windows on an M1 only WSL1 works. Docker Linux containers on Windows require WSL2 instead.

Docker Windows containers aren't available on arm64 Windows yet, but stay tuned...