Very very doubtful. You will not be able to run ELF (linux format) executables on windows any more than you'll ever be able to run PE (windows format) executables on Linux.
You'll have 2 hubs, the "windows hub" and the "linux hub".
You'll have 2 hubs, the "windows hub" and the "linux hub".
This is incorrect.
That said, it's true that Windows won't all of the sudden gain the ability to run ELF.
Running boot2docker on windows is sort of cheating in that it is a virtual machine running docker apps and this effort appears to be a native dockerd running on Windows. Thoughts?
From any machine, you should be able to `docker run` any application, and docker will be smart enough to find (or create!) the best place run it.
The base pieces of the lego are currently in flight in Docker proper to enable this, with great tools built around the Docker API for more advanced topics (like clustering and scheduling)
> Running boot2docker on windows is sort of cheating in that it is a virtual machine running docker apps and this effort appears to be a native dockerd running on Windows.
I wouldn't say it's cheating. If your target is all linux machines, you need a cheap, local, efficient way of developing and testing those applications. Boot2Docker is an option (but not the only one - you could use a cloud service, internal vm infra, etc. etc.)
Love the dialogue - keep it coming.
If you're running docker on windows and you try to run a linux container, it will magically start boot2docker and start your linux container inside that vm if you are running on a windows box.
Now if that is true, my question would be: How do you boot2windows for windows docker images when you can't freely distribute a windows vm?
As I think both being able to support both would be amazing, I don't see how it fits into the current scheme of things.
Maybe! Or you've used something like the new `docker hosts` feature, which could create a new instance for you on any infrastructure provider. Or you could be pointing to a boot2docker node, etc.
> Now if that is true, my question would be: How do you boot2windows for windows docker images when you can't freely distribute a windows vm?
I don't have a good answer for this, as we do not have a boot2windows product or announcement (I assume this is the opposite case, if you have a linux machine and want to run a windows image)
My guess instead is you'd be pointing to a set of infrastructure that can find (or create) Windows Docker Hosts and it would run there.
See https://github.com/bfirsh/docker/tree/host-management
There's also a relevant thread on the docker-dev mailing list
that sounds promising...