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How do you run Windows in a docker container. Isn't the point of docker containers that they share the kernel of the host system?
You don't. That comment was misinformed. No idea where they heard that from.
They might be thinking about Winboat, which, as I understand it, is basically running a VM in a container, and then running Windows in the VM.