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    Docker will only work in Linux as it leverages Linux kernel features (cgroups, lxc, etc). Commented Feb 14, 2016 at 22:49
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    @jordanm: why is there windows version then? What was the point of releasing it? Commented Feb 15, 2016 at 7:19
  • I see, they have replaced boot2docker with a system that allows the client-side docker command on Windows. The docker daemon and VMs run in a Linux virtual machine. Commented Feb 15, 2016 at 15:12
  • probably, I'm not sure. But the question is still open: there is an issue with cygwin and directory separators in windows Commented Feb 15, 2016 at 15:19
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    As an update for anyone coming across this question, I installed Docker on Windows 10 this week and it worked (e.g. docker version, docker run hello-world, docker run -d -p 80:80 --name webserver nginx) in Cygwin out of the box. Commented Apr 4, 2017 at 16:09