Run linux-docker-image on a Solaris machine, how?

Question

How do I run on solaris, a linux based docker-image (e.g nginx image)? I expect similar to running a nginx-image on windows machines.

e.g Can I have a virtualbox-linux in solaris-os, and then run docker run nginx? What are the ways?

Answer 1

I'm not sure about your question but maybe the --platform might help you

You can use it in the docker run command if your host is multi-platform capable https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/run/

--platform      Set platform if server is multi-platform capable

e.g.

docker run -d nginx --platform arm64 ...

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

There is currently no support for Docker on Solaris.

Docker containers rely on their hosts kernel, that's why Docker only works on linux systems or if the operating system provides a linux kernel. (WSL makes Docker work on Windows)