From ba7245f07271d5ccba70ef659b3e88424cf36887 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Bachmann Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 23:12:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Windows needs hardware virtualization VirtualBox needs hardware virtualization for 64-bit guests. Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Robert Bachmann (github: robertbachmann) --- docs/sources/installation/windows.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/sources/installation/windows.md b/docs/sources/installation/windows.md index 7cc2b991d1..9908c053d0 100644 --- a/docs/sources/installation/windows.md +++ b/docs/sources/installation/windows.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ page_keywords: Docker, Docker documentation, Windows, requirements, virtualbox, # Windows > **Note:** > Docker has been tested on Windows 7.1 and 8; it may also run on older versions. - +> Your processor needs to support hardware virtualization. The Docker Engine uses Linux-specific kernel features, so to run it on Windows we need to use a lightweight virtual machine (vm). You use the Windows Docker client to