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Improve documentation for installing docker on Windows Home #191

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This is what the official docs have to say:

  • Hyper-V and Containers Windows features must be enabled.
  • The following hardware prerequisites are required to successfully run Client Hyper-V on Windows 10:
    • 64 bit processor with Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)
    • 4GB system RAM
    • BIOS-level hardware virtualization support must be enabled in the BIOS settings. For more information, see Virtualization.

Our test user has a "very late" build of Windows 10 Home: they went through the requirements trying to find out if they had SLAT. They added:

I couldn’t get the virtualization stuff to work either.

There were a series of more & more complex things for a simpleton like me to do with Hyper-V and Containers Windows. I also enabled WSL1 but didn’t get WSL2 to go.

I don’t know if I was close to getting it going, but each time I got something, I found there was another 2 levels to negotiate.

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