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John Gossman from Microsoft here. Windows Server containers use the approach sometimes called Operating System Virtualization, just like Linux containers, Jails, etc.. The Wikipedia article is a pretty good summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system%E2%80%93level_...

They are process based. They do not depend on HyperV and can run on Windows Server on bare metal or inside any hypervisor or cloud.

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Can you compare this to AppV?

I'll take a stab at it (no relation to Microsoft). As described in the following link, App-V does streaming of client app code from a server, appears very client-oriented. The technology behind it might not be, though: http://blogs.technet.com/b/gladiatormsft/archive/2013/11/05/... (describes the registry key with exceptions to the underlying namespacing of handles, I think?) This appears to be called Named Kernel Object Virtualization (a.k.a. the VObjects Subsystem) from the title of the post. But again, client-side oriented. I expect Docker integration to be server-side oriented code for this. Oh and if anyone's saying Microsoft's late to the party, there have been similar attempts on Windows platforms since at least 2006 using such techniques: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/vee06/full_papers/p24-y...

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