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Hi,

Hyper and Boot2docker are two really distinct products.

The difference is, one (boot2docker) let you run containers on not compatible OSes, while the other one (Hyper) let you run each container, distinctly, in a dedicated VM.

Hope that helps :)

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Sorry, but I don't quite get it. What's the advantage over having a dedicated VM per container?

Speed and resources https://hyper.sh/why-hyper.html

Isolation, and security. As @mbreese perfectly said, "This type of tech could make it possible to use (Docker) containers in a true multi-tenant system." With Hyper, all your containers will run their own kernel, instead of sharing the host's one.

It sounds like the shit Microsoft was gibbering about a little while ago, about how they would integrate their HyperV technology into their docker runtime

Hmm, I happen to know some details of that. It is actually a quite powerful technology with some out-of-box ideas.

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