Latest Docker Desktop for Windows compatibility?

They should. I didn’t found information, how they supposedly will expose the host drives to the VM, but I think they will still use a SMB for that. So, WSL 2.0 is not better than Docker desktop with own Lightweight Linux VM.
I run the Docker desktop 2.2.0.3 with issues:

  • sometimes it stops working, the restart of Docker engine is solution
  • I have had to reset it to the factory default two or three times since update to this version
  • it can’t autoupdate itself to the next version. It’s simply doesn’t work. I forced to download a latest installer to update it.

I had not such issues on 2.1

Will update to the 2.2.0.5 and will see, how it’s proceed further.


Updated. The update was painful. It can’t install even with downloaded installer, because it was not able to finish the current running desktop and previous attempts to update itself.
Killed all processes of Docker desktop, shutdown the Docker VM in the Hyper-V (just shutdown, not remove) and finally updated to the 2.2.0.5. Proceed the hard reset to the factory defaults for any case.

Run the node as usual, the node is working and online.
However, I think I will have such problems with the next update too.


Update. I rolled back to 2.1.0.5, no more issues.

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