# Does discourse support docker on windows?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-support-docker-on-windows/37577>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [January 7, 2016, 6:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-support-docker-on-windows/37577 "2016-01-07T06:46:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-support-docker-on-windows/37577/5 "2016-01-08T04:23:02Z")

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I think the way the windows one works is similar to mac, the client runs in windows but the docker server runs in a VM.

`launcher` uses tons of `bash` so you would not be able to run unless it had cygwin (which it seems to be mucking with)

Try it out and see if it works, I don’t know.

Worst case, you have a VM running docker anyway, so log in to it and run launcher there.

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