# Pros and cons of installing Discourse on a NON-virtual machine?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
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**Created:** [12 Marzo 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-discourse-on-a-non-virtual-machine/13677 "2014-03-12T20:24:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [12 Marzo 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-discourse-on-a-non-virtual-machine/13677/2 "2014-03-12T20:40:13Z")

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The advantage of using the Docker install is basically that the environment is guaranteed to be correct. This greatly simplifies the support tasks.

Here’s an entry on the Gentoo wiki explaining the basics of the container system:

> **[LXC - Gentoo wiki](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LXC#Virtualization_concepts)**

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