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

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-discourse-on-a-non-virtual-machine/13677>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [March 12, 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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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-discourse-on-a-non-virtual-machine/13677/8 "2014-03-12T22:36:38Z")

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They’re both perfectly fine. Just skip the step in the installation of Docker where you install the 3.8 kernel, because that’s the first one with LXC.

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