From 4ce6204881bf97efdfde90b517171cdb19bebb6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Feyaz Baker <44121644+starbr3aker@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:59:38 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] doc: docker.md added Win10 instructions Added some steps I found useful while setting up with win10 --- docs/docker.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/docker.md b/docs/docker.md index ec03a39..308f364 100644 --- a/docs/docker.md +++ b/docs/docker.md @@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ Although WinApps supports using `QEMU+KVM+libvirt` as a backend for running Wind > [!IMPORTANT] > WinApps does __NOT__ officially support versions of Windows prior to Windows 10. Despite this, it may be possible to achieve a successful installation with some additional experimentation. If you find a way to achieve this, please share your solution through a pull request for the benefit of other users. +> Possible setup instructions for Windows 10: +> - 'Professional', 'Enterprise' or 'Server' editions of Windows are required to run RDP applications. Windows 'Home' will NOT suffice. It is recommended to download the ISO from a reputed source, as the built in downloader (default set to `tiny11` will take longer than it would to download from a browser/torrent. +> - It is recommended to edit the initial `compose.yaml` file to keep your required username and password from the beginning. +> - It is recommended to not use `sudo` to force commands to run. Add your user to the relevant permissions group wherever possible. + + ## `Docker` ### Installation @@ -23,6 +29,17 @@ It is also possible to specify the version of Windows you wish to install within Please refer to the [original GitHub repository](https://github.com/dockur/windows) for more information on additional configuration options. +> [!NOTE] +> If you want to undo all your changes and start from scratch, run the following. For `podman`, replace `docker` with `podman`. +> ```bash +> docker ps # verify if you have any dockers created +> docker rm -v -f $(docker ps -qa) # will remove all running dockers (EXERCISE CAUTION) +> docker container ls # see if you have any containers running +> docker container rm containerName # to remove any old containers +> docker volume ls # for old volumes. Docker will reuse old volumes which may have previous installations of windows +> docker volume rm volumeName +> ``` + ### Installing Windows You can initiate the Windows installation using `docker compose`. ```bash