Docker Desktop requirements
Run Linux containers locally with Docker Desktop. Virtualization and OS features are mandatory.
windows requirements
- Operating system
- Supported 64-bit Windows 10/11 release
- Processor
- Hardware virtualization must be enabled
- Graphics
- No dedicated GPU requirement
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Available storage
- Not published
- Docker Desktop requires hardware virtualization and a supported backend such as WSL 2.
- Windows container support has edition-specific requirements; Linux containers work on more editions.
macos requirements
- Operating system
- Current or one of the two previous major macOS releases
- Processor
- Supported Intel or Apple Silicon Mac
- Graphics
- No dedicated GPU requirement
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Available storage
- Not published
- Docker supports the current and two previous major macOS releases.
- Rosetta 2 is recommended for some optional amd64 command-line tools on Apple Silicon.
linux requirements
- Operating system
- Supported Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, or Fedora release with systemd; QEMU 5.2+
- Processor
- 64-bit x86 CPU with virtualization and KVM support
- Graphics
- No dedicated GPU requirement
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Available storage
- Not published
- Docker Desktop for Linux requires KVM virtualization, a 64-bit kernel, QEMU 5.2+, systemd, and at least 4 GB RAM.
- Docker also provides Docker Engine separately; this profile is specifically for Docker Desktop.
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