Running Rancher from Windows on Cloud

Hello,

I am going to have windows nodes for Rancher Cluster.

But all my VMs in the Cloud do not support VT-D, which preventing me from installing Docker.

Is there any solution to this please?

Who said you need VT-D?

Simple confirmation:

Longer explanation:

Hi Akito,

I am really glad to see a torchlight toward the target. But those two you quoted does not provide any method to operate the installation. So I googled “docker without hyper-v” and got some guide like running the old docker toolkit without hyper-v.

Still it notifies me that Virtualization is required.

Creating CA: C:\Users\Administrator.docker\machine\certs\ca.pem
Creating client certificate: C:\Users\Administrator.docker\machine\certs\cert.pem
Running pre-create checks…
Error with pre-create check: “This computer doesn’t have VT-X/AMD-v enabled. Enabling it in the BIOS is mandatory”
Looks like something went wrong in step ´Checking if machine default exists´… Press any key to continue…

Also some official answer said to have Virtualization mandatorily.

ok, it truly works now.

How did you manage to fix it?

If you really need to use Docker Desktop on Windows, you have to use Hyper-V and what comes with it, i.e. VT-x.
I had to bite the bullet on that, too. Basically, this kicks out VirtualBox out of the system.

Was very frustrated about it, but in the end it was not a bad choice. Docker desktop works well, is less hacky, than the previous version and Hyper-V works with all use cases I would have for VirtualBox, as well.

Did you just install the previous Docker Desktop based on VirtualBox or how did you manage to solve it?

Rancher could be run on Windows with Docker EE