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      I believe so as long as your VM has an IP address reachable by the devices you want to use it for.

      I’m not sure if you’d want to employ it as your DHCP server though. You may get a chicken and the egg problem there.

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      It was originally developed to run on a raspberry pi so most installers are Linux based. There is no installer for windows but you could run pinole on Docker Desktop in a VM.

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        If you’re running it using Docker, that’s a container not a VM. And that IS the way you would want to run it, in a container. They’re easy to set up, easy to use, and easy to maintain.

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          I meant you could run pihole as a container in docker on a windows VM if you really wanted to. Personally I run it on a docker instance and also on a dedicated LinuxVM on a seperate host for redundancy, but that’s probably overkill.

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          Yeah but Docker Desktop uses a VM, either in WSL2 or Hyper-V. Docker Engine on Linux doesn’t use a VM and that’s what’s typically used for hosting services.

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            The way, what was stated, was stated, indicated that docker runs virtual machines. It doesn’t. It runs containers, right?

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              Docker is a container platform. Docker Engine is the container host for Linux and Docker Desktop uses a virtual machine to run Docker Engine and containers in that VM.

              For example, if you use Docker Desktop on Windows, Docker Desktop will run Docker Engine in a WSL2-based VM and then run containers inside that.

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                First, stop talking to me like I don’t know this already. Second, these facts don’t make me wrong or you right. The implication of what was said is that you run VM’s on docker. The fact is, you don’t. Stop arguing.

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                  can you run pihole in VM? it would be practical for these weirdos that already use VM as a daily driver

                  Ok, so what I was trying to say was this…

                  Dude does most of their work out of a VM rather than the host, and asks if they can also run pihole in that VM. I was trying to say “yeah, but it’s a Linux app so either run docker from within the VM itself and run it as a container or spin up another separate VM”

                  But I agree. Not argument-worthy. There’s no grounds for ackchyually-ing here.