Support for Windows Containers

[ksl28]

Feature request description

Based on this comment #18419 (comment) and also tested it, it seems that Podman does not support Windows Containers.
While many containers are based on an UNIX OS, we have several containers that are running Windows (Windows IIS, Powershell Universal on Windows, etc) - and more and more are coming.

This is a major blocker for us, and is preventing us from moving to Podman.

Suggest potential solution

Add support for Windows Containers

Have you considered any alternatives?

Use Docker - but thats not really an alternative :)

Additional context

No response

[Luap99]

Duplicate of #11809

If someone has serious motivation to port Podman then I think we are open to contributions but that would mean signing up for maintenance in the long term as well. This would be a lot of work and the core team is linux only has no interest in windows containers.

[ksl28]

Ohh! I was under the impression, that Podman / Docker executed the same type of command to run the container, with no knowledge of the OS in the container.

[vrothberg]

Converted to a discussion. As @Luap99 mentioned, there are no plans to support Windows container natively.