Does this allow for a docker image to be run inside a browser tab?

pas · on June 14, 2019

Naturally. With this and a bit of hacking: https://bellard.org/jslinux/

ph0rque · on June 14, 2019

Forgive my lack of technical depth, but is it actually running client-side, in the memory allocated to my newly-opened browser tab, or on bellard.org's server and syncing the input/output to my browser?

lioeters · on June 14, 2019

The virtual machine (emulated CPU, devices) and the OS are running fully client-side:

https://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html

wazoox · on June 14, 2019

It's a real VM running in your browser, in Javascript.

cbluth · on June 14, 2019

Technical depth? Did you click the link?

> Run Linux or other Operating Systems in your browser!

It runs in your browser.

If you clicked the link you would also see demo links that run in your browser.

pas · on June 14, 2019

No need to be abrasive, many companies offer things "in your browser" yet they merely send you the frontend and instruct your browser to connect to their backend.

Such as gaming SaaS thingies.