Linux and Windows event more love with containers (LCOW)

I have noticed "Linux containers on Windows built with LinuxKit" (LCOW)  a while back. Today I found a blog post from briantweet actually running a Windows and Linux container together.
There are a few steps that you need to follow to get things working though.

1. You need to be working on a later release of docker (at least 18.03 I believe)
2. Switch to windows containers:
   
3. and have the experimental features enabled :
   
4. You need to then install the LinuxKit on your machine, which is luckily fairly simple:
1. Download the latest release
2. Run an elevated powershell prompt and execute the following:
   Remove-Item "$env:ProgramFiles\Linux Containers" -Force -Recurse
Expand-Archive release.zip -DestinationPath "$Env:ProgramFiles\Linux Containers\."
5. Now, the first thing I tried was to run the MS-SQL container on Linux (as did brian) and we both ran into the same memory issue. It is a bit hairy to fix, and you may not even need to do this depending on what you are trying to run, but just in case:
1. We need to recompile the docker deamon. Luckily there are steps to do exactly that, in a docker container. Brian explains it quite well, but missed a few steps that I will fill in:
1. You will find the client_local_windows.go file in the libcontainerd directory under the root of the docker source code
2. You will need to find the configuration := &hcsshim.ContainerConfig{
HvPartition: true,
Name: id,
SystemType: "container",
ContainerType: "linux",
Owner: defaultOwner,
TerminateOnLastHandleClosed: true,
} section, round about line 360. Then insert the MemoryMaximumInMB: 4096, in that config
3. When running step 4 (from the steps) to build the images, add the "-m 2GB" arg., else you will have an "out of memory" error
4. Finally, only copy over the "dockerd.exe" file to the original docker install folder under the resources directory. On my machine : C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources

This allowed me to run both the Linux ms-sql image and a windows based dotnet sample image together..

Magic!