# Is it possible to develop for Doppler without Docker?

**URL:** <https://forum.dadamachines.com/t/is-it-possible-to-develop-for-doppler-without-docker/344>\
**Category:** FAQ / Support\
**Tags:** doppler\
**Created:** [October 3, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.dadamachines.com/t/is-it-possible-to-develop-for-doppler-without-docker/344 "2019-10-03T18:17:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![cunabula](https://forum.dadamachines.com/user_avatar/forum.dadamachines.com/cunabula/32/104_2.png) [@cunabula](https://forum.dadamachines.com/u/cunabula)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.dadamachines.com/t/is-it-possible-to-develop-for-doppler-without-docker/344/1 "2019-10-03T18:17:55Z")

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I’ve just ordered a Doppler and was in the process of following the instructions to set up my laptop ready for deliver when I hit a major hurdle:

Docker isn’t available for Windows 10 Home.

Is it possible to work with a Doppler without using Docker and if so does anyone have any pointers as to how to do so?

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**Author:** ![johannes](https://forum.dadamachines.com/user_avatar/forum.dadamachines.com/johannes/32/11_2.png) [@johannes](https://forum.dadamachines.com/u/johannes)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 7:47am UTC](https://forum.dadamachines.com/t/is-it-possible-to-develop-for-doppler-without-docker/344/2 "2019-10-04T07:47:22Z")

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Hi @cunabula,  
Windows 10 Home seems to be a bit of a challenge. The best way to go there is probably installing Linux as a virtual machine.  
Virtualbox is free anyway: [https://www.virtualbox.org](https://www.virtualbox.org/)

Here is an article of somebody doing that: [https://medium.com/@mbyfieldcameron/docker-on-windows-10-home-edition-c186c538dff3](https://medium.com/@mbyfieldcameron/docker-on-windows-10-home-edition-c186c538dff3)

A manual install of the tools needed for creating the bitstream seems kind of a challenge.

Another approach would be to run a remote machine in the cloud to create the bitstream images for the FPGA.  
For that digitalocean would be one option I think: [https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/docker](https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/docker)

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**Author:** ![cunabula](https://forum.dadamachines.com/user_avatar/forum.dadamachines.com/cunabula/32/104_2.png) [@cunabula](https://forum.dadamachines.com/u/cunabula)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.dadamachines.com/t/is-it-possible-to-develop-for-doppler-without-docker/344/3 "2019-10-04T10:04:21Z")

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Many thanks for the quick reply @johannes and for the links, I’ll go through them at the weekend. I have been toying with the idea of dual-booting Linux for a while (some other things I do would be better under Linux), this might finally give me the push I need 🙂