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Frequently Asked Questions and other problems and issues that have come up.

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High-level questions

Why would I choose VirtualBox over docker? Why would I choose docker over VirtualBox?

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Docker

Docker downloads container but never launches environment

This is an issue with newer OSs on your local laptop/desktop running older OSs in the container.

For example, suppose you are following the Running CMS analysis code using Docker tutorial. If you run

docker run --name opendata -it cmsopendata/cmssw_5_3_32 /bin/bash

and the container downloads but you don't find yourself in the CMSSW_5_3_32 environment, then...

Data

CMSSW