Kitematic: can't download microsoft blobs

[brian-douglas]

Expected behavior

sql 2014 downloads successfully

Actual behavior

"unknown blob" error

Information about the Issue

Steps to reproduce the behavior

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[FrenchBen]

Unless you're using Windows containers, you will not be able to use this image, per their documentation.

[brian-douglas]

I was trying to use Windows containers in Docker for Windows. Windows 10 anniv, not 2016 Server though.

[FrenchBen]

Docker for Windows runs linux containers by default - You need to manually enable Windows Containers as the feature.
Can you provide the output of:
docker version

[brian-douglas]

I figured it out. I think I had an old version that probably didn't support Windows containers. I upgraded to 1.13.0 and now it works. Thanks!

[jamesmanning]

@FrenchBen any chance the error message in this scenario could be improved? Looking at the closed issues, this seems to crop up for lots of people, and 'unknown blob' during the image download isn't very actionable. An error message stating that you need to enable Windows Containers would be great! 😄

[FrenchBen]

Unfortunately the error comes from Docker and not kitematic - We could do a find/replace, but I'm unsure if this would work as expected.

Ideally we should switch from hub.docker.com to https://store.docker.com since it allows to filter images by arch