Hi, I am not a Windows expert, but I believe what you are asking is not possible. Containers largely use a command-line interface, and are Linux based (even podman on Windows). There is no "screen" by default, so you'd need to use some kind of framebuffer, which would likely make debugging your tests very difficult. At a minimum you'd be jumping through a LOT of hoops to pull something like this off with containers. So much so, it would likely erase all the benefits. Can you update to Windows 11, then use a Windows 10 VM for the tests? Another thing, have you considered Windows 10 LTSC? If I remember correctly, that extends support out to 2032 or longer and is intended for these types of workloads. --- Chris Evich (he/him) Senior Software Maintenance Engineer If there's a "hard-way", I'm the first one to implement it :D On 8/12/25 6:34 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:

Hello,

We produce software, written in Java and JS which runs in the library in tomcat and the enduser later manages it with a browser. Automated tests of this part of software are driven by Jenkins jobs which trigger in some Windows 10 machine the automated launch of a browser and some piece of software carries out the "use" of the software in the browser as a human being would do it, based on a scripting language. So far the picture, now to podman.

The problem is, that the software which allows this scripting of the "use" is only available for Windows 10. And with the EOL of Windows 10 we're asked to decommission this machine.

So the question is: Does podman allows the setup and use of Windows 10 and are there any containers to download and start from with the

FROM ...

statement in the Dockerfile?

Thanks in advance

matthias