Docker run of a windows container image fails with "docker: error response from daemon: hcsshim::CreateComputerSystem e1................8454: The container operating systems does not match the host operating system

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Environment

  • OpenShift Container Platform 4.6+

Issue

Customer is unable to run windows containers and is getting the following error:
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docker: error response from daemon: hcsshim::CreateComputerSystem e1................8454: The container operating systems does not match the host operating system
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Resolution

  • Ensure that the container base image is of the same Windows OS version and build number that is running on the node.

  • An example Scenario is given below. Here the build number is 19042

OCP windows node version: 10.0.19042.1706
Failed container os version: 10.0.14393.5192
Successful container os version: 10.0.19042.1766

Root Cause

Incompatibility between the Image and node operating systems

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