Can rancher-desktop run as localsystem service on windows?

[CoenraadS]

Hello

I'm looking for a solution that will enable me to run Linux containers on Windows. However the containers should continue to run even if user logs off. We have another service running as localsystem which will depend on these containers, so I was wondering if I can run the containers as a localsystem service as well?

[jandubois]

No, this is not possible. Rancher Desktop runs the containers inside a WSL2 "distro", and WSL2 shuts down when the user logs out. You would need to run your containers in a Hyper-V virtual machine.