# Dev Containers cannot connect to alpine container in cursor **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [February 10, 2025, 9:45am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/dev-containers-cannot-connect-to-alpine-container-in-cursor/49601 "2025-02-10T09:45:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nigiwen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/nigiwen/32/17706_2.png) [@nigiwen](https://forum.cursor.com/u/nigiwen)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 9:45am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/dev-containers-cannot-connect-to-alpine-container-in-cursor/49601/1 "2025-02-10T09:45:24Z")
### As far as I know, only alpine ```bash [2311 ms] Failed to download VS Code Server (https://cursor.blob.core.windows.net/remote-releases/5af2d34c39df93a39bd54c9b9103cab514b380f0/vscode-reh-linux-alpine.tar.gz): HTTP 404 - The specified blob does not exist. [2312 ms] Retrying to download VS Code Server. [2568 ms] Error: Server returned 404 at BI (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Users/BSI/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:667:62034) at _Wt.download (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Users/BSI/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:2925:30901) ``` ---
**Author:** ![danperks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/danperks/32/19087_2.png) [@danperks](https://forum.cursor.com/u/danperks)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/dev-containers-cannot-connect-to-alpine-container-in-cursor/49601/2 "2025-02-19T22:48:04Z")
Try uninstalling and reinstalling the Dev Containers extension - this might resolve the download issues you’re seeing, as it will make sure the right version for Cursor is downloaded (vs an incompatible version from a VSCode import). If that doesn’t work, Alpine containers might not be fully supported in Cursor right now. You could try using a different base image like Ubuntu or Debian instead ---
**Author:** ![agamemnonc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@agamemnonc](https://forum.cursor.com/u/agamemnonc)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/dev-containers-cannot-connect-to-alpine-container-in-cursor/49601/3 "2025-03-05T13:56:41Z")
Same issue here, uninstalling & reinstalling Dev Containers extension did not work for me. Changing base image to slim did the trick for me. ---
**Author:** ![andrii-cherniuk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/andrii-cherniuk/32/36448_2.png) [@andrii-cherniuk](https://forum.cursor.com/u/andrii-cherniuk)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/dev-containers-cannot-connect-to-alpine-container-in-cursor/49601/4 "2025-03-14T18:25:56Z")
I can confirm that the problem refers to Alpine containers. After I changed the base image to slim, everything worked fine. Extension reinstalling didn’t work out for me either. ---
**Author:** ![nigiwen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/nigiwen/32/17706_2.png) [@nigiwen](https://forum.cursor.com/u/nigiwen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/dev-containers-cannot-connect-to-alpine-container-in-cursor/49601/5 "2025-04-09T03:54:50Z")
I don’t think it’s too difficult to fix this, alpine container is very common ---
**Author:** ![Dhenyson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/dhenyson/32/48389_2.png) [@Dhenyson](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Dhenyson)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/dev-containers-cannot-connect-to-alpine-container-in-cursor/49601/6 "2025-04-19T19:46:21Z")
Change “alpine” to “slim” is not a solution. Its work, is a “Workaround”, “quick and dirty”, “bad-aid solution”… but is not a solution ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ravirahman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/ravirahman/32/20386_2.png) [@ravirahman](https://forum.cursor.com/u/ravirahman)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 4:51am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/dev-containers-cannot-connect-to-alpine-container-in-cursor/49601/7 "2025-05-19T04:51:14Z")
Hi! Wanted to share that we just added support for Alpine Linux remote hosts. You will need: - Cursor v0.50.5 or greater - The latest version of the Anysphere Remote Extension - Dev Containers (`anysphere.remote-containers`) v0.0.12 or greater, or - Remote SSH (`anysphere.remote-ssh`) v0.0.34 or greater - Inside your Alpine remote host: - `bash` - `libstdc++` - `wget` - `openssh` (SSH only, not required for docker), with TCP Forwarding enabled (set `AllowTCPForwarding yes` inside `/etc/ssh/sshd_config`) Support for Alpine remote hosts is in beta. Please let us know if you run into any issues with the setup. Thanks!