Re: [vserver] Can Windows OS run on VServer?

From: Martin <inkubus_at_interalpha.co.uk>
Date: Mon 11 May 2009 - 12:47:28 BST
Message-Id: <1242042448.3766.453.camel@white.sevalidation.com>

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 10:29 +1000, Matt Paine wrote:
> Hi Stephen
>
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Can MS Windows, such as vista, server 2008, etc. run as guest on
> > VServer? TIA
> >
>
> Linux-VServer is an Operating System Virtualization technique. Basically
> it can run many OS guests, all on the same kernel. So if you can get
> Vista or Server 2008 to run on a linux 2.6 variant kernel, then I guess
> yes you can :)
>
> (although I suspect that to be more difficult than I suggested above).

Maybe if this project was a little more developed:

http://www.ring3k.org/

Alternatively, if there are only a few apps required then Wine would be
an obvious choice. Plus in the future ReactOS might be useable and will
likely be more emmeanable to virtualisation.

Cheers,
 - Martin
Received on Mon May 11 12:47:51 2009

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