Subject: Re: [vserver] Can Windows OS run on VServer?
From: Martin <inkubus@interalpha.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:47:28 +0100

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