[Nfd-dev] Building NFD on Windows

[Junxiao Shi]

Hi Jeff

Windows Server 2008 contains Windows Services for UNIX.
There's a possibility of running NFD natively on Windows without major
changes to the code

If you haven't purchased the hardware, the CPU is likely to have VT-X
because every CPU produced in recently years support it.
So the alternate is to install a minimal Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox, expose
its TCP port, and make Windows applications connect to it.
The performance penalty due to virtualization is less than 5%.
Deployment cost isn't necessarily higher, because it could be automated.
(reference: BOINC VM jobs)

Yours, Junxiao
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