[Nfd-dev] Building NFD on Windows

[Alex Afanasyev]

Anybody wants to try docker for windows?  http://docs.docker.com/installation/windows/ <http://docs.docker.com/installation/windows/>

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Alex

> On Oct 31, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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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