<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Anybody wants to try docker for windows? <a href="http://docs.docker.com/installation/windows/" class="">http://docs.docker.com/installation/windows/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—--</div><div class="">Alex</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 31, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Junxiao Shi <<a href="mailto:shijunxiao@email.arizona.edu" class="">shijunxiao@email.arizona.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Jeff</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Windows Server 2008 contains Windows Services for UNIX.</div><div class="gmail_extra">There's a possibility of running NFD natively on Windows without major changes to the code</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">If you haven't purchased the hardware, the CPU is likely to have VT-X because every CPU produced in recently years support it.</div><div class="gmail_extra">So the alternate is to install a minimal Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox, expose its TCP port, and make Windows applications connect to it.</div><div class="gmail_extra">The performance penalty due to virtualization is less than 5%.</div><div class="gmail_extra">Deployment cost isn't necessarily higher, because it could be automated. (reference: BOINC VM jobs)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Yours, Junxiao</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div></body></html>