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01-25-2018

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Hi,

I think OpenVZ 7 (the latest release) does support Windows, though only running in a KVM VM and not in a container. OpenVZ 7 added the option to create VMs that was previously only available in Virtuozzo, and so you can create containers for Linux guests and VMs for all non-Linux guests on OpenVZ 7 (or you should be able to at least, according to the documentation I can see). So if you're familiar with OpenVZ, then OpenVZ 7 is probably the best way to go, since you can use both containers and full-blown real VMs on the same host.

However, if the issue here is that you are actually wanting to make day-to-day use of your own PC whilst being able to run containers and VMs on it (which I think might be what your comments about SmartOS imply), then your options are a bit more limited. Things like OpenVZ/SmartOS/ESX are meant to run on a dedicated server that does nothing but host containers and VMs. You then connect remotely to those containers and VMs to use them in whatever way you see fit (SSH, rdesktop, etc), and can also connect remotely to the hardware node to manage it.

If you're looking to be setting up VMs or containers on your own PC, then running a normal desktop-oriented Linux distro locally and using KVM/QEMU to run VMs on it might be a good way forward. Similarly you could run Windows 10 or Windows Server locally and add the Hyper-V role, and create VMs that way whilst still having a usable "real" desktop OS too. Or just use VirtualBox or something like that if your needs are simpler.

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systemd-detect-virt

SYSTEMD-DETECT-VIRT(1)						systemd-detect-virt					    SYSTEMD-DETECT-VIRT(1)

NAME

       systemd-detect-virt - Detect execution in a virtualized environment

SYNOPSIS

       systemd-detect-virt [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION

       systemd-detect-virt detects execution in a virtualized environment. It identifies the virtualization technology and can distinguish full VM
       virtualization from container virtualization.

       When executed without --quiet will print a short identifier for the detected virtualization technology. The following technologies are
       currently identified: qemu, kvm, vmware, microsoft, oracle, xen, bochs, chroot, uml, openvz, lxc, lxc-libvirt, systemd-nspawn.

       If multiple virtualization solutions are used, only the "innermost" is detected and identified. That means if both VM virtualization and
       container virtualization are used in conjunction, only the latter will be identified (unless --vm is passed).

OPTIONS

       The following options are understood:

       -h, --help
	   Prints a short help text and exits.

       --version
	   Prints a short version string and exits.

       -c, --container
	   Only detects container virtualization (i.e. shared kernel virtualization).

       -v, --vm
	   Only detects VM virtualization (i.e. full hardware virtualization).

       -q, --quiet
	   Suppress output of the virtualization technology identifier.

EXIT STATUS

       If a virtualization technology is detected, 0 is returned, a non-zero code otherwise.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1)

systemd 208														    SYSTEMD-DETECT-VIRT(1)