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Running Windows builds and tests where Wine didn't work but ReactOS did? This might be motivated by Windows licensing regime. Licensing for Windows VM instance
by slrz 8y ago
Running Windows builds and tests where Wine didn't work but ReactOS did?
This might be motivated by Windows licensing regime. Licensing for Windows VM instances used to be super-painful, so people would try hard to avoid it.
IIRC, to run a Windows VM you were required to acquire Windows Datacenter licenses for every node capable of running that VM (at least that's what we were told). If you have a fleet of hypervisor nodes running Linux workloads, the licensing cost calculated for a single Windows VM was absolutely ridiculous.
I guess things are less insane today and you can just get a license for the guest OS, no matter whether it's running virtualized or bare metal?