You might be interested in a technology Microsoft has developed called "Drawbridge" [0], which is essentially an implementation of a subset of the windows nt ke

You might be interested in a technology Microsoft has developed called "Drawbridge" [0], which is essentially an implementation of a subset of the windows nt kernel and system libraries in a userspace program. This software has already been used to deploy Microsoft SQL server on Linux -- essentially, when you install MSSQL for Linux, you're deploying a win32 unikernel. There's a repo on github which has explored tearing down this published example of drawbridge and playing with it. [1] The Microsoft page claims that "Drawbridge runs many existing Windows applications without modifications ranging from desktop applications like Microsoft Office 2010 and Internet Explorer to server applications like IIS". [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/ [1] https://github.com/thinkcz/DrawBridge https://github.com/thinkcz/DrawBridge