Wouldn't that sort of defeat the purpose of running it on Windows? That is to say, the reason you're running it on Windows so that you can use Windows servers.

Wouldn't that sort of defeat the purpose of running it on Windows? That is to say, the reason you're running it on Windows so that you can use Windows servers. Running Linux in a VM on your Windows server seems like the worst of all worlds: pay the premium to not have to deal with Linux, then deal with Linux anyway as well as the extra hassle of needing to manage a virtual machine.