Since the comment you were responding to has been deleted, I'm not sure if my comment will clarify anything for you. But it is possible, so here goes: > Wait,

Since the comment you were responding to has been deleted, I'm not sure if my comment will clarify anything for you. But it is possible, so here goes: > Wait, Microsoft is distributing and loading GPL'ed kernel modules for windows? A few years ago, the Linux kernel project accepted several patches from Microsoft that were meant to make it easier to run Linux in a VM hosted on a Windows machine ( http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2011/07/14/#microsoft-linux-author http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2011/07/14/#microsoft-linux-aut... ).