Apps Virtualization with OpenSource?

Mon Jul 4 00:15:15 UTC 2011

2011/7/3 Sam Sharpe <lists.redhat at samsharpe.net>

> On 3 July 2011 13:57, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 03:25:39 -0500,
> >  Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> As maybe I can't run a VM in all the computers that I might have access
> to
> >> and because Wine Can't Emulate some programs correctly, I Know the
> solution
> >> is using the cloud to carry my apps with me, I was wondering if there is
> a
> >> Free Service
> >
> >> (Better if it's opensource) to run my Windows apps from the server
> >> in my Linux Machines or if I can mount a server with free/opensource
> >> technologies that give me that option.
> >
> >> is it possible? What should I use?
> >
> > Have you taken a look at openshift (https://openshift.redhat.com/app/)?
>
> How exactly does that help? Running Windows is not one of the features
> of Red Hat's PaaS offering.
>
> To answer the OP's question, there is unlikely to be a free service
> that allows you to run Windows Apps in the Cloud, because they would
> have to pay Microsoft for the Windows licencing fees.
>
> There are many companies that will rent/sell you a Windows virtual
> machine, to which you could connect via Remote Desktop from Linux
> (tsclient/rdesktop will do it) and you could install your applications
> there - but checking my own employer's prices, it looks like that
> would cost you about $60 per month - mostly because they don't offer
> Windows 7 or XP - only Server 2008.
>
> Of course you could reduce that cost by not running it permanently (as
> they are usually billed hourly for the time the machine is running),
> but it's still going to cost money.
>
> --
> Sam
>

Ok, does someone know how can I mount a server for my propouse
in order to don't pay to a company and manage it myself?

Otherwhise I'll have to see how to pay for the service, I'm really
interested in that.

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