Can I Use a Linux VPS with my Windows computer?

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Sep 16 2011, 11:07 pm
I have Windows 7 and dont want to switch, but it seems that the majority of help/guides for setting up a server are for Linux servers, so if i got a Linux VPS could i still use it with my windows comp?
Sep 16 2011, 11:51 pm
Of course you could, just set up a partition on your HDD and select which you want to boot from in your BIOS each time, obviously this means you couldn't have both of them running at the same time, but that's the drawback to partitioning I'm afraid.
Sep 17 2011, 1:33 am
In response to El Wookie
^ the above is not entirely correct, why could one not use a virtual server inside windows that has a *unix flavour on it?
Sep 17 2011, 1:34 am
In response to A.T.H.K
For server hosting? That would be ridiculously slow.
Sep 17 2011, 1:36 am
In response to El Wookie
Hardly.
Sep 17 2011, 2:49 am
In response to El Wookie
Not at all, the VM itself can get near "bare metal" speeds through Intel/AMD-VT and other neat tricks. The networking through-put would again still be bottlenecked on the ISP as with a "bare-metal" solution and latency added to this is measured mostly in the micro-seconds range.

I only really decided to chip in because the company I work for takes quad-core machines with 32 GB of RAM and divides them up into about 4 VMs per physical machine, to gain service-separation. Our through-put requirements I would say are far in excess of any BYOND server.
Sep 17 2011, 6:31 am
In response to A.T.H.K
Long story short I want to host a game, and I want to be able to use this computer to set up the VPS that I get for the server is that possible? if so any guides/tips?
Sep 17 2011, 12:30 pm
In response to ShatteredGenesis
ShatteredGenesis wrote:
Long story short I want to host a game, and I want to be able to use this computer to set up the VPS that I get for the server is that possible? if so any guides/tips?

That really doesn't make sense... Are you buying a vps or going to install it via vmware (or other virtual machine software) on your home pc?

Sounds like you really don't have a clue about *nix systems I would suggest an easy to you vps/host like http://Byondpanel.com
Sep 19 2011, 12:43 pm
In response to A.T.H.K
He's installing Linux in order to use his computer as a VM(As I understand). You could use a Linux OS disk and simply boot the computer off of that, but I'm not sure whether you can run W7 simultaneously using that method. It might be the only way you can run them both, I don't know, I've never tried something like that before, but it certainly is possible with a multi-core machine.