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Are we allowed to install a desktop version of a OS (e.g. Windows, Ubuntu)?

Posted February 3, 2013 22.9k views
Is this possible? Then connect via VNC to the server? If not, can somebody recommend me a website that allows this?
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lewisgoddard February 3, 2013
You can install both Ubuntu (11.04, 12.04, 12.10) and Fedora (16 and 17) from the standard os images, and i believe running your own images is in the works.

You can then use VNC, or their own HTML5 Console.
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moisey February 5, 2013
We provide Desktop images as well which already have a full GUI installed and they are labelled as "Desktop".

Then you can use our HTML5 VNC console to gain access to the GUI from the control panel.
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santiago.026 February 20, 2013
And what about Windows, raiyu? You haven't answered.
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moisey February 20, 2013
We do not provide support for Windows servers and I dont think running some sort of virtualization inside of a virtual server to attempt to install Windows would work well.
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bennysin9527 May 12, 2013
Well that would be very slow,raiyu
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kamaln7 May 12, 2013
You can install Virtualbox and install Windows on it, however you would be capped to 1 core only.
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ihadp March 17, 2017

You can install Windows directly to your Droplet, see here - https://www.whatuptime.com/installing-microsoft-windows-onto-digitalocean-droplet/

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PaulElliot December 2, 2017
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