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

Posted February 3, 2013

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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PaulElliot • December 2, 2017

Windows 7x86 on digitalocean

ihadp • March 17, 2017

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

Kamal Nasser • May 12, 2013

You can install Virtualbox and install Windows on it, however you would be capped to 1 core only.

bennysin9527 • May 12, 2013

Well that would be very slow,raiyu

Moisey Uretsky • 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.

santiago.026 • February 20, 2013

And what about Windows, raiyu? You haven’t answered.

Moisey Uretsky • February 5, 2013

We provide Desktop images as well which already have a full GUI installed and they are labelled as “Desktop”. <br> <br>Then you can use our HTML5 VNC console to gain access to the GUI from the control panel.

Lewis Goddard • 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. <br> <br>You can then use VNC, or their own HTML5 Console.