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I would like to achieve exactly what is on this video of OpenShift: https://youtu.be/Kx110kqoHo0 (Deploying a Windows virtual machine on OpenShift). However on the dashboard of my free OpenShift Starter account, I cannot find the sub-menu "Virtual Machine" under menu "Workloads", like shown in the video.

Can you please share with me some tips on how to run a Windows virtual machine (or alternatively a Ubuntu) on my free OpenShift Online environment? (unfortunately, I am not in the position of upgrading this account to a paid plan at the moment)

I would really appreciate your kind guidance and thank you very much for valuable time.

Youness Lahdili
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The feature you are looking for is called Container-native virtualization (CNV) and is not available on OpenShift Online at the moment. It is available in OpenShift Container Platform 4.4 as a Tech Preview.

Simon
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  • Thank you for this clarification, I see now. I guess I misunderstood the purpose of OpenShift Starter Plan, mainly due to this webpage: https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/best-free-cloud-hosting-services/ where it says "This Starter plan includes the most powerful virtual cloud instance on this list". In the meantime I learned that in reality, OpenShift Online is a multi-tenant environment without user accessible virtual machines or other cluster administrative aspects. If I want Windows virtualization, I need to deploy a cluster, which is not available on the OpenShift Online. – Youness Lahdili May 14 '20 at 14:24