Running tests on Windows via Jenkins ?

[Nate Klingenstein]

>> How important is it to us to run unit tests on Windows ?
> 
> If it weren't for the fact that my Parallels VM no longer runs in less
> than glacial time on my primary laptop, I'd run them pretty routinely.

Internet2 didn't offer anything yet, but Windows Server 2012 (and R2) are available on AWS.  There's also Windows Azure.

>> I have been thinking at some point we would want a Windows VM
>> somewhere that runs as a Jenkins slave, but that's probably a bunch of
>> work.
> 
> I don't know that we even can unless we host on a physical machine. Unless
> Intel chips have really advanced, you can't run a VM under a VM, can you?

I have no visibility on how hard or easy Jenkins is, but I do know that Xen is used for AWS and it can do some pretty neat things.