Watch Nicolai Ort and Tobias Schneck's talk at ContainerDays Hamburg 2026
Platform engineering has transformed how teams deliver services, but one category is often left out: traditional Windows-based services and VMs. Most large enterprises still run Windows VMs for specialized services, testing environments, or Windows Terminal Servers. KubeVirt is stable and widely used for Linux workloads, such as virtual Kubernetes workers. Windows support, however, has been a niche topic that received little attention. In this talk, Nicolai Ort and Tobias Schneck give an up-to-date look at Windows on KubeVirt. They cover what works today and what is still missing, and they answer the central question: is KubeVirt’s Windows support good enough to be a real alternative to your current hypervisor or to certain cloud offerings?
Key Takeaways:
- Windows on KubeVirt Today: An honest overview of the current state of Windows workload support, including the capabilities that are production-ready and the gaps that remain.
- Platform Services for Every Workload: How to bring Windows VMs into a platform engineering model instead of leaving them outside it.
- Hypervisor Alternatives: What enterprises should evaluate before replacing existing hypervisors or moving away from cloud offerings with KubeVirt.
Speakers: Tobias Schneck, Principal Architect at Kubermatic & Nicolai Ort, Cloud Platform Engineer at ODIT
