jails Windows jail

Hello everybody. Has anyone tried to run Windows in jail without needing bhyve? In bhyve everything runs fine but for windows applications I need
 
Not possible. How do you think the Windows (kernel) API calls are going to be handled? The reason it works for Linux jails is because the FreeBSD kernel has a Linux compatibility layer. There is no Windows compatibility layer in the FreeBSD kernel (or OS).

Alternatively, you can use emulators/wine to run Windows applications. To a certain extent at least.
 
A FreeBSD jail(8) runs on top of the host's kernel. It doesn't have a kernel of its own. So a jail(8) can only run things the FreeBSD kernel understands. That's a very simplistic explanation.
 
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