# Open Guest Compute Service (opengcs) [](https://travis-ci.org/Microsoft/opengcs) Open Guest Compute Service is a Linux open source project to further the development of a production quality implementation of Linux Hyper-V container on Windows (LCOW). It's designed to run inside a custom Linux OS for supporting Linux container payload. # Getting Started [How to build GCS binaries](./docs/gcsbuildinstructions.md/) [How to build custom Linux OS images](./docs/customosbuildinstructions.md/) # Contributing This project has adopted the [Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct](https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct/). For more information see the [Code of Conduct FAQ](https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct/faq/) or contact [opencode@microsoft.com](mailto:opencode@microsoft.com) with any additional questions or comments.