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Sure, you are correct, the image properties are a must when it comes to limiting the failure occurrence, by setting the "os_type=windows" glance image property.

I was focusing on the requirements to make it run in the first place - exposing the required kvm CPU flags (+cx8,+cx1 in case of win2012/win8 and +cx16,+lahf_lm,+3dnow for win10/2016/nano) and VirtIO drivers.

Thank you,
Adrian Vladu

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Gordon [mailto:sgordon at redhat.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 3, 2017 6:39 PM
To: Adrian Vladu <avladu at cloudbasesolutions.com>
Cc: openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] FW: Can Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 be deployed on openstack kilo

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrian Vladu" <avladu at cloudbasesolutions.com>
> To: openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
> Sent: Monday, April 3, 2017 7:50:01 AM
> Subject: [Openstack-operators] FW:  Can Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 
> and Windows Server 2008 be deployed on openstack kilo
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Windows 8 and Windows Server 2008 Standard can be deployed on 
> OpenStack with KVM (QEMU is not supported) as a hypervisor, if you 
> have the required Windows CPU flags exposed to the virtual machine. 
> “os-variant” is irrelevant in the OpenStack case, as this is a virt-install terminology.

I wouldn't go as far as to say this is irrelevant, in that you do still need to use the image properties (as covered in the blog Tim provided) to enable the Hyper-V enlightenment features that Libvirt/QEMU is able to support for Windows guests - which is in effect doing the same thing as using the equivalent os-variant values with virt-install.

-Steve

> OpenStack uses libvirt as a driver, and the cpu_model and cpu_flags 
> are the important configuration options in this case. More info here:
> https://ask.cloudbase.it/question/1125/problem-booting-from-the-window
> s-2012-r2-image/
> 
> On OpenStack, you can use Cloudbase-init as the provisioning agent for 
> the Windows instances in the same way you use cloud-init for the Linux ones:
> https://github.com/openstack/cloudbase-init
> 
> Windows Server 2003 is not supported anymore by MSFT:
> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-2003
> AFAIK, Windows 2003 instances can work on KVM and the Fedora VirtIO 
> drivers for this OS are still being offered in the stable releases:
> https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archi
> ve-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.126-2/
> 
> Thank you,
> Adrian Vladu
> From: Tim Bell [mailto:Tim.Bell at cern.ch]
> Sent: luni, 3 aprilie 2017 14:13
> To: openstack-operators
> <openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators at li
> sts.openstack.org>>
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] Can Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 
> and Windows Server 2008 be deployed on openstack kilo
> 
> The metadata settings on the images is important to inform KVM of the 
> guest operating system. We’ve put our experiences with a recent issue 
> at 
> https://openstack-in-production.blogspot.ch/2017/02/ostype-property-fo
> r-windows-images-on.html
> 
> Tim
> 
> From: "Van Leeuwen, Robert"
> <rovanleeuwen at ebay.com<mailto:rovanleeuwen at ebay.com>>
> Date: Monday, 3 April 2017 at 12:54
> To: Anwar Durrani 
> <durrani.anwar at gmail.com<mailto:durrani.anwar at gmail.com>>,
> openstack-operators
> <openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators at li
> sts.openstack.org>>
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] Can Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 
> and Windows Server 2008 be deployed on openstack kilo
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Its not really OpenStack related but it depends on your virtualization stack.
> Assuming its OpenStack with KVM:
> https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status#Windows_Family
> 
> Note that you might have some interesting times with the licensing.
> From what I have understood (I am not a license specialist so take 
> this with a pile of salt):
> You must have a Windows (datacenter?) license per hypervisor that can 
> potentially run Windows instances.
> 
> Cheers,
> Robert
> 
> 
> From: Anwar Durrani 
> <durrani.anwar at gmail.com<mailto:durrani.anwar at gmail.com>>
> Date: Monday, April 3, 2017 at 11:35 AM
> To: openstack-operators
> <openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators at li
> sts.openstack.org>>
> Subject: [Openstack-operators] Can Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 and 
> Windows Server 2008 be deployed on openstack kilo
> 
> Hi Team,
> 
> I am curious to know if Windows 8 Pro, Windows Server 2003 Std and 
> Windows Server 2008 Std can be deployed to openstack or not ? if Yes 
> then what would be os-variant for the same ?
> 
> --
> Thanks & regards,
> Anwar M. Durrani
> +91-9923205011
> 
> 
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