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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">OpenStack uses libvirt as a driver, and the cpu_model and cpu_flags are the important configuration options in this case. More info here:
</span><a href="https://ask.cloudbase.it/question/1125/problem-booting-from-the-windows-2012-r2-image/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://ask.cloudbase.it/question/1125/problem-booting-from-the-windows-2012-r2-image/</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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:
</span><a href="https://github.com/openstack/cloudbase-init"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://github.com/openstack/cloudbase-init</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Windows Server 2003 is not supported anymore by MSFT:
<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-2003">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-2003</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">AFAIK, Windows 2003 instances can work on KVM and the Fedora VirtIO drivers for this OS are still being offered in the stable releases:
</span><a href="https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.126-2/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.126-2/</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Adrian Vladu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Tim Bell [</span><a href="mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">]
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<b>Sent:</b> luni, 3 aprilie 2017 14:13<br>
<b>To:</b> openstack-operators <</span><a href="mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack-operators] Can Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 be deployed on openstack kilo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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
</span><a href="https://openstack-in-production.blogspot.ch/2017/02/ostype-property-for-windows-images-on.html"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://openstack-in-production.blogspot.ch/2017/02/ostype-property-for-windows-images-on.html</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">"Van Leeuwen, Robert" <</span><a href="mailto:rovanleeuwen@ebay.com"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">rovanleeuwen@ebay.com</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, 3 April 2017 at 12:54<br>
<b>To: </b>Anwar Durrani <</span><a href="mailto:durrani.anwar@gmail.com"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">durrani.anwar@gmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">>, openstack-operators
<</span><a href="mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Openstack-operators] Can Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 be deployed on openstack kilo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hello,</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Its not really OpenStack related but it depends on your virtualization stack.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Assuming its OpenStack with KVM:</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status#Windows_Family"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status#Windows_Family</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Note that you might have some interesting times with the licensing.<br>
From what I have understood (I am not a license specialist so take this with a pile of salt):
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You must have a Windows (datacenter?) license per hypervisor that can potentially run Windows instances.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cheers,</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Robert</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Anwar Durrani <</span><a href="mailto:durrani.anwar@gmail.com"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">durrani.anwar@gmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, April 3, 2017 at 11:35 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>openstack-operators <</span><a href="mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Openstack-operators] Can Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 be deployed on openstack kilo</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666666">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 ?</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB">Thanks & regards,<br>
Anwar M. Durrani <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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