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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">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
<a href="https://openstack-in-production.blogspot.ch/2017/02/ostype-property-for-windows-images-on.html">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">"Van Leeuwen, Robert" <rovanleeuwen@ebay.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, 3 April 2017 at 12:54<br>
<b>To: </b>Anwar Durrani <durrani.anwar@gmail.com>, openstack-operators <openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org><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:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Hello,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Its not really OpenStack related but it depends on your virtualization stack.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><a href="https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status#Windows_Family">https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status#Windows_Family</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Note that you might have some interesting times with the licensing.<br>
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You must have a Windows (datacenter?) license per hypervisor that can potentially run Windows instances.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Cheers,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Anwar Durrani <durrani.anwar@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, April 3, 2017 at 11:35 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>openstack-operators <openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Openstack-operators] Can Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 be deployed on openstack kilo</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Thanks & regards,<br>
Anwar M. Durrani <o:p></o:p></p>
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