Hello everyone. First of all: Thank you everyone for the great job you did! We are happy to be part of this community and looking forward to continue working with you. B1 Systems is happy to announce the availability of OpenStack Essex packages for openSUSE 12.1 and SLES11 SP2 on the Open Build Service of openSUSE. You can find the packages in the project isv:B1-Systems:OpenStack:release:Essex (https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=isv:B1-Systems:OpenStack:release:Essex). The dependencies packages to install these packages are located in the project isv:B1-Systems:OpenStack:release:Essex:requirements (https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=isv:B1-Systems:OpenStack:release:Essex:requirements). For more details have a look at http://wiki.openstack.org/Packaging/SUSE. Please note that it's unfortunately not possible to run OpenStack on of SLES11 SP2 out of the box at the moment because of several not yet fixed issues in the delivered python interpreter. Please contact us using openstack at b1-systems.de to receive patched packages for the python interpreter usable with SLES11 SP2. SUSE is working on patches and we'll keep you informed when OpenStack is working on SLES11 SP2 without the need of patching the Python interpreter. Soon we will publish an updated version of our technical whitepaper of OpenStack Essex on of SLES 11 SP2 and openSUSE 12.1 in german language - which will be available at http://www.b1-systems.de/openstack. We'll provide an english version of the document in the future. If you have any trouble using the packages, if you need further support or if you're looking for enterprise support for OpenStack please don't hesitate to contact us at openstack at b1-systems.de. Regards, Christian. -- Christian Berendt Solution Architect Mail: berendt at b1-systems.de B1 Systems GmbH Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de GF: Ralph Dehner / Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537