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Thank you very much, Sean!! Your reply is constructive.
Sofi


On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 6:20 PM Sean Mooney <smooney at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 01:36 +0500, Ramsha Azeemi wrote:
>
> Thanks, I'll check them out.
>
>
> for what its worth i personally used windows as my devepmetn clinet
> system and connect to a remove linux system to run openstack on for most
> of the
> time i contributed to openstack.
>
> one thing i found useful was to use cygwin on windows to provide a linux
> like environment. that allow my to git clone the repos and in many case was
> enought to allow me to run unitests, pep8 style check or docs envs locally
> on windows.
>
> the linux subsystem for windows will similarly help.
>
> openstack does use a number of c module that may or may not be available
> on windows
> python distobutions so core service like nova often do not work in there
> entirity but
> you will find that most of the command line client or webservices,
> espcally any of the web
> service that can run under wsgi will actully work on windows.
>
>
> with all of that said if you want to deploy and run openstack with
> devstack or other tools
> you will be best served by spingnin up a linux vm with hyperv or virtual
> box and sshing into that
>
>
> in our upstream ci we typically use 8G vms with ~8 cpus and 50G of storage
> but you can actully reduce the
> diskspace down to about 20G and its typeicaly fine for development. the
> extra storage in the ci is for logs and
> to allow testing ot the storage services of opesntack.
>
> anyway the point i wanted to make is often you can make small change to
> openstack on windows
> without needing linux but your milage may vary and most development will
> typically be eaiser on linux
> but its not required for everything.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 1:02 AM Sofia Enriquez <senrique at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
> Welcome, Ramsha!
>
> You always can use a Virtual Machine (VM) on Windows. I personally use
> Fedora, but you can use any distribution.
>
>    1. First, I recommend you to read about Devstack [1] (It's a series of
>    scripts used to quickly bring up a complete OpenStack environment)
>    2. Try to follow the guide [1] and install Devstack on the host
>    machine.
>    3. Read the [2] developers guide.
>
> Maybe this guide is old but could help you [3].
>
> Let me know if you have any questions!
> Sofi
>
> [1] https://docs.openstack.org/devstack/latest/
> [2] https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html
> [3]
> https://enriquetaso.wordpress.com/2016/05/07/installing-devstack-on-a-vagrant-virtual-machine/
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 7:36 AM Ramsha Azeemi <ramshaazeemi2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>  hi! i am windows user is it necessary to be a linux ubuntu user for
> contribution in openstack projects.
>
>
>
>
>

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