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Hi Jon,

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Jonathan Proulx <jon at jonproulx.com> wrote:

> It would be nice to do per project flavors, wouldn't it...
>
> Currently all our cloud hardware is homogeneous so we divide available
> resources into proportional chunks, so mcuh memory and ephemeral disk
> (provided from node local storage) per vCPU.  It's rather simplistic and
> still heavily influenced by the default flavors (all have a 10G root with
> the rest of the block storage  as an ephemeral vdb)
>
> We do have one flavor with a 40G root named "m1.windows" but don't provide
> a public windows image and as far as I know noone but administrators in my
> group have used it for testing (not a big windows demand here).
>

Interesting. We had a "w1.large" flavor for a short period but ended up
removing it because we wanted all flavors to be able to work with all
images.


>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Joe Topjian <joe.topjian at cybera.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Boot from Volume might be a possibility, but does anyone have a procedure
>> to create a Windows bootable volume?
>>
>>
> With the large caveat that I don't have any Windows instances I do have a
> thought on where I'd start, given there's been no other response (on list
> anyway)
>
> 1st cinder is meant to be able to create volumes based on glance images
> (--image-id <image-id>), which would be delightful, but hasn't worked for
> me and I haven't had a chance to look at why, so unsure if this is a local
> issue for me or a bug.
>

Thanks for the tip. I'm going to give this a shot.


>
> Failing that I'd create the volume in cinder then attach it directly to a
> linux host somewhere and either run the install directly using appropriate
> virtualization tools or grab an existing windows image from glance (either
> just by grabbing the file or using glance image-download depending on your
> setup)
>
> -Jon
>



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Joe Topjian
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