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Hello,

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.

OpenStack uses libvirt as a driver, and the cpu_model and cpu_flags are the important configuration options in this case. More info here: https://ask.cloudbase.it/question/1125/problem-booting-from-the-windows-2012-r2-image/

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: https://github.com/openstack/cloudbase-init

Windows Server 2003 is not supported anymore by MSFT: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-2003
AFAIK, Windows 2003 instances can work on KVM and the Fedora VirtIO drivers for this OS are still being offered in the stable releases: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.126-2/

Thank you,
Adrian Vladu
From: Tim Bell [mailto:Tim.Bell at cern.ch]
Sent: luni, 3 aprilie 2017 14:13
To: openstack-operators <openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org>>
Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] Can Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 be deployed on openstack kilo

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 https://openstack-in-production.blogspot.ch/2017/02/ostype-property-for-windows-images-on.html

Tim

From: "Van Leeuwen, Robert" <rovanleeuwen at ebay.com<mailto:rovanleeuwen at ebay.com>>
Date: Monday, 3 April 2017 at 12:54
To: Anwar Durrani <durrani.anwar at gmail.com<mailto:durrani.anwar at gmail.com>>, openstack-operators <openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org>>
Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] Can Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 be deployed on openstack kilo

Hello,

Its not really OpenStack related but it depends on your virtualization stack.
Assuming its OpenStack with KVM:
https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status#Windows_Family

Note that you might have some interesting times with the licensing.
From what I have understood (I am not a license specialist so take this with a pile of salt):
You must have a Windows (datacenter?) license per hypervisor that can potentially run Windows instances.

Cheers,
Robert


From: Anwar Durrani <durrani.anwar at gmail.com<mailto:durrani.anwar at gmail.com>>
Date: Monday, April 3, 2017 at 11:35 AM
To: openstack-operators <openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org>>
Subject: [Openstack-operators] Can Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 be deployed on openstack kilo

Hi Team,

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 ?

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Thanks & regards,
Anwar M. Durrani
+91-9923205011

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