[Openstack] Can I build Openstack cloud on windows7

Adam Lawson alawson at aqorn.com
Fri Nov 28 19:31:20 UTC 2014


I'd like to ask the obvious question... why are you doing this? Shoe horns
are technically possible with anything but I can't understand why anyone
would seek a non native approach when the standard approach is bring given
away for free.

No judgement, just wondering.

Mahalo,
Adam
On Nov 27, 2014 10:49 PM, "lucas.gary at gmail.com" <lucas.gary at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The original question asked (or at least seemed to me to be asking) if it
> was possible to run the openstack project on windows boxes.
>
> cloud.init seems to be a configuration agent for windows guests (which is
> awesome and thanks allot for the link)
> There are additional components for hosting a partially windows based
> cloud, (cinder plugin, neutron plug in, nova plug in for hyper-v)
>
> So some of the components appear to be available, but you'd still be
> missing most of the components, not to mention all the infrastructure that
> you'd need to hand roll...
>
> G
>
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:
>
>>  Have a look at http://www.cloudbase.it/. I suspect it would need to be
>> on Windows Server rather than Windows 7.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* lucas.gary at gmail.com [mailto:lucas.gary at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* 28 November 2014 07:09
>> *To:* kyawthu win
>> *Cc:* openstack
>> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Can I build Openstack cloud on windows7
>>
>>
>>
>> http://docs.openstack.org/
>>
>>
>>
>> Install guide only lists Linux flavors, however it's mostly python...  I
>> suppose it's possible in the same way that building your own helicopter is
>> possible...
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 9:47 PM, kyawthu win <ktwcs2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I would like to build private cloud using openstack on windows 7
>> insteads of Ubuntu 14.04.
>> Can I build?
>> If so, How to build?
>> Thanks!
>>
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