Sure, you are correct, the image properties are a must when it comes to limiting the failure occurrence, by setting the "os_type=windows" glance image property.
I was focusing on the requirements to make it run in the first place - exposing the required kvm CPU flags (+cx8,+cx1 in case of win2012/win8 and +cx16,+lahf_lm,+3dnow for win10/2016/nano) and VirtIO drivers. Thank you, Adrian Vladu -----Original Message----- From: Steve Gordon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 3, 2017 6:39 PM To: Adrian Vladu <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] FW: Can Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 be deployed on openstack kilo ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adrian Vladu" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, April 3, 2017 7:50:01 AM > Subject: [Openstack-operators] FW: Can Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 > and Windows Server 2008 be deployed on openstack kilo > > 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. I wouldn't go as far as to say this is irrelevant, in that you do still need to use the image properties (as covered in the blog Tim provided) to enable the Hyper-V enlightenment features that Libvirt/QEMU is able to support for Windows guests - which is in effect doing the same thing as using the equivalent os-variant values with virt-install. -Steve > 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-window > s-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/archi > ve-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.126-2/ > > Thank you, > Adrian Vladu > From: Tim Bell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: luni, 3 aprilie 2017 14:13 > To: openstack-operators > <[email protected]<mailto:openstack-operators@li > sts.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-fo > r-windows-images-on.html > > Tim > > From: "Van Leeuwen, Robert" > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Monday, 3 April 2017 at 12:54 > To: Anwar Durrani > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, > openstack-operators > <[email protected]<mailto:openstack-operators@li > sts.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 > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Monday, April 3, 2017 at 11:35 AM > To: openstack-operators > <[email protected]<mailto:openstack-operators@li > sts.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 ? > > -- > Thanks & regards, > Anwar M. Durrani > +91-9923205011 > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operator > s > -- Steve Gordon, Principal Product Manager, Red Hat OpenStack Platform _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
