Greetings, Tim! Took a quick stab, answers/comments in-line. Cheers,
Wayne On 1/28/12 2:34 PM, "Tim Bell" <tim.b...@cern.ch> wrote: > >With the Hyper-V support being phased out, I would be interested to >understand: > >- What hypervisors are being used for running Windows guests (both >Windows 7 >and Windows Server) on top of OpenStack ? The quick and dirty answer is KVM, and somewhere along the lines we'll see Citrix XenServer join the race (hopefully sooner rather than later :)). Plug for XenServer: http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServerDevelopment -- maybe Ewan/Anne has an update for when we'll see full blown XenServer+OpenStack install guides? >- To what extent will Microsoft support problems reported with a Windows >guest running on a non-Microsoft hypervisor ? I think this is a much harder question to answer, as in the past (http://www.redhat.com/promo/svvp) there has been a reciprocal agreement between RedHat and MS to support each others efforts on their own respective virtualization platforms. Seeing that a) Ubuntu+KVM/libvirt is the current standard, and b) RedHat is not actively participating in the OpenStack community it leaves us with a big question mark. Any companies out there that are running KVM clouds w/ Windows care to address this? Do you have customers that want to know how upstream KVM issues are handled? Citrix and Microsoft on the other hand have a fairly long standing partnership, so anything MS products running on XenServer should see a clear escalation path I'd think. >- Are there other sites who are affected by this proposal who would be >willing to invest effort to maintain the Hyper-V support ? Is there a group that has taken ownership of this? I know that Jordan Rinke (Rackspace), Alex Landman and Peter Pouliot (Novell MS Interop Lab @ SUSE) spent a lot of time on Hyper-V in the Bexar/Cactus releases. They made pretty significant strides in that period, but the progress has since subsided. With the latest movement in the Hyper-V arena, especially around them trying to get full Ubuntu and Debian support in there, does that mean it's less and less likely MS will support their products or competing HV's? > >Tim Bell >CERN > >-----Original Message----- >From: openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern...@lists.launchpad.net >[mailto:openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern...@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf >Of >Sandy Walsh >Sent: 27 January 2012 16:45 >To: Thierry Carrez; openstack@lists.launchpad.net >Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting > >I'll be taking the existing Zones code out of API and Distributed >Scheduler. >The new Zones infrastructure is an optional component. > >-S >________________________________________ >From: openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace....@lists.launchpad.net >[openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace....@lists.launchpad.net] on >behalf >of Thierry Carrez [thie...@openstack.org] >Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 11:23 AM >To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net >Subject: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting > >Just as Nova enters feature freeze, it sounds like a good moment to >consider >removing deprecated, known-buggy-and-unmaintained or useless feature code >from the Essex tree. > >Here are my suggestions for removal: > >- Ajaxterm (unmaintained, security issues, replaced by VNC console) >- Hyper-V support (known broken and unmaintained) > >I'm sure that everyone has suggestions on other dead wood that we should >cut >now rather than ship in Essex... please comment. > >-- >Thierry Carrez (ttx) >Release Manager, OpenStack > >_______________________________________________ >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >_______________________________________________ >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >_______________________________________________ >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp