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[Ken Pepple <ken.pepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 28, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Tim Bell wrote:
> - What hypervisors are being used for running Windows guests (both Windows 7
> and Windows Server) on top of OpenStack ?
> - To what extent will Microsoft support problems reported with a Windows
> guest running on a non-Microsoft hypervisor ?
> - Are there other sites who are affected by this proposal who would be
> willing to invest effort to maintain the Hyper-V support ?

+1 for depreciating Hyper-V.

The reality is the Hyper-V support is missing support for even the most basic functions -- volumes, glance, several network managers, etc. We investigated it for our service, but found it only borderline functional.

Internap Open Public Cloud runs Windows guests under XCP.

/k

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