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[Ewan Mellor <Ewan.Mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you want Microsoft to take a phone call, then you need a hypervisor with the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) certificate: http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx

That includes Citrix XenServer, Red Hat RHEL and RHEV, Oracle VM, Novell SLES, and VMware ESX.

Basically the answer is that you need a commercial hypervisor (because SVVP certification takes weeks to do, and months up front to get the drivers and hypervisor perfect).

If you'll excuse me a corporate plug for a moment, Windows support is one area that XenServer does particularly well (it's very much in line with Citrix's business).

Cheers,

Ewan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Tim Bell
> Sent: 28 January 2012 12:35
> To: Sandy Walsh; Thierry Carrez; openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting
> 
> 
> 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 ?
> - 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 ?
> 
> Tim Bell
> CERN
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Sandy Walsh
> Sent: 27 January 2012 16:45
> To: Thierry Carrez; openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on
> behalf of Thierry Carrez [thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 11:23 AM
> To: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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
> 
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