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[Ewan Mellor <Ewan.Mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Goirand [mailto:thomas@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 11:17 AM
> To: Anne Gentle
> Cc: Ewan Mellor; Thierry Carrez; openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Essex dead wood cutting
> 
> On 01/29/2012 12:04 PM, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> Given the fact that XCP is derived from XenServer, and that both use
> the
> same hypervisor, would XCP in Debian (eg: Kronos) be included in the
> "commercial hypervisor" definition above?

No, XCP isn't certified.  The certification needs to be against a specific release build of hypervisor and drivers -- that's why you need a commercial version.

That's not to say that XCP won't run Windows guests -- it will of course -- but Microsoft aren't going to accept your support request, that's the important point.

Cheers,

Ewan.