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[Bug 1231254] Re: Windows instances need timezone to be localtime

 

** Changed in: nova/grizzly
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Windows instances need timezone to be localtime

Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
  Fix Released
Status in OpenStack Compute (nova) folsom series:
  Fix Committed
Status in OpenStack Compute (nova) grizzly series:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  (This bug report is forked off from 1026621).

  I'm sorry to hear you're having pain with Windows instances.
  Unfortunately I don't know a lot about windows, but it sounds as though
  if we could change the bios timezone for Windows instances to the
  timezone of the compute node that would alleviate your issue. Is that
  correct?

  Looking at the code, each instance has an os_type field, which is
  inherited from the image the instance is based off (there is an image
  property called os_type). Xen expects this value to be "windows" for
  windows instances. So, libvirt could do the same thing here and treat
  the timezone for instances with os_type == "windows" differently.

  I'm going to create a new bug to track this windows issue, so that I
  can leave this bug focussed on the DHCP timeout issue. This isn't
  because Windows is less important as a guest, but because I don't want
  it to be missed in the DHCP discussion that's happening here.

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