[lug] windows guest os under eucalyptus cloud question

[Bear Giles]

What about the broader question of running an image directly via the gnome
virt manager (which uses the hardware vme)? I'm not trying to play games
with licenses and it's fine for one image = one license, I just want to take
the windows-only databases off my lone windows box.

I seem to recall reading that the cheapest licenses can't run in a virtual
environment and the most expensive one can be used to host others (but don't
know if it can produce its own guests or if those guests can be hosted
elsewhere.)  I suspect this information is out there for MSDN-ers but if
you're just a linux jockey wanting to put in a minimal amount of
compatibility testing against SQL Server Express it's confusing. The easiest
answer would probably be to just get a cheap box - even an 'emachines' type
box - and put MSSQL-E on it but that means you have more hardware to deal
with.


On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Brian Fromme <fromme at cyborgs.com> wrote:

> Hi Bear,
>
> Open-source Eucalyptus does not support Windows guests.  You have to buy
> their enterprise version.  You may be able to make this work, but it's not a
> supported option.
>
>  cheers,
>  Brian
>
> On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Bear Giles wrote:
>
> Hi, I have a quick cloud question. I'm going to be setting up a (very)
> small private cloud(*) to experiment with and would like to have a, shudder,
> windows 7 instance. It's for a mixure of skills development and running an
> instance of MSSQL Express for testing purposes.
>
> So far so good -- but I seem to recall reading somewhere that you can't do
> a virtual install of Windows 7 home - that you have to spring for
> professional. Or even ultimate? Is this true? I know - Linux forum - but I
> suspect there are more host OSes on Linux than Windows.
>
> (*) Yes, I know.  $0.02 per hour for a micro instance. What am I thinking?
>  The main answer is that a major objective is to dehydrate servers that I
> only use occasionally. E.g., I'm working on a side project that supports
> several different databases, at least in theory. I want to have an easy way
> to rehydrate a server, e.g., an Oracle XE instance on CentOS, to run some
> tests against before dehydrating it for again for another few months. (Hence
> the Win7/MSSQL question.)  I could have a few dozen idle instances sitting
> at amazon but it's just as easy for me to keep them here and only migrate
> them if I need to do some more extensive testing than a couple refurbished
> quad-xeon systems can handle.
>
> If it matters I'll probably be using Eucalyptus as the cloud manager. Gnome
> has a nice virtual machine tool but I want something that plays well with
> AWS and other public clouds - it should literally take only a few clicks to
> migrate an instance between my home systems and out into the public cloud or
> back.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bear
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