[lug] windows guest os under eucalyptus cloud question

[Brian Fromme]

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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