Here’s the situation…
You have a machine and you want to test out openstack. You can provision and run windows VMs with an Ubuntu server acting as a hypervisor. Here are some of the ingredients you will need along with some instructions and tips. This is a work in progress so it’s not yet complete.
Ingredients:
- X86 hardware box with VT capabilities
- lots of RAM – 4GB or more
- fast disk – SSD for running OS and VMs and slower SATA for storing templates and media
- Ubuntu 12 server
- Devstack single machine guide - http://devstack.org/guides/single-machine.html
- review Openstack architecture – http://ken.pepple.info/openstack/2012/09/25/openstack-folsom-architecture/
- try out a cloud instance of openstack - https://trystack.org
- how to disable network manager on ubuntu - http://www.sitepoint.com/ubuntu-12-04-lts-precise-pangolin-networking-tips-and-tricks/
- how to set static ip on ubuntu - http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed/?p=2961
- how to setup linux bridge - http://tech.paulcz.net/2012/12/configuring-kvm-openvswitch-for-ubuntu.html
- how to create a windows VM on KVM - http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/creating-a-windows-image.html
- how to provision windows VMs with OpenStack - http://www.cloudbase.it/cloud-init-for-windows-instances/
- participate in the weekly hyper-v nova meetings - http://wiki.openstack.org/Hyper-V#Communication