In a number of scenarios it’s very useful to have different hypervisors in your OpenStack infrastructure, for example you might have KVM or XEN for Linux images and Hyper-V for Windows images. How can you tell Nova Scheduler to associate a given Glance image to a specific hypervisor? The answer is provided by a filter…
We did a lot of work this year on OpenStack and Hyper-V integration, with the result of bringing back Hyper-V in the Nova sources in time for the Folsom release. We are currently working on a lot of cool features to be released in time for Grizzly, so stay tuned! One of our goals was…
Accessing Microsoft’s Hyper-V console is typically performed by running Hyper-V Manager / vmconnect on a Windows Server host or Windows 7 / 8 equipped with RSAT. There are unfortunately quite a few limitations in this approach, including the fact that is not available on the Hyper-V host itself or on other operating systems. Hyper-V console…