To have your OpenStack environment on Hyper-V, the computer must meet some requirements:
This is a separate guide that shows how to create volumes on OpenStack inside Windows
This guide continues the previous one: OpenStack on Hyper-V
This guide is totally OPTIONAL, it is only necessary if you want to create volumes from Windows
If you followed the previous guide where I explained how to obtain a functional OpenStack distribution internally on Windows, and you would like to use Ubuntu, CentOS 7 etc. cloud images
In this guide we will explain how to convert virtual disks of cloud images downloaded from the Internet to VHD format to run instances on the Hyper-V Hypervisor
Obviously, a network share is required to access the image downloaded on your computer by the OpenStack controller
Microstack Configurer WSL2 is a simple SH script that automates WSL2 configuration to install Microstack inside WSL2
Which unlike the previous script here the new script won't need to compile the kernel every time because it will have a vmlinux already compiled with kernel modules too
VirtualBox Portable is a set of files that allows you to configure 90% of a VirtualBox Portable to which you can take your own portable operating systems an alternative to VBox.me
It is available in Italian and English The current version of VirtualBox may not be the latest but it is quite stable it is 5.1.38
After extracting the files for VirtualBox at the end of the installation you can decide whether to install the Drivers and close, you can do it manually by double-clicking on the "Install.exe" file which will install all the drivers to make VirtualBox work, if you are done using VirtualBox on that computer just run "Uninstall.exe" to uninstall all the Drivers and then you can remove the USB stick (If in case you are using it on Stick)
Your virtual machines will be stored in the "Virtual Machines" folder while all the VirtualBox settings including the VirtualBox.xml will be stored in the Home folder
OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed and provisioned through APIs with common authentication mechanisms.
A dashboard is also available, giving administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.
An image with CentOS 7 and OpenStack pre-installed that can be imported directly from VirtualBox
This is a ready-made virtual machine with CentOS7 operating system installed with OpenStack deployed, and can be used to indulge yourself in creating instances, volumes, images, whatever you want, the performance of the instances varies by how much RAM and CPU are allocated to the VM
This short guide shows how to connect to instances launched in OpenStack in RDP on Hyper-V, this is useful if you are running Windows inside an OpenStack instance, you will not need to use key pairs
If you want to check that your instance has access to the Internet, you can run the ping command inside the instance
ping 8.8.8.8 or ping google.com
If you followed my last gist on how to deploy OpenStack on Hyper-V, if anyone has wondered if it is possible to run an OpenStack instance on the Hyperv hypervisor with nested virtualization, this is possible and this gist shows how to do it
The hyperv hypervisor if configured correctly with its controller, each instance launched with that hypervisor will run inside Windows, and on the Hyper-V Manager these VMs will have the name like this "instance-0000000x"
Open a PowerShell window as administrator and type the following commands