[StarCluster] Plan for Window Azure Virtual Machines?

[Hyungro Lee]

In my opinion, it is not easy to support boto from Windows Azure since they
use Hyper-V not Xen for their virtualization. They have different steps to
launch VM instances.

I have seen many people use StarCluster for boto-supported cloud services
and I thought it doesn't hurt if they can use StarCluster in other services
like Azure as well, even though the services have different interfaces. I
am willing to put some efforts to port StarCluster to Windows Azure without
ruining the main structure of StarCluster. I guess awsutil.py is a main
source for handling Amazon Cloud with boto and for Azure, it may need a
separated file (e.g. wazutil.py) to handle Azure Cloud with their client
sdk. It would be appreciated if I can hear any comments and feedbacks for
that.

Best,
Hyungro


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Rayson Ho <raysonlogin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Without boto support, it is a lot harder to port StarCluster to Azure.
>
> Rayson
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> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Hyungro Lee <hroe.lee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > I was wondering if you have a plan for supporting Windows Azure. I see
> > Google Compute Engine is going to be integrated soon as planned.
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> > Thanks,
> > Hyungro
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