To address the last question first, there's no dependency on openstack at all. If you want to run VMs across the three nodes, it should be fine, and in fact I t

To address the last question first, there's no dependency on openstack at all. If you want to run VMs across the three nodes, it should be fine, and in fact I think the "sheepdog:windows7" disk format might just work in minimega. You should be able to use the Infiniband network for inter-VM communication provided you've got IP-over-IB set up. Now, to address the unspoken question: should you use minimega for this environment? It depends what you use it for. If you're hosting your mail server on the VM, I'd probably go with something else--we haven't focused on long-running unique/essential VMs, although stability is quite good (I've run experiments for weeks at a time). If you're playing around with network topologies, or developing distributed software, or any other situation where you're running lots of VMs that you may want to tear down and re-launch frequently, it's a great option.