[one-users] Installation From ISO images

[Ruben S. Montero]

Hi,

Try this in your template

OS = [ boot = "cdrom" ]


Cheers!

Ruben

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Viji V Nair <viji at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi Ruben,
>
> Thank you so much for your response
>
> I have followed the steps and there are some issues. When I try to do a
> "onevm create solaris10.one", both the images (sol.img and
> osol-0906-x86.iso) are being copied to the shared storage as
> /srv/cloud/images/<vmid>/disk.0 and /srv/cloud/images/<vmid>/disk.1. Then
> the it tries to boot from the hard drive, I mean disk.0 (sol.img, hda). From
> the VNC console I could see
>
>     1. disk.0 is detected as ata0 - 2G in size (this is the image, sol.img,
> created using dd)
>     2. disk.1 is detected as ata1 - 677M (this is the iso image)
>     3. a cdrom device
>
> VNC is showing the boot error, tried to select F12 and selected cdrom, but
> no luck.
>
>
> # cat solaris10.one
> NAME   = solaris10
> CPU    = 0.2
> MEMORY = 1280
>
> DISK = [
>  source   = "/srv/cloud/images/imgs/sol.img",
>  target   = "hda",
>  save     = "yes",
>  clone    = "no" ]
>
> DISK = [
>  source   = "/srv/cloud/images/isos/osol-0906-x86.iso",
>  type     = "cdrom",
>  target   = "hdb",
>  clone    = "no" ]
>
> NIC = [ NETWORK="Pcloud Network01"]
>
> GRAPHICS = [ type = "vnc", listen  = "node01.pcloud.com", port = "5902"]
>
> REQUIREMENTS = "HOSTNAME = \"node01*\""
>
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Viji
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Ruben S. Montero <rubensm at dacya.ucm.es>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The procedure should be as follows, create a template that contains :
>>
>> 1- Define your main disk as usual, and tell OpenNebula to keep the changes
>> DISK = [
>>  source   = "/srv/cloud/images/master/fedora_disk.img",
>>  target   = "hda",
>>  save     = "yes"
>>  clone    = "no" ]
>> (this assumes that you have a plain file for fedora_disk.img (e.g.
>> with a dd). You can also use separate partitions for swap and the OS
>> installation...
>>
>> 2- Define an additional DISK for the ISO image with the installation CD
>> DISK = [
>>  source   = "/srv/cloud/images/isos/fedora_12.iso",
>>  type     = "cdrom",
>>  target   = "hdb",
>>  clone    = "no" ]
>>
>> 3.- Add a VNC console so you can interact with the installer. And tell
>> to listen in a cluster node hostname, by adding to the template:
>> GRAPHICS = [ type = "vnc", listen  = "a_cluster_node_hostname", port =
>> "5902"]
>>
>> 4.- Tell OpenNebula to place the VM in that clusternode, by adding to
>> the template:
>> REQUIREMENTS="HOSTNAME=a_cluster_node_hostname"
>>
>> Once you have the template ready....
>>
>> 1.- Create the VM with onevm create
>> 2.- use you favorite VNC client to install the OS (you should be able
>> to see the console at c<cluster_node_name>:5902) NOTE: You can always
>> use 127.0.0.1 for the VNC server but then you have to start the VNC
>> client from the cluster node, but we usually do not have an X server
>> there...
>> 3.- When you are done shutdown the VM. onevm shutdown
>> 4.- The new installed image would be in
>> $ONE_LOCATION/var/<VM_ID>/disk.0 Copy it to a safe location so you can
>> use it later as a master image.
>>
>> Hope it helps
>>
>> Ruben
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Viji V Nair <viji at fedoraproject.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have a two node cluser with OCFS2 running on OpenNebula 1.4 and Fedora
>> > 12
>> > x86_64. Is it possible to start installation of vms directly from an iso
>> > image other than running virt-install to create the image and then
>> > deploy
>> > the same.
>> >
>> > Any help of the same greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Viji
>> >
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>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Ruben Santiago Montero
>> Associate Professor, Complutense University of Madrid
>>
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>
>



-- 
Dr. Ruben Santiago Montero
Associate Professor, Complutense University of Madrid

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