[one-users] Creating a VM Image

[Olivier Sallou]

Le 3/9/12 11:51 AM, Snyman, Adrian a écrit :
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> Thanks for the feedback Oliver !!
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> Next question then:
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> The resulting install will be an image -- how does the templating
> system get utilized to update IP address / hostname, and
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> Any other custom kernel arguments ?
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you need to customize your image to load context parameter
(http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.2:cong).
Or your template only sets the MAC address and you connect to a DHCP server.
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> Adrian Snyman
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> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org] *On Behalf Of *Olivier Sallou
> *Sent:* 09 March 2012 12:23 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [one-users] Creating a VM Image
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> Le 3/9/12 10:34 AM, Snyman, Adrian a écrit :
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> Hi there,
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> I have been reading through the docs on how the vm's are created /
> deployed, and I must admit that I still can't quite get how it all
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> If I want to create a vm -- what is the best way to do this ?
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> Ie: I have the CentOS 6.2 dvd image.
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> I would like to build a Linux "Base" image that will then get extended
> by a template to be a DNS or DB or WEB server.
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> I have used cobbler to do this on existing machine based installations
> with success, but I am trying to figure out how
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> To do this with a VM deployment.
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> When I create a filesystem, I use a raw image file. When trying a qcow
> type image -- centos doesn't see any disk space.
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> Then, I build a VM through the virt-manager interface -- but surely I
> can do this within OpenNebula ?
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> OpenNebula is not for VM creation. You can indeed use virt-manager, or
> VirtualBox (then transform your image to approriate format).
> If you have an empty disk image, you could attach a CentOS DVD image
> to "CDROM" then connect to the VNC of your image to do the install but
> I don't think it is the easiest/better thing to do.
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> My apologies for sounding naïve- just trying to get to grips with all
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> Adrian Snyman
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