[one-users] How to prepare window 7 image (Contextization)

[chenxiang at aquala-tech.com]

Assuming that I have only one LAN that is being served by an NAT server.
All the VM's are within the sam LAN, so they need to connect to the
outside world through a gateway, which is not xxx.xxx.xxx.1.

With the following context, the Virtual Router VM only gets the correct
IP, but not the gateway nor the dns:

CONTEXT=[
  DHCP="YES",
  DNS="8.8.4.4 8.8.8.8",
  PRIVNET="$NETWORK[TEMPLATE, NETWORK=\"MY-LAN\"]",
  RADVD="NO",
  TARGET="hdb",
  TEMPLATE="$TEMPLATE" ]

The gateway within the Virtual Router VM is xxx.xxx.xxx.1, while the DNS
servers are 172.16.0.1.

With the following context, the Virtual Router VM now gets the correct IP
address, gateway, and dns:

CONTEXT=[
  DHCP="YES",
  DNS="8.8.4.4 8.8.8.8",
  PRIVNET="$NETWORK[TEMPLATE, NETWORK=\"MY-LAN\"]",
  PUBNET="$NETWORK[TEMPLATE, NETWORK=\"MY-LAN\"]",
  RADVD="NO",
  TARGET="hdb",
  TEMPLATE="$TEMPLATE" ]

However, the Windows XP guest OS still gets the IP address of the Virtual
Router VM as the gateway and DNS.

Best regards,

Chen Xiang


> Hi,
>
> I have recently tested the Virtual Router as described on the following
> page:
>
> http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.0:router
>
> The problem with this Virtual Router is that it only delivers the correct
> IP address and network mask to the guest VM, but failed to deliver the
> correct gateway and DNS server to the VM.
>
> For example, if I have contextualized a Ubuntu 12.04 VM with the following
> parameters the VM is capable of getting the correct IP address, as well as
> the correct gateway and DNS server:
>
> CONTEXT=[
>   ETH0_DNS="$NETWORK[DNS, NETWORK=\"MY-LAN\"]",
>   ETH0_GATEWAY="$NETWORK[GATEWAY, NETWORK=\"MY-LAN\"]" ]
>
> With the following Virtual Router context, my Windows XP guest OS will get
> the IP address of the Virtual Router as the default gateway and DNS
> server.
>
> CONTEXT=[
>   DHCP="YES",
>   PRIVNET="$NETWORK[TEMPLATE, NETWORK=\"MY-LAN\"]",
>   RADVD="NO",
>   TARGET="hdb",
>   TEMPLATE="$TEMPLATE" ]
>
>
> I have already defined the related properties in my network definition,
> such as:
>
> DNS="8.8.8.8"
> GATEWAY="192.168.100.250"
> NETWORK_MASK="255.255.255.0"
>
> On the documentation page, under the Full Router section it says that i
> can add a DNS line in the context, so I did this:
>
> CONTEXT=[
>   DHCP="YES",
>   PRIVNET="$NETWORK[TEMPLATE, NETWORK=\"MY-LAN\"]",
>   RADVD="NO",
>   TARGET="hdb",
>   DNS="8.8.8.8",
>   TEMPLATE="$TEMPLATE" ]
>
> Try again with a Windows XP guest OS, still not working.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Chen Xiang
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Did you check the resources from this mail? The wiki contains a guide on
>> windows guest contextualization.
>> http://lists.opennebula.org/pipermail/users-opennebula.org/2013-July/023731.html
>>
>> Regards
>>
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>>
>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Romany Nageh
>> <engromanynageh at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> please can anyone tell me how to prepare window  7 image to work with
>>> opennebula 4.0.1
>>>
>>> i installed the windows and create vm but network not configured with
>>> an
>>> ip from  context variables .  i need the scripts that run and configure
>>> the
>>> network interfaces, the dns servers in windows image .
>>>
>>> *thanks and regards*,
>>> romany
>>>
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