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

Jaime Melis jmelis at opennebula.org
Mon Jul 29 07:12:08 PDT 2013


It is thought to work that way. The VR acts as a DNS server and is not
passing along the DNS values to the clients, but rather, doing the DNS
lookups itself.


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:44 AM, <chenxiang at aquala-tech.com> wrote:

> 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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