[one-users] Doing things a bit different, bypassing templates?

[Tim Stoop]

Hi all,

Bumping this because I'm still hoping someone has some insights on this 
to help us along! :)

On 06/05/2013 06:22 PM, Tim Stoop wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've succesfully deployed OpenNebula and got two hosts up and running
> just fine. What I'm now running into is that the framework in OpenNebula
> doesn't really fit how we plan on using it. We host a lot of different,
> small to largish VMs that currently just have a local storage. We boot
> them with PXE or cdrom and then install their attached, local disk.
> After that we remove the cd and boot the machine again.
>
> I'm looking for way to duplicate this, but I'm having a hard time
> fitting the templates to this mindset. The whole idea of using a master
> image is pretty clumsy for the way we're used to working. I can see how
> we can create a template for each VM type we have, but how would we add
> a local disk that doesn't wipe on a shutdown without actually having to
> create a separate image for each and every VM we host?
>
> So in short, I'd like to see something like:
>
> - Create a VM of this type, using these values (CPU, RAM, disk size).
> - Simply create a local disk instead of doing the whole dance with
> images ssh'ed from the central server.
> - Either PXE boot or mount this CD to install from, then reboot and boot
> from the local disk.
> - The disk image should be locally, but persistent.
>
> I might simply be overlooking some parts of the documentation here, but
> a pointer in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!
>


-- 
Kind regards,
Tim