[one-users] VM disk encryption

Carlos Martín Sánchez cmartin at opennebula.org
Mon Sep 23 03:06:50 PDT 2013


Hi,

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Tobias Brunner <tobias at tobru.ch> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Has anyone an idea how to prepare an OS image (Ubuntu Server) in which the
> data is encrypted? F.e. so that the user is able to choose a password
> during vm instatiation which is used to personalize the encryption.
>

You can make use of contextualization [1] for this. Either using a password
variable:
CONTEXT = [ ENCRYPT_PASS = "XXX" ]

Or doing a generic template that takes that password from the user's
template:
CONTEXT = [ ENCRYPT_PASS = "$USER[ENCRYPT_PASS]" ]

Cheers

[1] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.2:cong

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