[one-users] Contextualization

Tue Apr 22 01:33:30 PDT 2014

You can register the context package in the files datastore and then
add it to the context. To mount the context CD you can execute:

# mount -L CONTEXT /mnt

And install the package from there.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Christophe Duez
<christophe.duez at student.uantwerpen.be> wrote:
> Owkey I tried. but I can't get through the internet so I cant download the
> contextualization stuff.
> any other solutions?
> or solutions why it is that I can't connect through the internet?
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Duez Christophe
> <christophe.duez at student.uantwerpen.be> wrote:
>>
>> So what I have to do if I understand correctly:
>> Create a template in OpenNebula (pastbin template layout)
>>
>>> TEMPLATE 13 INFORMATION
>>> ID             : 13
>>> NAME           : empty install template
>>> USER           : oneadmin
>>> GROUP          : oneadmin
>>> REGISTER TIME  : 04/16 14:49:35
>>> PERMISSIONS
>>> OWNER          : um-
>>> GROUP          : ---
>>> OTHER          : ---
>>> TEMPLATE CONTENTS
>>> CONTEXT=[
>>>   NETWORK="YES",
>>>   SSH_PUBLIC_KEY="$USER[SSH_PUBLIC_KEY]" ]
>>> CPU="1"
>>> DISK=[
>>>   IMAGE="CD Centos 6.5 Minimal",
>>>   IMAGE_UNAME="oneadmin" ]
>>> DISK=[
>>>   IMAGE="empty disc",
>>>   IMAGE_UNAME="oneadmin" ]
>>> GRAPHICS=[
>>>   KEYMAP="fr-be",
>>>   LISTEN="0.0.0.0",
>>>   TYPE="VNC" ]
>>> MEMORY="1024"
>>> NIC=[
>>>   IP="146.175.139.60" ]
>>> OS=[
>>>   ARCH="x86_64",
>>>   BOOT="cdrom" ]
>>
>>
>> Start the VM with this template.
>> Install the OS
>> Open VNC
>>
>> vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0DEVICE=eth0
>>>
>>> TYPE=Ethernet
>>> ONBOOT=yes
>>> NM_CONTROLLED=no
>>> BOOTPROTO=static
>>> IPADDR=146.175.139.60
>>>
>>> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>>
>>
>> Then install the contextualization.
>>
>> shutdown the VM
>>
>> Make the Image un-persistent
>>
>> Ready?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Anthony Francis - Handy Networks LLC
>> <anthony at handynetworks.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The simplest way when you are creating a new template is to make one VM
>>> from the template while the image is persistent, manually assign the IP
>>> information to the VM via VNC, spice or what have you, then install all the
>>> base software including the contextualization package. Then clean up the
>>> logs etc, destroy the Vm, set the image back to no-persistant and your
>>> contextualization will work when you make new VM’s based on the image.
>>> --
>>> Anthony Francis
>>> Hosting Support Manager
>>> HandyNetworks LLC
>>> http://www.handynetworks.com/
>>> 303-414-6904
>>>
>>> From: Christophe Duez <christophe.duez at student.uantwerpen.be>
>>> Date: Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 5:30 AM
>>> To: Valentin Bud <valentin.bud at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: opennebula <users at lists.opennebula.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [one-users] Contextualization
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Thank you for the extensive responds
>>> This is what I did and where I got stuck:
>>>
>>>> Export the libvirt xml of the VM from the host,
>>>>>
>>>>> virsh dumpxml one-45 > /tmp/XmlDumpFile
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> stop the VM,
>>>>>
>>>>> virsh destroy one-45
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> undefine the domain.
>>>>>
>>>>> virsh undefine one-45
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Configure the xml to mount a local folder from the host inside the VM
>>>> [1].
>>>>>
>>>>> <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
>>>>>       <driver type='path' wrpolicy='immediate'/>
>>>>>       <source dir='/tmp/contextualization'/>
>>>>>       <target dir='/tmp/contextualization'/>
>>>>>       <readonly/>
>>>>>     </filesystem>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Somehow deliver the context package in that folder.
>>>>>
>>>>> mkdir /tmp/contextualization/
>>>>> yum install opennebula-context -y --downloadonly
>>>>> --downloaddir=/tmp/contextualization/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Define the domain using your crafted XML,
>>>>>
>>>>> virsh define /tmp/XmlDumpFile
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> boot the machine,
>>>>>
>>>>> ????
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> VNC to it,
>>>> mount the shared folder in the host and install the deb/rpm.
>>>
>>>
>>> can you explain the boot parth of the whole process?
>>> and is this right what i did so far?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Valentin Bud <valentin.bud at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Christophe,
>>>>
>>>> Does your VM have a local network connection with the host or any other
>>>> computer in your local network? If that's the case you can finish the
>>>> installation,
>>>> reboot, connect to the VM via SSH, scp the contextualization package
>>>> from
>>>> a local computer that is in the same network or has access to the
>>>> network the VM
>>>> is part of.
>>>>
>>>> If you don't have VM network connectivity at all, the process I know of
>>>> is a little
>>>> bit tedious but doable.
>>>>
>>>> Export the libvirt xml of the VM from the host, stop the VM, undefine
>>>> the domain.
>>>> Configure the xml to mount a local folder from the host inside the VM
>>>> [1]. Somehow
>>>> deliver the context package in that folder. Define the domain using your
>>>> crafted XML,
>>>> boot the machine, VNC to it, mount the shared folder in the host and
>>>> install the deb/rpm.
>>>>
>>>> Are you somehow building a Debian image? If so try out bootstrap-vz, a
>>>> bootstraping
>>>> framework for Debian specifically targeted at bootstrapping systems for
>>>> virtualized
>>>> environments.
>>>>
>>>> [1]: http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsFilesystems
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Valentin
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Christophe Duez
>>>> <christophe.duez at student.uantwerpen.be> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> I followed this video from your youtube channel Bootstrapping
>>>>> OpenNebula 3.4 and creating a VM from scratch. I did this with the
>>>>> OpenNebula 4.4.1.
>>>>> Almost at the end they say you have to follow the documentation to
>>>>> setup contextualization.
>>>>> I searched the documentation and found out there are 2 ways:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Install from our repositories package one-context in Ubuntu/Debian or
>>>>>> opennebula-context in CentOS/RedHat. Instructions to add the repository at
>>>>>> the installation guide.
>>>>>> Download and install the package for your distribution:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DEB: Compatible with Ubuntu 11.10 to 13.04 and Debian Squeeze
>>>>>> RPM: Compatible with CentOS and RHEL 6.x
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Now the problem that I have is the following...
>>>>> Without internet connection downloading the one-context package from
>>>>> the repository is impossible, right?
>>>>> And downloading the Package directly isn't possible either, is it not?
>>>>> So how do I enable/install the contextualization?
>>>>>
>>>>> Please help me...
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>> Duez Christophe
>>>>>
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>>>>> http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Valentin Bud
>>>> http://databus.pro | valentin at databus.pro
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Duez Christophe
>>> Student at University of Antwerp :
>>> Master of Industrial Sciences: Electronics-ICT
>>>
>>> E christophe.duez at student.uantwperen.be
>>> L linkedin duez-christophe
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kind regards,
>> Duez Christophe
>> Student at University of Antwerp :
>> Master of Industrial Sciences: Electronics-ICT
>>
>> E christophe.duez at student.uantwperen.be
>> L linkedin duez-christophe
>
>
>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Duez Christophe
> Student at University of Antwerp :
> Master of Industrial Sciences: Electronics-ICT
>
> E christophe.duez at student.uantwperen.be
> L linkedin duez-christophe
>
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