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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Okay, I have been getting somewhere with this …</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The commandline I used to create a vm is as follows:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">#> virt-install -n VM1 -r 1024 -f /var/lib/one/images/centos-6.2/disk.0 -s 20 --vcpus=2 --os-type linux --os-variant=rhel6 --network bridge=virbr0 --nographics --hvm --location=/var/lib/one/cd_images/CentOS-6.2-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
--extra-args "console=ttyS0"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">So this gets me into the installer – great
</span><span style="font-family:Wingdings; color:#1F497D">J</span><span style="color:#1F497D"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">However, I have 2 problems.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:#1F497D">The text based install does not give you the option of modifying the disk layout – apparently this is a bug (or feature) in centos.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color:#1F497D">I get the following error now on install:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> install tree has been correctly generated.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> Could not retrieve
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> /mnt/sysimage/var/cache/yum/anaconda-CentOS-20111210233
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> 3.x86_64/eba624e5fe8db1b4ebe2e0b0ac66565be3c909c34c46d4
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> 685f50bbe921763d3b-primary.sqlite.bz2 matching remote
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> checksum from anaconda-CentOS-201112102333.x86_64
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">So I am now trying to figure out *<b>why</b>* it does this. Unfortunately you cannot use the console without specifying the iso as a location instead of a cdrom ..
</span><span style="font-family:Wingdings; color:#1F497D">L</span><span style="color:#1F497D"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Adrian Snyman</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Linux Systems Administrator</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Tel: 011-559-4929</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Cell: 082-600-1211</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> users-bounces@lists.opennebula.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.opennebula.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Snyman, Adrian<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 05 March 2012 02:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> users@lists.opennebula.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [one-users] Creating a basic vm image</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am not too sure how the initial image creation works.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From what I understand, you need to install an OS image, and then register this with oned.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then, there is an additional ISO/Image file that has all the Changes associated with that</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Specific host ?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any pointers / dumbed down howto would be great on how to create an image, and then use</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It to build other vm’s …</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Adrian Snyman</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Linux Systems Administrator</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Tel: 011-559-4929</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Cell: 082-600-1211</span></p>
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