<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I tried to install taking inputs from [<a href="http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers" target="_blank">http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers</a> ]<br>
</div><div> <br></div>Tried to install .vdi installation and then convert to qcow2 format. I have checked with "usual VirtualBox" and "virt-install" and "virt-install --prompt" . I did change the IDE to ICH6 but no luck.<br>
<br></div>
Then able to create & instantiate image, template and VMs and status is Running.<br><br></div>But while during VNC image viewer from OpenNebula Sunstone GUI, it still says either:<br></div><div><br></div>1. Booting from Hard Disk or 2. Trying to Boot -- No bootable device found<br>
<br></div>It tried to find the boot disk from CD/DVD/Floppy/Network but not found<br><br></div>The same disk is working fine from virt-manager and VirtualBox.<br><br></div>Regards,<br></div>Sudeep<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Sudeep Narayan Banerjee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:snbanerjee@iitgn.ac.in" target="_blank">snbanerjee@iitgn.ac.in</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear Valentine,<br><br>Yes I can boot the VM in my local machine using qemu.<br><br></div>
Right now I have installed win7 in my virtualbox & converted .vdi to .qcow2 format using qemu-utils<br>
<br></div>after that shall try to import the qcow2 file at /var/lib/libvirt/images/ folder and try again.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Sudeep<br>
<div><br></div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Valentin Bud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:valentin.bud@gmail.com" target="_blank">valentin.bud@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello Sudeep,<div><br></div><div>I have never used virt-install but I doubt it install the VirtIO drivers [1]</div>
<div>by itself inside the Windows 7 image. </div><div><br></div><div>Without those drivers the virtio doesn't work inside the machine, in the sense</div>
<div>that Windows Installer doesn't see any HDD present.</div><div><br></div><div>Can you boot the VM on your local machine using qemu?</div><div><br></div><div>[1]: <a href="http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers" target="_blank">http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Valentin</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Sudeep Narayan Banerjee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:snbanerjee@iitgn.ac.in" target="_blank">snbanerjee@iitgn.ac.in</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hello Valentine,<br><br></div>I followed the steps in and could install Win7 using virt-install command. Win7 OS gets installed in 7GB HDD and I could see Win7 desktop using virt-manager. <br>
<br>Then I power-off the machine and create the image, template & VM successfully from oneadmin prompt.<br><br>But, from vncviewer in OpenNebula GUI, it says, "Booting from Hard-Disk". Inside the VM, I am not able to see the desktop!<br>
<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br></div>Following steps I did:<br><br>1. [oneadmin@front ~]$ cd /var/lib/libvirt/images/<br><br>[oneadmin@front images]$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o preallocation=metadata /storage/local/images/win7.qcow2 8G<div>
<br>
<br>Formatting '/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qow2', fmt=qcow2 size=8589934592 encryption=off cluster_size=65536 preallocation='metadata'<br><br><br></div>[oneadmin@front images]$ qemu-img info win7.qcow2 <br>
<br>
image: win7.qcow2<div><br>file format: raw<br>virtual size: 8.0G (8589934592 bytes)<br></div>disk size: 392K<br>cluster_size: 65536<br><br>[oneadmin@front images]$ qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 win7.qcow2 win7.qcow2<br>
<br>[oneadmin@front images]$ qemu-img info win7.qcow2 <br>
<br>image: win7.qcow2<br>file format: qcow2<div><br>virtual size: 8.0G (8589934592 bytes)<br></div>disk size: 392K<br>cluster_size: 65536<br><br>[oneadmin@front images]$ chown qemu.qemu win7.qcow2<br><br>[oneadmin@front images]$ virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name win7 --ram 1024 --vcpus 2 --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2,size=8,format=qcow2,bus=virtio,cache=none --cdrom /home/Windows-7-x86.iso --vnc --os-type=windows --os-variant=win7 -noautoconsole --accelerate --noapic --keymap=en-us<br>
<br></div><div><br></div>Finally,<div><br><br>[oneadmin@front ~]$ onevm list<br> ID USER GROUP NAME STAT UCPU UMEM HOST TIME<br></div> 25 oneadmin oneadmin myvm1 runn 0 512M nc1 11d 16h14<br>
<br></div><br>Regards,<br><div><div><div>Sudeep<br></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Valentin Bud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:valentin.bud@gmail.com" target="_blank">valentin.bud@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello Sudeep,<div><br></div><div>Note that virt-install doesn't care that your image is already created, it</div>
<div>overwrites it and changes the format to raw.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Take a look over this article [1], on how to pass the format of the </div>
<div>image to virt-install.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Or just qemu-img convert your raw image to qcow2.</div><div><br></div><div>[1]: <a href="http://opennodecloud.com/documentation/howtos/kvm-guests-virt-install-examples/" target="_blank">http://opennodecloud.com/documentation/howtos/kvm-guests-virt-install-examples/</a></div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Best,</div><div>Valentin</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Sudeep Narayan Banerjee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:snbanerjee@iitgn.ac.in" target="_blank">snbanerjee@iitgn.ac.in</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear Javier,<br><br></div>You are true. It is raw indeed. But I made it like qcow2! Below is the command I executed for qcow2.<div>
<br><br>[oneadmin@front images]$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o preallocation=metadata /storage/local/images/<div>
winserv1.qcow2 8G<br>Formatting '/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qow2', fmt=qcow2 size=8589934592 encryption=off cluster_size=65536 preallocation='metadata'<br></div><br></div>[oneadmin@front images]$ qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2<br>
image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2<br>file format: raw<br>virtual size: 8.0G (8589934592 bytes)<br>disk size: 4.9G<br><br></div><div>So, how to fix it?!? I have been trying to make a VM in windows for past 10days but still not able to make it! :-(<br>
</div><div><br></div>Regards,<br></div>Sudeep<br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Javier Fontan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jfontan@opennebula.org" target="_blank">jfontan@opennebula.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I believe that the image is not a qcow2 image but raw. You can check<br>
the format with:<br>
<br>
$ qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2<br>
<div><div><br>
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Sudeep Narayan Banerjee<br>
<<a href="mailto:snbanerjee@iitgn.ac.in" target="_blank">snbanerjee@iitgn.ac.in</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dear Sir,<br>
><br>
> I have been trying to install Windows-7 64bit in OpenNebula. Our target is<br>
> to create a VM with Windows as OS.<br>
><br>
> Below are the steps that I followed. But not able to "runn" the VM. SeLinux<br>
> is Disabled in both servers.<br>
><br>
> [root@front ~]# getenforce --> Frontend<br>
> Disabled<br>
><br>
> [root@nc1 ~]# getenforce --> Worker Node<br>
> Disabled<br>
><br>
> [oneadmin@front ~]$ cd /var/lib/libvirt/images/<br>
><br>
> [oneadmin@front images]$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o preallocation=metadata<br>
> /storage/local/images/winserv1.qcow2 8G<br>
> Formatting '/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qow2', fmt=qcow2 size=8589934592<br>
> encryption=off cluster_size=65536 preallocation='metadata'<br>
><br>
> [oneadmin@front images]$ ls -lrth<br>
> total 5.0G<br>
> -rw------- 1 oneadmin oneadmin 8.0G Jul 8 18:23 win7.qcow2<br>
> [oneadmin@front images]$ exit<br>
><br>
> [root@front ~]# virt-install --prompt<br>
> What is the name of your virtual machine?<br>
> myvm7<br>
> How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)?<br>
> 1024<br>
> What would you like to use as the disk (file path)?<br>
> /var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2<br>
> How large would you like the disk (/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2) to be<br>
> (in gigabytes)?<br>
> 8<br>
> What is the install CD-ROM/ISO or URL?<br>
> /home/Windows-7-x86.iso<br>
><br>
> Starting install...<br>
> Allocating 'win7.qcow2'<br>
> | 8.0 GB 00:00<br>
> Creating domain...<br>
> | 0 B 00:00<br>
> (virt-viewer:24972): virt-viewer-DEBUG: Couldn't load configuration: File is<br>
> empty<br>
><br>
> [oneadmin@front ~]$ oneimage create --name "win7-x86_64" --path<br>
> "/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2" --driver qcow2 --datastore default<br>
> ID: 12<br>
><br>
> [oneadmin@front ~]$ oneimage list<br>
> ID USER GROUP NAME DATASTORE SIZE TYPE PER STAT<br>
> RVMS<br>
> 3 oneadmin oneadmin Ubuntu-14.04_x8 default 287M OS No used<br>
> 1<br>
> 12 oneadmin oneadmin win7-x86_64 default 8G OS No rdy<br>
> 0<br>
><br>
> [oneadmin@front ~]$ onetemplate create --name "win7" --cpu 1 --vcpu 1<br>
> --memory 512 --arch x86_64 --disk "win7-x86_64" --nic "private" --vnc --ssh<br>
> ID: 11<br>
><br>
> [oneadmin@front ~]$ onetemplate list<br>
> ID USER GROUP NAME<br>
> REGTIME<br>
> 2 oneadmin oneadmin Ubuntu-14.04 06/27<br>
> 02:11:28<br>
> 11 oneadmin oneadmin win7 07/08<br>
> 18:30:39<br>
><br>
> [oneadmin@front ~]$ onetemplate instantiate win7 --name myvm8<br>
> VM ID: 36<br>
><br>
> [oneadmin@front ~]$ onevm list<br>
> ID USER GROUP NAME STAT UCPU UMEM HOST<br>
> TIME<br>
> 25 oneadmin oneadmin myvm2 runn 0 512M nc1 11d<br>
> 16h14<br>
> 36 oneadmin oneadmin myvm8 fail 0 0K 0d<br>
> 00h00<br>
><br>
><br>
> ERROR from log file.<br>
><br>
> [oneadmin@front ~]$ tail -f /var/log/one/36.log<br>
><br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:31:48 2014 [DiM][I]: New VM state is ACTIVE.<br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:31:48 2014 [LCM][I]: New VM state is PROLOG.<br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:35:30 2014 [LCM][I]: New VM state is BOOT<br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:35:30 2014 [VMM][I]: Generating deployment file:<br>
> /var/lib/one/vms/36/deployment.0<br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:35:31 2014 [VMM][I]: ExitCode: 0<br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:35:31 2014 [VMM][I]: Successfully execute network driver<br>
> operation: pre.<br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: Command execution fail: cat << EOT |<br>
> /var/tmp/one/vmm/kvm/deploy '/var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/deployment.0'<br>
> 'nc1' 36 nc1<br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: error: Failed to create domain from<br>
> /var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/deployment.0<br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: error: internal error process exited<br>
> while connecting to monitor: qemu-kvm: -drive<br>
> file=/var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/disk.0,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=qcow2:<br>
> could not open disk image /var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/disk.0: Invalid<br>
> argument<br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]:<br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][E]: Could not create domain from<br>
> /var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/deployment.0<br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: ExitCode: 255<br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: Failed to execute virtualization driver<br>
> operation: deploy.<br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][E]: Error deploying virtual machine: Could<br>
> not create domain from /var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/deployment.0<br>
> Tue Jul 8 18:35:33 2014 [DiM][I]: New VM state is FAILED<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Thanks & Regards,<br>
> Sudeep Narayan Banerjee<br>
><br>
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