Hi Jason, What happens if you forgo the converting to lsilogic, and instead upload the disk to glance as an ide disk (using --property vmware_adaptertype=ide)?
Also, just reiterating the docs and Dan's comments, After obtaining a sparse ide vmdk from "qemu-img convert", due to a bug in the VMware nova driver, you need to convert the vmdk to a thin or preallocated disk. You can do this one of the following tools: - vmkfstools.pl referenced in the DeveloperGuide Appendix - vmkfstools directly if you can ssh into an ESX machine - vmware-vdiskmanager (comes bundled with VMware Fusion or VMware Workstation) (e.g. '/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager' -r our_sparse_ide.vmdk -t 4 converted.vmdk After this step you should have a converted .vmdk and a converted -flat.vmdk. At this point converted -flat.vmdk (not the descriptor file converted .vmdk) can be uploaded to with --property vmware_adaptertype=ide as an ide image If this works, we can worry about converting the disk to SCSI next. Regards, Vui ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Jason Zhang" <bearovercl...@gmail.com> | To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> | Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 4:09:47 PM | Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] How to create vmdk for openstack usage | Hi Dan, | Thank you very much for your reply. | We tested again and it still does not work, can you give more information | about how the vmdk's were created? | I.e the tool used to create the debian and trend vmdk's listed here | https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaVMware/DeveloperGuide#Glance_Initial_Setup | Using qemu-img convert to convert a qcow2 or raw image to vmdk doesn't seem | to work, for example, by using | qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk <input-file.qcow2> <output-file.vmdk> | The command always converts to a vmdk which is of adapter type 'ide' other | than lsilogic. | We modified the adapter type to lsilogic and uploading it to glance by using, | glance image-create --name=<name> --disk-format=vmdk --container-format=bare | --is-public=true --property vmware_adaptertype=lsiLogic --property | vmware_disktype=thin --property vmware_ostype=ubuntu64Guest < | output-file.vmdk | or | glance image-create --name=<name> --disk-format=vmdk --container-format=bare | --is-public=true --property vmware_adaptertype=lsiLogic --property | vmware-disktype="preallocated" --property vmware_disktype=thin --property | vmware_ostype=ubuntu64Guest < output-file.vmdk | doesn't seem to work. Even after tying the steps under | https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaVMware/DeveloperGuide#Appendix | It seems the patch to convert into a scsi disk, has not been merged yet: | https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/545089 | Thanks in advance! | Best regards, | Jason | On 9/12/13 12:48 PM, Dan Wendlandt wrote: | | Hi Jason, | | | The best place to look is the official openstack compute documentation that | | covers vSphere in Nova: | | http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/vmware.html | | | In particular, check out the section titled "Images with VMware vSphere" | | (pasted below). As that text suggests, the most likely issue with your VMDK | | not booting is that you may have passed the wrong vmware_adaptertype to | | glance when creating the image. Also note the statement indicating that all | | VMDK images must be "flat" (i.e., single file), otherwise Glance will be | | confused. | | | Dan | | | Images with VMware vSphere | | | When using either VMware driver, images should be uploaded to the OpenStack | | Image Service in the VMDK format. Both thick and thin images are currently | | supported and all images must be flat (i.e. contained within 1 file). For | | example | | | To load a thick image with a SCSI adaptor: | | | $ glance image-create name="ubuntu-thick-scsi" disk_format=vmdk | | container_format=bare \ | | | is_public=true --property vmware_adaptertype="lsiLogic" \ | | | --property vmware_disktype="preallocated" \ | | | --property vmware_ostype="ubuntu64Guest" < ubuntuLTS-flat.vmdk | | | To load a thin image with an IDE adaptor: | | | $ glance image-create name="unbuntu-thin-ide" disk_format=vmdk | | container_format=bare \ | | | is_public=true --property vmware_adaptertype="ide" \ | | | --property vmware_disktype="thin" \ | | | --property vmware_ostype="ubuntu64Guest" < unbuntuLTS-thin-flat.vmdk | | | The complete list of supported vmware disk properties is documented in the | | Image Management section. It's critical that the adaptertype is correct; In | | fact, the image will not boot with the incorrect adaptertype. If you have | | the meta-data VMDK file the the ddb.adapterType property specifies the | | adaptertype. The default adaptertype is "lsilogic" which is SCSI. | | | On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Jason Zhang < bearovercl...@gmail.com > | | wrote: | | | | Hi Dears, | | | | | | In the document https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaVMware/DeveloperGuide | | | under the 'Get an initial VMDK to work with ', | | | | | | its said, 'There are a lot of “gotchas” around what VMDK disks work with | | | OpenStack + vSphere,'. | | | | | | The appendix section lists one of the gotchas. Are there any more | | | gotchas? | | | | | | During our testing, the vmdk instance on boot-up gives a 'Operating | | | System | | | not found' error, | | | | | | I am not sure whether this is a already known issue or not. | | | | | | Thanks in advance! | | | | | | Best regards, | | | | | | Jason | | | | | | _______________________________________________ | | | | | | OpenStack-dev mailing list | | | | | | OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org | | | | | | http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev | | | | | -- | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | Dan Wendlandt | | | Nicira, Inc: www.nicira.com | | | twitter: danwendlandt | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | _______________________________________________ | | | OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org | | http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev | | _______________________________________________ | OpenStack-dev mailing list | OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org | http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
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