Hello Richard
On 08.12.2011 17:45, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
I'm a bit confused how to create a vm from scratch.
Assume I want a vm running with CentOS6 and a new virtual hard disk of 500GiB.
How can I create a new disk using OpenNebula (especially with Sunstone)?
I do not know how to do this steps in Sunstone, I did it with the
command line tools.
Create the image manually (outside of OpenNebula) with this steps
(for KVM):
On a system which has KVM available:
qemu-img create -f raw servername.img 10G
qemu-system-x86_64 -hda servername.img -cdrom
/path/to/install.iso -boot d -m 512
Connect through VNC for installation, the above command will
report you the used port (default 5900), see blow as
qemu-system-x86_64 listen only on localhost for VNC
qemu-system-x86_64 servername.img -m 512 # to test after install
Connect through VNC
login and run 'poweroff' as root or with sudo
Now on the front-end:
Create an image template (servername-image.one)
oneimage register servername-image.one
Create an VM template for the host (servername.one)
onevm create servername.one
Connect to VNC on the cluster node:
I do not know about your workstation, but from my Mac client I
use Chicken [1], which supports connection through ssh. I guess
there is a VNC client for the OS of your workstation available
which also can do this. Else you could run it with manual ssh
forwarding like this:
ssh -L localhost:5900:localhost:5907 <server-with-KVM>
replace 5907 with the port which qemu-system-x86_64 as reported
and then use the local VNC client to connect to localhost port 5900.
[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/chicken/
In my setup each vm will have it's own disk image, thus no disk image
needs to be copied.
Is there a way to enforce this?
The best is to register each image in the Image Repository with
'oneimage register ...'
A final question, is it possible to change the boot order of a vm?
Do I really have to delete and recreate it?
You need to shutdown and recreate the VM. Best done with the
command line tool 'onevm create <template>' and the template you
can modify.
bye
Fabian
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