Fabian, On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Fabian Wenk <fab...@wenks.ch> wrote: > 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. >
Hmm, I feared these kind of answers. :-( Such a workflow unacceptable for my end-users. -- Thanks, //richard _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.opennebula.org http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org