Dear Sir, Thanks a lot for the valuable steps! I am working on it.
May revert back if I fail to troubleshoot an issue. Thanks again! Regards, Sudeep On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:23 AM, Carlo Daffara < carlo.daff...@cloudweavers.eu> wrote: > You have to take three separate steps: > - load the iso image as a CD within opennebula, > - create the template for the initial installation, > - after the installation, remove the CD from the template and you have > your reusable windows image. > If you already have the iso file, just upload within Sunstone, by creating > a new image of type CDROM. > After that, create a template with 2 storage units: the cd image you have > uploaded, and a datablock of the desired size, marked persistent so that > modifications > will remain. > Instantiate the template, and you will be guided in the installation of > windows on the datablock; after completed (and updated, and downloaded > service packs and whatever) > shut down the machine, change the datastore image you created into type > "OS", remove the cd from the template and you're set. If you use kvm, it > may be especially worthwile to install the > windows paravirtualized drivers for KVM, that add a substantial increase > in speed for all io operations. > regards, > carlo daffara > > ----- Messaggio originale ----- > Da: "Sudeep Narayan Banerjee" <snbaner...@iitgn.ac.in> > A: users@lists.opennebula.org > Inviato: Venerdì, 27 giugno 2014 0:50:56 > Oggetto: [one-users] Require Windows.qcow2 tarball > > Dear All, > > To install Windows OS in a VM in OpenNebula I need to create a template in > Windows XP/7/8. For that I require the OS is qcow2 format preferably. > > If it is not available due to licensing issue, we have our license copy; > could you please provide us the steps to convert that .iso file to a .qcow2 > format? > > Do I need to create an .img first, install that OS somewhere & then > utilize the .qcow2 driver? > > Please help! > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > Sudeep Narayan Banerjee > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.opennebula.org > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > -- Thanks & Regards, Sudeep Narayan Banerjee
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