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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif" size="4"><b><i>--------------<br></i></b></font></div></div><div>Hi Devananda,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your reply. Your link shows how to create a VM through vSphere. What we are doing is to how to deploy vSphere to bare metal server, so that automation can be from installation, deployment, to configuration, to VM creation.</div><div><br></div><div>Hi Chris,</div><div><br></div><div>We do use diskimage-builder to create ubuntu image, kernel, initfs, and deploy ubuntu through Ironic API successful. However, seems like diskimage-builder doesn't support vmware, so we don't know how to extract vmware kernel, initfs from vmware image, such as <a href="http://partnerweb.vmware.com/programs/vmdkimage/debian-2.6.32-i686.vmdk" target="_blank">http://partnerweb.vmware.com/programs/vmdkimage/debian-2.6.32-i686.vmdk</a>. So wonder to know whether anyone has done this before.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards</div><div>Leslie</div><div><br></div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><div dir="ltr">Hi Chao,<div><br></div><div>The ironic ssh driver does support vmware. See <a href="https://github.com/openstack/ironic/blob/master/ironic/drivers/modules/ssh.py#L69-L89" target="_blank">https://github.com/openstack/ironic/blob/master/ironic/drivers/modules/ssh.py#L69-L89</a>. Have you seen the Triple-O tools, mainly Disk Image Builder (<a href="https://github.com/openstack/diskimage-builder" target="_blank">https://github.com/openstack/diskimage-builder</a>). This is how I build images I use for testing. I have not tested the vmware parts of ironic as I do not have a vmware server to test with, others have tested it. </div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris Krelle</div><div>--NobodyCam</div></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">2014-06-06 1:31 GMT+08:00 Devananda van der Veen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:devananda.vdv@gmail.com" target="_blank">devananda.vdv@gmail.com</a>></span>:<div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">ChaoYan,<br><br>Are you asking about using vmware as a test platform for developing<br>Ironic, or as a platform on which to run a production workload managed<br>by Ironic? I do not understand your question -- why would you use<br>Ironic to manage a VMWare cluster, when there is a separate Nova<br>driver specifically designed for managing vmware? While I am not<br>familiar with it, I believe more information may be found here:<br> <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaVMware/DeveloperGuide" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaVMware/DeveloperGuide</a><br><br>Best,<br>Devananda<br><div><br>On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Ñϳ¬ <<a href="mailto:yanchao727@gmail.com" target="_blank">yanchao727@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi, All:<br>> Is ironic support EXSI when boot a bare metal ? If we can, how to<br>> make vmware EXSI ami bare metal image ?<br>><br>> Best Regards£¡<br>> Chao Yan<br>> --------------<br>> My twitter£ºAndy Yan @yanchao727<br>> My Weibo£º<a href="http://weibo.com/herewearenow" target="_blank">http://weibo.com/herewearenow</a><br>> --------------<br>><br></div><div>> _______________________________________________<br>> OpenStack-dev mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev</a><br>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenStack-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev</a><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div><br></div></div> </div></body>
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