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Hi Donal, hi all,

I'm trying to test the Boot From ISO feature. So I've set a XenServer 
host and installed a Ubuntu 11.10 PV DomU in it.

Then I used the following commands but, as you can see in the attached 
nova-compute log excerpt, there was a problem.

glance add name=fedora_iso disk_format=iso < 
../Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-LXDE.iso
ID: 4
nova boot test_iso --flavor 2 --image 4

I can see the ISO images using "nova list" but not using "glance index".

The error seems to be: 'Cannot find SR of content-type ISO'. However, 
I've set a NFS ISO Library using XenCenter, so that there is an actual 
ISO content-typed SR. How to tell OpenStack to use this SR for the ISO 
images I post using glance?

Any clue? I feel I'm rather close to make it work.


thanks,

michaël


Michaël Van de Borne
R&D Engineer, SOA team, CETIC
Phone: +32 (0)71 49 07 45 Mobile: +32 (0)472 69 57 16, Skype: mikemowgli
www.cetic.be, rue des Frères Wright, 29/3, B-6041 Charleroi


Le 22/11/11 00:18, Donal Lafferty a écrit :
>
> Hi Michaël,
>
> "Boot from ISO" should be ISO image agnostic.  The feature overcomes 
> restrictions placed on the  distribution of modified Windows' images.  
> People can use their ISO instead, but they may still need to use 
> dedicated hardware.
>
> You should have no problem with a Linux distribution.
>
> However, I wrote it for XenAPI, so we need someone to duplicate the 
> work for KVM and VMWare.
>
> DL
>
> *From:*openstack-bounces+donal.lafferty=citrix.com at lists.launchpad.net 
> [mailto:openstack-bounces+donal.lafferty=citrix.com at lists.launchpad.net] 
> *On Behalf Of *Michaël Van de Borne
> *Sent:* 21 November 2011 17:28
> *To:* openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] boot from ISO
>
> up? anybody?
>
>
> Le 14/11/11 14:44, Michaël Van de Borne a écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm very interested in the "Boot From ISO" feature described here: 
> http://wiki.openstack.org/bootFromISO
>
> In a few words, it's about the ability to boot a VM from the CDROM 
> with an ISO image attached. A blank hard disk being attached to 
> install the OS files in it.
>
> I've got some questions about this:
> 1. Is the feature available today using a standard Diablo install? 
> I've seen the code about this feature is stored under nova/tests and 
> glance/tests. Does this mean it isn't finished yet and could only be 
> tested under specific conditions? Which ones?
> 2. the spec tells about a Windows use case. Why just Windows? What 
> should I do to test with a Linux distribution?
> 3. I can see here 
> <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ehudson-openstack/nova/trunk/revision/1433?start_revid=1433> 
> that the Xen hypervisor only has been impacted by the source code 
> changes. Are KVM and VMWare planned to be supported in the future? May 
> I help/be helped to develop KVM and VMWare support for this 'Boot From 
> Iso' feature?
>
> Any help appreaciated
>
> thank you,
>
>
> michaël
>
>
>
> -- 
> Michaël Van de Borne
> R&D Engineer, SOA team, CETIC
> Phone: +32 (0)71 49 07 45 Mobile: +32 (0)472 69 57 16, Skype: mikemowgli
> www.cetic.be  <http://www.cetic.be>, rue des Frères Wright, 29/3, B-6041 Charleroi
>
>
>
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