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Does the ISO you prepared contain the XenServer tools? I wonder
whether ejecting the CD from your kickstart tool would do the job.<br>
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--> no. The ISO is just a netinstall.iso from fedora 16 that I
bundled myself, and which includes a kickstart file.<br>
<br>
I'll see if kickstart can manage to eject the CD.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
michaël<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Michaël Van de Borne
R&D Engineer, SOA team, CETIC
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Le 30/03/12 18:27, Armando Migliaccio a écrit :
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cite="mid:CAFRtK99kOrkFwh_jhnq_fn_OSjq+N7gBdOzv6C252VoMM45tgA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Michaël Van de Borne
<span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:michael.vandeborne@cetic.be" target="_blank">michael.vandeborne@cetic.be</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi Donal,<br>
<br>
Still about this good old 'Boot From ISO' feature inside the
XenAPI: I packaged a custom netinstall.iso image which boots
and installs the OS with kickstart. So that everything is
custom and in 5minutes, I've got a complete running brand
new machine freshly installed that has booted from the
CDROM. But then at the end of install process, I ask
kickstart to reboot the machine so that I can enjoy the new
install.<br>
<br>
But the ISO image remains attached and the VM reboots again
on the ISO.<br>
<br>
So, my question: Is it possible to automatically (using the
API) empty CD drive every time a VM that's been booted from
ISO reboots? If not, is it possible to change boot order
when rebooting?<br>
<br>
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<div>To the best of my knowledge OSAPI does not have a
'eject-media-from-mv' call.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Does the ISO you prepared contain the XenServer tools? I
wonder whether ejecting the CD from your kickstart tool would
do the job.</div>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> thanks<br>
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Le 02/12/11 11:44, Donal Lafferty a écrit :
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The
background is that having provided a sample
implementation, developers targeting libvirt would
offer the same functionality.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">DL</span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
Michaël Van de Borne [<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:michael.vandeborne@cetic.be"
target="_blank">mailto:michael.vandeborne@cetic.be</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> 01 December 2011 16:34<br>
<b>To:</b> Anne Gentle<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Donal Lafferty; <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net"
target="_blank">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack] boot from ISO</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That's right, it's a Xen<b>Server</b>
only feature. I insist on XenServer because it's
been implemented only inside the xenapi.<br>
If you wish to manage VMs using KVM or Xen
hypervisor (the community hypervisor packaged in
Linux distributions), this will utilize the libvirt
API, and not XenAPI.<br>
<br>
So, one needs to use XenServer (btw, openstack works
great with XenServer 6.0 even if <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-compute/admin/content/hypervisors.html"
target="_blank">documentation claims that the
supported release is 5.5</a>) in order for the
XenAPI to be used.<br>
<br>
I made use of this <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServerDevelopment"
target="_blank">documentation</a> in order to set
up the environement. What is missing is that, in
order to activate the "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/bootFromISO"
target="_blank">Boot From ISO</a>" feature, the SR
elements on XenServer host must be configured that
way:<br>
<br>
1. create an ISO-typed SR, such as an NFS ISO
library, for instance. For this, using XenCenter is
pretty easy. You need to export an NFS volume from a
remote NFS server. Make sure it is exported in RW
mode.<br>
2. on the host, find the uuid of this ISO SR:<br>
# xe host-list<br>
write the uuid down<br>
3. # xe sr-list content-type=iso<br>
locate the uuid of the NFS ISO library<br>
4. # xe sr-param-set uuid=<iso sr uuid>
other-config:i18n-key=local-storage-iso<br>
Even if an NFS mount point isn't local storage, you
must specify "local-storage-iso".<br>
5. # xe pbd-list sr-uuid=<iso sr uuid><br>
make sure the host-uuid from "xe pbd-list" equals
the uuid of the host you found at step 2<br>
<br>
then apply the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServerDevelopment#Configure_SR_storage"
target="_blank">rest of the tutorial</a> and
publish an ISO image this way:<br>
glance add name=fedora_iso disk_format=iso
container_format=bare <
Fedora-16-x86_64-netinst.iso<br>
nova boot test_iso --flavor <flavor ID>
--image <image ID><br>
<br>
I've posted this in the bug you filed, Anne.<br>
<br>
By the way, I'm going to work on porting this
feature on libvirt API and VMWare API (if nobody
works on it yet).<br>
<br>
Is the config drive yet available for Diablo??<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
<br>
michaël<br>
<br>
<br>
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<pre>Michaël Van de Borne</pre>
<pre>R&D Engineer, SOA team, CETIC</pre>
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Le 01/12/11 16:29, Anne Gentle a écrit : </p>
<pre>Thanks for the info! I've logged bug 898682 [1] to ensure it gets</pre>
<pre>added to the documentation. Based on this note, is this a solution for</pre>
<pre>Xen only?</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>Is this the same as using a config drive? I had heard a config drive</pre>
<pre>works on KVM but not Xen.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> If someone who's familiar with this area could work on the docs that</pre>
<pre>would be great.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>Thanks,</pre>
<pre>Anne</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/898682" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/898682</a></pre>
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<pre>On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Michaël Van de Borne</pre>
<pre><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:michael.vandeborne@cetic.be" target="_blank"><michael.vandeborne@cetic.be></a> wrote:</pre>
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<pre>It finally works. The problem was the flag checks while looking for the ISO</pre>
<pre>SR.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>inside the find_iso_sr method (in nova/virt/xenapi/vm_utils.py), I found</pre>
<pre>that the ISO SR must have these settings:</pre>
<pre>content type: iso</pre>
<pre>other-config:i18n-key=local-storage-iso</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>As far as I know, this wasn't documented anywhere. Hope this can be useful</pre>
<pre>for people from the future.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>cheers,</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>michaël</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>Michaël Van de Borne</pre>
<pre>R&D Engineer, SOA team, CETIC</pre>
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<pre>Le 29/11/11 23:10, Donal Lafferty a écrit :</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>Off the top of my head, I’d look to see if the compute node can see that ISO</pre>
<pre>SR.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>DL</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>From: Michaël Van de Borne [<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:michael.vandeborne@cetic.be" target="_blank">mailto:michael.vandeborne@cetic.be</a>]</pre>
<pre>Sent: 29 November 2011 18:15</pre>
<pre>To: Donal Lafferty; <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a></pre>
<pre>Subject: Re: [Openstack] boot from ISO</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>Hi Donal, hi all,</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>I'm trying to test the Boot From ISO feature. So I've set a XenServer host</pre>
<pre>and installed a Ubuntu 11.10 PV DomU in it.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>Then I used the following commands but, as you can see in the attached</pre>
<pre>nova-compute log excerpt, there was a problem.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>glance add name=fedora_iso disk_format=iso <</pre>
<pre>../Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-LXDE.iso</pre>
<pre>ID: 4</pre>
<pre>nova boot test_iso --flavor 2 --image 4</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>I can see the ISO images using "nova list" but not using "glance index".</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>The error seems to be: 'Cannot find SR of content-type ISO'. However, I've</pre>
<pre>set a NFS ISO Library using XenCenter, so that there is an actual ISO</pre>
<pre>content-typed SR. How to tell OpenStack to use this SR for the ISO images I</pre>
<pre>post using glance?</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>Any clue? I feel I'm rather close to make it work.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>thanks,</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>michaël</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>Michaël Van de Borne</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>R&D Engineer, SOA team, CETIC</pre>
<pre> </pre>
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<pre>Le 22/11/11 00:18, Donal Lafferty a écrit :</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>Hi Michaël,</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>“Boot from ISO” should be ISO image agnostic. The feature overcomes</pre>
<pre>restrictions placed on the distribution of modified Windows’ images.</pre>
<pre>People can use their ISO instead, but they may still need to use dedicated</pre>
<pre>hardware.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>You should have no problem with a Linux distribution.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>However, I wrote it for XenAPI, so we need someone to duplicate the work for</pre>
<pre>KVM and VMWare.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>DL</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>From: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:openstack-bounces+donal.lafferty=citrix.com@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">openstack-bounces+donal.lafferty=citrix.com@lists.launchpad.net</a></pre>
<pre>[<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:openstack-bounces+donal.lafferty=citrix.com@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">mailto:openstack-bounces+donal.lafferty=citrix.com@lists.launchpad.net</a>] On</pre>
<pre>Behalf Of Michaël Van de Borne</pre>
<pre>Sent: 21 November 2011 17:28</pre>
<pre>To: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a></pre>
<pre>Subject: Re: [Openstack] boot from ISO</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>up? anybody?</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>Le 14/11/11 14:44, Michaël Van de Borne a écrit :</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>Hi all,</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>I'm very interested in the "Boot From ISO" feature described here:</pre>
<pre><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://wiki.openstack.org/bootFromISO" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstack.org/bootFromISO</a></pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>In a few words, it's about the ability to boot a VM from the CDROM with an</pre>
<pre>ISO image attached. A blank hard disk being attached to install the OS files</pre>
<pre>in it.</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>I've got some questions about this:</pre>
<pre>1. Is the feature available today using a standard Diablo install? I've seen</pre>
<pre>the code about this feature is stored under nova/tests and glance/tests.</pre>
<pre>Does this mean it isn't finished yet and could only be tested under specific</pre>
<pre>conditions? Which ones?</pre>
<pre>2. the spec tells about a Windows use case. Why just Windows? What should I</pre>
<pre>do to test with a Linux distribution?</pre>
<pre>3. I can see here that the Xen hypervisor only has been impacted by the</pre>
<pre>source code changes. Are KVM and VMWare planned to be supported in the</pre>
<pre>future? May I help/be helped to develop KVM and VMWare support for this</pre>
<pre>'Boot From Iso' feature?</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>Any help appreaciated</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>thank you,</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>michaël</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>--</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>Michaël Van de Borne</pre>
<pre> </pre>
<pre>R&D Engineer, SOA team, CETIC</pre>
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