<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div>Hi Lloyd </div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Many thanks for the tips. Been a great help. Been trying a few things out.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><div style="background-color: transparent;">I'm running Ubuntu 12.4 with OpenStack.</div><div><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Created a FreeBSD 9.0 image that works for KVM. i.e.</div><div style="background-color:
transparent;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19.985795974731445px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.985795974731445px;">kvm-img create -f raw freebsd3.img 10G</span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.985795974731445px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.985795974731445px;"><span style="line-height: 19.985795974731445px;">kvm -m 512 -hda freebsd3.img -cdrom FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso -boot d</span><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.985795974731445px; background-color: transparent;">This boots ok. kvm -m 2048 -hda freeBSD.img -boot c </span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial,
'Droid Sans', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, Droid Sans, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.985795974731445px;">(note: did not use virtio mods. Assumed these were just </span></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, Droid Sans, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.984375px;">optimized</span></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, Droid Sans, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.985795974731445px;"> NIC/SCSI drivers. Which I can live without for the time being)</span></font><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.985795974731445px; background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; background-color:
transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.985795974731445px; background-color: transparent;">Tried to import this freeBSD image into open stack</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.985795974731445px; background-color: transparent;">i.e. glance add name="freeBSD1" is_public=true disk_format=raw container_format=bare < freeBSD.img</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.985795974731445px; background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.984375px;">Can't see any console output from openstack when this instance is started. No entries in console.log.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans',
sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.984375px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.984375px;">Just wondering if I going about this the right way? </span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.984375px;">Harvey</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.984375px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span
style="line-height: 19.984375px;"><br></span></div></div> <div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Lloyd Dewolf <lloydostack@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Harvey West <harvey.west@btinternet.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "openstack@lists.launchpad.net" <openstack@lists.launchpad.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 19:12<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Openstack] Help with VMs<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1658532745"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Harvey West <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow"
ymailto="mailto:harvey.west@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:harvey.west@btinternet.com">harvey.west@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="yiv1658532745gmail_extra"><div class="yiv1658532745gmail_quote">
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<div>Not used openstack or this email forum before.</div><div><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:tahoma,;">Have installed openstack on unbuntu 12.4.1 <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Ubuntu, Arial,;font-size:1.438em;line-height:1.3;background-color:transparent;">LTS</span>. Seems to work with the default <span style="font-size:12pt;">unbuntu VM image.</span></div>
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do I create a new image. I would to create a FreeBSS VM instance. Is this possible?</div><span class="yiv1658532745"><font color="#888888"><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:tahoma,;">
</div></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="">Hi Harvey,</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">I have not created any BSD images, but as is no surprise it is fully supported by KVM, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status">http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status</a> </div>
<div style=""><br></div><div style="">My searching for "bsd guest kvm" returns a lot of encouraging results, and the content should generally be applicable.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cssoss.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/bundling-freebsd-image-for-openstack/">http://cssoss.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/bundling-freebsd-image-for-openstack/</a> still looks good, though you'll want to use the native image API (glance client) for uploading the image.<br>
</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><br></div><div><br></div></div>Hope that helps,</div><div class="yiv1658532745gmail_extra">--<br>@lloyddewolf<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.pistoncloud.com/">http://www.pistoncloud.com/</a>
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