[Openstack] Image management when img has created by libvirt

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 15:03:27 UTC 2012


On 05/31/2012 09:14 AM, Massimo Canonico wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new on openstack, and I hope that this is not a stupid question.
>
> One of my students has created a Fedora 17 image with the following
> procedure:
>
> 1. virt-install -l
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/x86_64/os
> --ram 1024 --disk path=./images/olio-f16_64-$VMM.img,size=10 --name
> olio-f16_64 --graphics vnc,password=qweasdzxc,port=5904,listen=0.0.0.0
> --debug
>
>
>  2. Save XML installation file produced in output by the virt-install
>     program
>     $ vi images/olio-f16_64-$VMM-install.xml
>  3. Save XML boot file produced in output by the virt-install program
>     $ vi images/olio-f16_64-$VMM-boot.xml
>
>
> When a VM image is already available, use it along with a previously
> create XML file:
>
>  1. Create the guest VM
>     $ sudo virsh create images/olio-f16_64-$VMM-boot.xml
>
>
> and so on...
>
> Now I have an image file called olio-f17_64-xen.img, and I would like to
> put it available on my cloudstack. Since in the docs I saw procedures
> for KVM and for VMbuilder, I would like to know how I can upload the
> image created with libvirt in openstack.

Which docs do you refer to regarding KXM and VMBuilder?

thanks,
-jay




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