[Openstack] Finding/Making Windows 7 Images for OpenStack

Luis Fernandez Alvarez luis.fernandez.alvarez at cern.ch
Mon Oct 22 09:11:59 UTC 2012


Hi Curtis,

If you're planning to use Windows 7 images with KVM hypervisors, the main steps I follow are:

1- Modify your Windows 7 image to inject virtio drivers (http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers).
    To do that in a stylish way... you can use the Windows AIK that includes DISM.exe and IMAGEX.exe that
    let you inject drivers to the WIM files included in Windows 7 installation media.
    I don't know if you have experiencie with it...but...after mounting the wim files with imagex, you should run
    something like: "dism /image:C:\path\mount /add-driver /driver:c:\virtiodrivers\win7\x86"
    * Alternatively: you can just add it during installation from an external media.
2- Use a tool like Aeolus Oz to create the image (you can automate it with unattend.xml files) or the graphical KVM/qemu interface.
3- Convert it to qcow2 and send it to glance.

If you need further information, do not hesitate to contact me.

Cheers,

Luis.

PS: You can also test the HyperV support, this way, you could use VHD images.


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De: openstack-bounces+luis.fernandez.alvarez=cern.ch at lists.launchpad.net [openstack-bounces+luis.fernandez.alvarez=cern.ch at lists.launchpad.net] en nombre de Curtis C. [serverascode at gmail.com]
Enviado el: domingo, 21 de octubre de 2012 1:56
Para: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
Asunto: [Openstack] Finding/Making Windows 7 Images for OpenStack

Hi,

Has anyone seen any recent documentation on creating Windows 7 images
for OpenStack? I know it's supposed to be as easy as using kvm to
install it initially (as per the OpenStack docs) then importing that
image into glance, but there are some subtle things that I might be
missing because I haven't really used Windows in a decade. I've
certainly done a lot of searching so if it's a link on the first ten
pages page of google I've probably seen it already. :)

Perhaps the best thing would be if anyone knew of a virtualbox/vagrant
or similar methodology for automatically creating Windows 7 images
that I could start from. Someone must be generating new Win 7 images
daily for their private cloud somewhere/somehow... :)

Any pointers much appreciated.

Thanks,
Curtis.

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