[Openstack] How to create image for first instance (CentOS 6.4)

Cristian Falcas cristi.falcas at gmail.com
Tue Jul 23 08:20:03 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Jake G. <dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com> wrote:
> No matter how I work this I cant seem to create a Centos 6.4 image
> correctly.
>
> I can create a new instance using the qcow2 image I uploaded to Openstack,
> but after booting the instance there is no NICs attached.
> Should I be using a different formatting than qcow2?
>
> I used this doc to create the image ->
> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-image/content/centos-image.html
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jake G. <dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com>
> To: "openstack at lists.launchpad.net" <openstack at lists.launchpad.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 10:07 AM
>
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] How to create image for first instance (CentOS 6.4)
>
> Thanks for all your replies.
>
> I guess I don't understand this a bit. I created a new VM with virt-manager
> then imported the qcow2 file to the glance server, but after deploying an
> instance from the image, I have no existing network adapters or any other
> attached virtual hardware it seems.
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> ________________________________
> From: Staicu Gabriel <gabriel_staicu at yahoo.com>
> To: Jake G. <Dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "openstack at lists.launchpad.net" <openstack at lists.launchpad.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 12:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] How to create image for first instance (CentOS 6.4)
>
> Yes it's ok.
> Or you can use another computer with virt-manager installed which supports
> running windows virtual machines on it. In other words another computer with
> cpu with virtualization feature + kvm + virt-manager.
> If you use the option with another computer you will have to copy the
> resulted qcow2 file resulted from the installation of win7 with virtio
> drivers for net and disk from the computer with virt-manager to the glance
> server.
>
> Regards,
> Gabriel
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jake G. <Dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com>
> To: Brian Schott <brian.schott at nimbisservices.com>
> Cc: "openstack at lists.launchpad.net" <openstack at lists.launchpad.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] How to create image for first instance (CentOS 6.4)
>
> I saw that but I don't have virt-manager on my compute node.
>
> Is it ok to install it?
>
> On 2013/07/18, at 22:19, Brian Schott <brian.schott at nimbisservices.com>
> wrote:
>
> Did this work for you?
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-image/content/centos-image.html
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Brian Schott, CTO
> Nimbis Services, Inc.
> brian.schott at nimbisservices.com
> ph: 443-274-6064  fx: 443-274-6060
>
>
>
> On Jul 18, 2013, at 5:28 AM, "Jake G." <dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I figured this would be the easiest part, but seems not to be.
>
> So creating an instance and booting from a CentOS installation disk doesn't
> work the way I imagined,
> How would you create the image template to use to deploy instances of CentOS
> 6.4? The specs are below:
>
> OS: CentOS 6.4 x8664
> RAM: 1024MB
> HDD: 40GB
> NIC: 1
>
>
> Thank you!
> Jake
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no nic usually means that no network is defined.

Can you check with:

nova-manage network list

Cristi




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