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Tried it but once in qcow2 format virtualbox does not even boot.  It
boots the vdi or raw image with /dev/sda but not qcow2.  Here is what
I see in openstack when I try to boot.

Thanks again for your help with this.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Nasir Mahmood <nasir.mahmood at gmail.com> wrote:
> Best idea is to convert the vmdk or the virtualbox image directly to qcow2
> format like below and then do all those customizations later on.
>
> qemu-img convert CentOS-TEMPLATE-disk1.vmdk -O qcow2
> CentOS-TEMPLATE-disk1.qcow2
>
> You might have to change the syntax .
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am new to openstack and have been using images provided by others in
> my test cloud.  However, I am trying to so some customization and need
> to build my own image.  I built CentOS 7.1 on my virtualbox instance
> and went through the following steps:
>
> --
> /etc/default/grub - fixed this file to get console working
> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> echo "NOZEROCONF=yes" >> /etc/sysconfig/network
> yum install acpid -y
> systemctl enable acpid
> systemctl disable firewalld
> yum install cloud-init -y
> yum install cloud-utils-growpart -y
> cleanup /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*
> --
>
> Just want to get a basic image working before I do any customization.
> After following these steps (I choose qcow as the virtualbox image
> format) I upload the image into my cluster using:
>
> glance image-create --name "testimg3" --disk-format qcow2
> --container-format bare --file centos71.qcow --progress
>
> However, when deploying from this image I see that on console the boot
> drive is not being found.  Now, on my virtualbox the local drive shows
> up as /dev/sda* but in kvm it is /dev/vda*.  I haven't read anywhere
> in the docs that there is something that I need to do for this but
> seems like what is missing.  Is there something that needs to be done
> on my virtualbox instance before shutting it down to make sure the
> correct disk is found and the os can boot.  In the fstab I see that
> the disk is being referenced with uuid in my virtualbox instance.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks.
>
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