[Openstack] [heat][nova][cinder]Mount a CD-ROM ISO to an instance

pnkk pnkk2016 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 18:18:47 UTC 2016


Thank you both!
Eugen, I thought of checking if we can use this iso as a block device by
specifying the device type as cdom
Pavlo, will try out to see how it works, thanks for the links

Regards,
Kanthi

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Pavlo Shchelokovskyy <
pshchelokovskyy at mirantis.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> do you mean the configdrive? It is iso9660 filesystem image attached to vm
> on boot by Nova and containing the bootstrap configuration for VM and is
> used by cloud-init [0]
>
> You can force creation of configdrive for a particular instance via Heat
> template too [1]
>
> [0] http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/cli_config_drive.html
> [1]
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/template_guide/openstack.html#OS::Nova::Server-prop-config_drive
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dr. Pavlo Shchelokovskyy
> Senior Software Engineer
> Mirantis Inc
> www.mirantis.com
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 11:20 AM, pnkk <pnkk2016 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can you please suggest a way to mount a cdrom iso to a instance during
>> boot time along with the actual image.
>>
>> That iso has the bootstrap configuration needed for the VM.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kanthi
>>
>>
>>
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