Hi Dan,
Thank you very much for your reply.
?
We tested again and it still does not work, can you give more
information about how the vmdk's were created?
?I.e the tool used to create the debian and trend vmdk's listed here
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaVMware/DeveloperGuide#Glance_Initial_Setup
?
Using qemu-img convert to convert a qcow2 or raw image to vmdk doesn't
seem to work, for example, by using??
qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk <input-file.qcow2> <output-file.vmdk>
??The command always converts to a vmdk which is of adapter type 'ide'
other than lsilogic.?
We modified the adapter type to lsilogic and uploading it to glance by
using,
glance image-create --name=<name> --disk-format=vmdk
--container-format=bare --is-public=true --property
vmware_adaptertype=lsiLogic --property vmware_disktype=thin --property
vmware_ostype=ubuntu64Guest < output-file.vmdk
or
glance image-create --name=<name> --disk-format=vmdk
--container-format=bare --is-public=true --property
vmware_adaptertype=lsiLogic --property vmware-disktype="preallocated"
--property vmware_disktype=thin --property vmware_ostype=ubuntu64Guest <
output-file.vmdk
doesn't seem to work. Even after tying the steps
under https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaVMware/DeveloperGuide#Appendix??
It seems the patch to convert into a scsi disk, has not been merged
yet: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/545089
?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Jason
On 9/12/13 12:48 PM, Dan Wendlandt wrote:
Hi Jason,
The best place to look is the official openstack compute documentation
that covers vSphere in Nova:
http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/vmware.html
In particular, check out the section titled "Images with VMware
vSphere" (pasted below). As that text suggests, the most likely issue
with your VMDK not booting is that you may have passed the wrong
vmware_adaptertype to glance when creating the image. Also note the
statement indicating that all VMDK images must be "flat" (i.e., single
file), otherwise Glance will be confused.
Dan
Images with VMware vSphere
When using either VMware driver, images should be uploaded to the
OpenStack Image Service in the VMDK format. Both thick and thin images
are currently supported and all images must be flat (i.e. contained
within 1 file). For example
To load a thick image with a SCSI adaptor:
$ glance image-create name="ubuntu-thick-scsi" disk_format=vmdk
container_format=bare \
is_public=true --property vmware_adaptertype="lsiLogic" \
--property vmware_disktype="preallocated" \
--property vmware_ostype="ubuntu64Guest" < ubuntuLTS-flat.vmdk
To load a thin image with an IDE adaptor:
$ glance image-create name="unbuntu-thin-ide" disk_format=vmdk
container_format=bare \
is_public=true --property vmware_adaptertype="ide" \
--property vmware_disktype="thin" \
--property vmware_ostype="ubuntu64Guest" < unbuntuLTS-thin-flat.vmdk
The complete list of supported vmware disk properties is documented in
the Image Management section. It's critical that the adaptertype is
correct; In fact, the image will not boot with the incorrect
adaptertype. If you have the meta-data VMDK file the the
ddb.adapterType property specifies the adaptertype. The default
adaptertype is "lsilogic" which is SCSI.
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Jason Zhang <bearovercl...@gmail.com
<mailto:bearovercl...@gmail.com>>wrote:
Hi Dears,
In the
documenthttps://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaVMware/DeveloperGuide
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaVMware/DeveloperGuide>under
the'Get an initial VMDK to work with',
its said, 'There are a lot of "gotchas" around what VMDK disks
work with OpenStack + vSphere,'.
The appendix section lists one of the gotchas. Are there any more
gotchas?
During our testing, the vmdk instance on boot-up gives a
'Operating System not found' error,
I am not sure whether this is a already known issue or not.
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Jason
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