OpenNebula includes an Image Repository component to ease the management of multiple disk images. Each disk image can contain an operating system or application data.
Even in this case, you need to prepare a template file to be submitted to OpenNebula frontend, in order to create a new disk image.
Let us see a simple OS disk image using the following code:
NAME = "Ubuntu Server" PATH = /tmp/ubuntu.img TYPE = OS PUBLIC = YES DESCRIPTION = "Ubuntu server basic installation"
Please understand that you need to submit an existing disk image (with the operating system already installed). You can prepare a disk image using standard virtualization tools, such as virt-manager, VirtualBox, or the VMware vSphere for ESXi, on your desktop PC.
Be aware that the disk image should be in the proper format to be recognized and used by the hypervisor:
Hypervisor |
Disk image format |
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KVM |
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Xen |
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VMware |
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It is even...