Hello,
As I've had issues to create and customize an instance template using
DevCloud, I would like to share how I finally did it. My goals were to
reuse the TTY Linux template, add some custom programs in the template and
create a boot script; basically to be able to quickly start an
autoconfigured instance.
Resizing the VHD template is achievable using vhd-util :
* Download the TTY template using the Cloudstack web client
* On the Xen host, aka the DevCloud virtualbox VM, you can use vhd-util
vhd-util resize -n mytemplate.vhd -j output.log -s 200 (to extend its
size to 200M)
* On the Xen host create a block device mapped to the VHD file using tap-ctl
here is a sample script to will do it ($1 MUST be an absolute path)
*device=$(tap-ctl allocate)
deviceid=${device#/dev/xen/blktap-2/tapdev}
echo $deviceid
spawn=$(tap-ctl spawn)
pid=${spawn#tapdisk spawned with pid }
echo $pid
tap-ctl attach -p $pid -m $deviceid
tap-ctl open -p $pid -m $deviceid -a vhd:$1
* * Use resize2fs */dev/xen/blktap-2/tapdev...IDOFDEVICE *to expand the
partition size (fsck might be needed, do it)
* Now if you mount the device *mount /dev/xen/blktap-2/tapdevID some_folder
* you should see a partition of 200M instead of the 50M default TTY Linux
template
While you are at it you can edit files since the image is mounted.
* Unmount it when you are done
* Remove the block device
* pid=$1
deviceid=$2
tap-ctl close -m $deviceid -p $pid
tap-ctl detach -m $deviceid -p $pid
tap-ctl free -m $deviceid*
Then can you can import back the VHD template file using the Cloudstack web
client.
I hope it will be helpful to someone, I've been struggling for days to do
it (I'm not familiar with Xen technologies thought).
Youri,
