Hi Curtis, If you're planning to use Windows 7 images with KVM hypervisors, the main steps I follow are:
1- Modify your Windows 7 image to inject virtio drivers (http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers). To do that in a stylish way... you can use the Windows AIK that includes DISM.exe and IMAGEX.exe that let you inject drivers to the WIM files included in Windows 7 installation media. I don't know if you have experiencie with it...but...after mounting the wim files with imagex, you should run something like: "dism /image:C:\path\mount /add-driver /driver:c:\virtiodrivers\win7\x86" * Alternatively: you can just add it during installation from an external media. 2- Use a tool like Aeolus Oz to create the image (you can automate it with unattend.xml files) or the graphical KVM/qemu interface. 3- Convert it to qcow2 and send it to glance. If you need further information, do not hesitate to contact me. Cheers, Luis. PS: You can also test the HyperV support, this way, you could use VHD images. ________________________________________ De: openstack-bounces+luis.fernandez.alvarez=cern...@lists.launchpad.net [openstack-bounces+luis.fernandez.alvarez=cern...@lists.launchpad.net] en nombre de Curtis C. [[email protected]] Enviado el: domingo, 21 de octubre de 2012 1:56 Para: [email protected] Asunto: [Openstack] Finding/Making Windows 7 Images for OpenStack Hi, Has anyone seen any recent documentation on creating Windows 7 images for OpenStack? I know it's supposed to be as easy as using kvm to install it initially (as per the OpenStack docs) then importing that image into glance, but there are some subtle things that I might be missing because I haven't really used Windows in a decade. I've certainly done a lot of searching so if it's a link on the first ten pages page of google I've probably seen it already. :) Perhaps the best thing would be if anyone knew of a virtualbox/vagrant or similar methodology for automatically creating Windows 7 images that I could start from. Someone must be generating new Win 7 images daily for their private cloud somewhere/somehow... :) Any pointers much appreciated. Thanks, Curtis. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
