This ensure that all logical volume names are unique. REPLACE 'X: WITH YOUR GROUP NUMBER: For example, on host2, use 'tiny2' in place of 'tinyX'. Now create a logical volume of exactly that size. Let's just check this is exactly 1GiB, using a calculator program bc: # bc (Note that this is using Gibibytes, where 1GiB = 1024^3 bytes) What you need to know is the size of the disk drive which is being emulated, and you can find this out using qemu-img info # qemu-img info Tiny_Linux_VM-disk1.vmdk That doesn't tell us much, because a VMDK file is an image which grows as it is used. Have a look at the file you're going to use: # ls -l /iso/Tiny_Linux_VM-disk1.vmdk For example, if you are working with host2 then login to host2, not the cluster master node. Importing a VMDKĭo this part of this exercise on whichever host you want the virtual machine to be created on. This will work efficiently because there will be no fragmentation on the host it can also be converted easily to DRBD if you wish. Since Ganeti won't work directly with vmdk files, you are going to convert it into a logical volume.

You are going to import a tiny Ubuntu 14.04 installation called 'JeOS' from the vmdk software appliance provided. Create a VM from a downloaded virtual machine image file.mpack Site Moderator Posts: 38137 Joined: 4.Ganeti VM using an existing disk image file Objectives

It's just a folder on the host PC which VirtualBox will treat as the contents of a data CD. (**) An 'Ad Hoc ISO' is not an actual ISO file. Macrium takes care of correcting partition sizes, converting between EFI and MBR BIOSes etc. Then you boot the VM from the ad-hoc ISO. No need to install an OS, just create the VM. You create a VM which is compatible with the physical PC as best you can. This ISO can be reused for future P2V projects. You first create an 'ad hoc' ISO which contains the Macrium Restore CD files plus your macrium backup image. (*) Macrium Reflect is a backup tool, not a P2V tool, however it's almost as easy to use. So in either case you should convert to VDI before use.įor optimum performance you would share CPU and RAM resources equitably with the host, install the GAs and locate the VM on an SSD. The performance questions regarding VMDK (or VHD) are moot, because neither is the preferred format for use in VirtualBox. You can also image the physical PC with Disk2VHD, or use a commercial (with free version) tool such as Macrium Reflect (*).

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