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<!DOCTYPE section PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Publican/DocBook_DTD/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY % BOOK_ENTITIES SYSTEM "cloudstack.ent">
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%BOOK_ENTITIES;
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]>
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<section id="working-with-iso">
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<title>Working with ISOs</title>
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<para>CloudPlatform supports ISOs and their attachment to guest VMs. An ISO is a read-only file that has an ISO/CD-ROM style file system. Users can upload their own ISOs and mount them on their guest VMs.</para>
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<para>ISOs are uploaded based on a URL. HTTP is the supported protocol. Once the ISO is available via HTTP specify an upload URL such as http://my.web.server/filename.iso.</para>
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<para>ISOs may be public or private, like templates.ISOs are not hypervisor-specific. That is, a guest on vSphere can mount the exact same image that a guest on KVM can mount.</para>
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<para>ISO images may be stored in the system and made available with a privacy level similar to templates. ISO images are classified as either bootable or not bootable. A bootable ISO image is one that contains an OS image. CloudPlatform allows a user to boot a guest VM off of an ISO image. Users can also attach ISO images to guest VMs. For example, this enables installing PV drivers into Windows. ISO images are not hypervisor-specific.</para>
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<xi:include href="add-iso.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
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<xi:include href="attach-iso-to-vm.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
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</section>
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