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1. The buildsystemvm.sh script builds a 32-bit system vm disk based on the Debian Squeeze distro. This system vm can boot on any hypervisor thanks to the pvops support in the kernel. It is fully automated
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2. The files under config/ are the specific tweaks to the default Debian configuration that are required for CloudStack operation.
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3. The variables at the top of the buildsystemvm.sh script can be customized:
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IMAGENAME=systemvm # dont touch this
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LOCATION=/var/lib/images/systemvm #
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MOUNTPOINT=/mnt/$IMAGENAME/ # this is where the image is mounted on your host while the vm image is built
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IMAGELOC=$LOCATION/$IMAGENAME.img
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PASSWORD=password # password for the vm
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APT_PROXY= #you can put in an APT cacher such as apt-cacher-ng
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HOSTNAME=systemvm # dont touch this
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SIZE=2000 # dont touch this for now
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DEBIAN_MIRROR=ftp.us.debian.org/debian
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MINIMIZE=true # if this is true, a lot of docs, fonts, locales and apt cache is wiped out
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4. The systemvm includes the (non-free) Sun JRE. You can put in the standard debian jre-headless package instead but it pulls in X and bloats the image.
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5. You need to be 'root' to run the buildsystemvm.sh script
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6. The image is a raw image. You can run the convert.sh tool to produce images suitable for Citrix Xenserver, VMWare and KVM.
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* Conversion to Citrix Xenserver VHD format requires the vhd-util tool. You can use the
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-- checked in config/bin/vhd-util) OR
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-- build the vhd-util tool yourself as follows:
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a. The xen repository has a tool called vhd-util that compiles and runs on any linux system (http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg?file/8e8dd38374e9/tools/blktap2/vhd/ or full Xen source at http://www.xen.org/products/xen_source.html).
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b. Apply this patch: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=xen-devel&i=006101cb22f6%242004dd40%24600e97c0%24%40zhuo%40cloudex.cn.
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c. Build the vhd-util tool
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cd tools/blktap2
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make
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sudo make install
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* Conversion to ova (VMWare) requires the ovf tool, available from
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http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vsphere/automationtools/ovf
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* Conversion to QCOW2 requires qemu-img
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