Bug 1045289

Summary: [RFE][nova]: VMware: support for ISO boot
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Reporter: RHOS Integration <rhos-integ>
Component: openstack-novaAssignee: Matthew Booth <mbooth>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Jaroslav Henner <jhenner>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: unspecifiedCC: hartsocks, markmc, mbooth, mlopes, ndipanov, sgordon, slong, tjones, vpopovic, yeylon
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: FutureFeature, Triaged
Target Release: 5.0 (RHEL 7)   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
URL: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/vmware-iso-boot
Whiteboard: upstream_milestone_icehouse-rc1 upstream_status_implemented upstream_definition_approved
Fixed In Version: openstack-nova-2014.1-3.el7ost Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Support has been added for VMware instances which boot from an ISO image. Software licensing which prevents the distribution of modified software images is now supported. In particular, this enables compliant creation of Microsoft Windows instances. For more information, see: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/BootFromISO
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Clone Of:
: 1083793 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-07-08 15:27:34 UTC Type: ---
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oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Bug Depends On:    
Bug Blocks: 1055536, 1083793    

Description RHOS Integration 2013-12-20 05:01:16 UTC
Cloned from launchpad blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/vmware-iso-boot.

Description:

Currently the VMware driver does not support this feature. The implementation here adds the ISO boot support to the driver.

Specification URL (additional information):

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/BootFromISO

Comment 2 Stephen Gordon 2014-03-09 14:01:22 UTC
*** Bug 1069431 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Stephen Gordon 2014-05-28 19:33:17 UTC
Looks like this merged upstream after all, can you please confirm and move to MODIFIED or ON_QA as appropriate.

Comment 6 Jaroslav Henner 2014-06-17 12:34:02 UTC
# grep -i '^[^#].*vmwareapi' /etc/*/*.conf
/etc/nova/nova.conf:compute_driver=vmwareapi.VMwareVCDriver
# glance image-create --location http://rhos-qe-mirror-brq.usersys.redhat.com:88/released/RHEL-7/7.0/Server/x86_64/iso/RHEL-7.0-20140507.0-Server-x86_64-boot.iso --container-format bare --disk-format iso --name rhel-7.0
# nova boot --image rhel-7.0 --flavor m1.tiny foo 
# nova show foo | grep ACTIVE
| status                               | ACTIVE                                                 


It boots to the RHEL 7 installation fine. Works.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2014-07-08 15:27:34 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2014-0853.html