Bug 1045289 - [RFE][nova]: VMware: support for ISO boot
Summary: [RFE][nova]: VMware: support for ISO boot
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openstack-nova
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 5.0 (RHEL 7)
Assignee: Matthew Booth
QA Contact: Jaroslav Henner
URL: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova...
Whiteboard: upstream_milestone_icehouse-rc1 upstr...
: 1069431 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 1055536 1083793
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-12-20 05:01 UTC by RHOS Integration
Modified: 2019-09-09 16:24 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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
Clone Of:
: 1083793 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-07-08 15:27:34 UTC
Target Upstream Version:

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Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2014:0853 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Enhancement - Compute 2014-07-08 19:22:38 UTC

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
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