OpenStack Virtual Machine Image Guide¶
Abstract¶
This guide describes how to obtain, create, and modify virtual machine images that are compatible with OpenStack.
Contents¶
- Conventions
- Introduction
- Get images
- Image requirements
- Linux
- Disk partitions and resize root partition on boot (cloud-init)
- No hard-coded MAC address information
- Ensure ssh server runs
- Disable firewall
- Access instance by using ssh public key (cloud-init)
- Process user data and other metadata (cloud-init)
- Ensure image writes boot log to console
- Paravirtualized Xen support in the kernel (Xen hypervisor only)
- Manage the image cache
- Modify images
- Create images manually
- Tools to automate image creation
- Converting between image formats
- Image sharing
- Appendix
