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Copyright © 2013 OpenStack Foundation
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2014-04-26
Abstract
This guide describes how to obtain, create, and modify virtual machine images that are compatible with OpenStack.
Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Get images
- 3. OpenStack Linux image requirements
- 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
- 4. Modify images
- 5. Create images manually
- 6. Tool support for image creation
- 7. Converting between image formats
- A. Community support
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