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| <section id="import-ami"> |
| <title>Importing Amazon Machine Images</title> |
| <para>The following procedures describe how to import an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) into &PRODUCT; when using the XenServer hypervisor.</para> |
| <para>Assume you have an AMI file and this file is called CentOS_6.2_x64. Assume further that you are working on a CentOS host. If the AMI is a Fedora image, you need to be working on a Fedora host initially.</para> |
| <para>You need to have a XenServer host with a file-based storage repository (either a local ext3 SR or an NFS SR) to convert to a VHD once the image file has been customized on the Centos/Fedora host.</para> |
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| <para></para> |
| <para>To import an AMI:</para> |
| <orderedlist> |
| <listitem><para>Set up loopback on image file:</para><programlisting># mkdir -p /mnt/loop/centos62 |
| # mount -o loop CentOS_6.2_x64 /mnt/loop/centos54 |
| </programlisting></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Install the kernel-xen package into the image. This downloads the PV kernel and ramdisk to the image.</para><programlisting># yum -c /mnt/loop/centos54/etc/yum.conf --installroot=/mnt/loop/centos62/ -y install kernel-xen</programlisting></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Create a grub entry in /boot/grub/grub.conf.</para><programlisting># mkdir -p /mnt/loop/centos62/boot/grub |
| # touch /mnt/loop/centos62/boot/grub/grub.conf |
| # echo "" > /mnt/loop/centos62/boot/grub/grub.conf |
| </programlisting></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Determine the name of the PV kernel that has been installed into the image.</para> |
| <programlisting># cd /mnt/loop/centos62 |
| # ls lib/modules/ |
| 2.6.16.33-xenU 2.6.16-xenU 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.centos.plus 2.6.18-xenU-ec2-v1.0 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen 2.6.31-302-ec2 |
| # ls boot/initrd* |
| boot/initrd-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.centos.plus.img boot/initrd-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen.img |
| # ls boot/vmlinuz* |
| boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.centos.plus boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-xenU-ec2-v1.0 boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2952.fc8xen |
| </programlisting> |
| <para>Xen kernels/ramdisk always end with "xen". For the kernel version you choose, there has to be an entry for that version under lib/modules, there has to be an initrd and vmlinuz corresponding to that. Above, the only kernel that satisfies this condition is 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen.</para></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Based on your findings, create an entry in the grub.conf file. Below is an example entry.</para><programlisting>default=0 |
| timeout=5 |
| hiddenmenu |
| title CentOS (2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen) |
| root (hd0,0) |
| kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen ro root=/dev/xvda |
| initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen.img |
| </programlisting></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Edit etc/fstab, changing “sda1” to “xvda” and changing “sdb” to “xvdb”.</para> |
| <programlisting># cat etc/fstab |
| /dev/xvda / ext3 defaults 1 1 |
| /dev/xvdb /mnt ext3 defaults 0 0 |
| none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 |
| none /proc proc defaults 0 0 |
| none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 |
| </programlisting></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Enable login via the console. The default console device in a XenServer system is xvc0. Ensure that etc/inittab and etc/securetty have the following lines respectively:</para> |
| <programlisting># grep xvc0 etc/inittab |
| co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty xvc0 9600 vt100-nav |
| # grep xvc0 etc/securetty |
| xvc0 |
| </programlisting></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Ensure the ramdisk supports PV disk and PV network. Customize this for the kernel version you have determined above.</para> |
| <programlisting># chroot /mnt/loop/centos54 |
| # cd /boot/ |
| # mv initrd-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen.img initrd-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen.img.bak |
| # mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen.img --with=xennet --preload=xenblk --omit-scsi-modules 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen |
| </programlisting></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Change the password.</para> |
| <programlisting># passwd |
| Changing password for user root. |
| New UNIX password: |
| Retype new UNIX password: |
| passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. |
| </programlisting></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Exit out of chroot.</para><programlisting># exit</programlisting></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Check etc/ssh/sshd_config for lines allowing ssh login using a password.</para> |
| <programlisting># egrep "PermitRootLogin|PasswordAuthentication" /mnt/loop/centos54/etc/ssh/sshd_config |
| PermitRootLogin yes |
| PasswordAuthentication yes |
| </programlisting></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>If you need the template to be enabled to reset passwords from the &PRODUCT; UI or API, |
| install the password change script into the image at this point. See |
| <xref linkend="add-password-management-to-templates"/>.</para></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Unmount and delete loopback mount.</para><programlisting># umount /mnt/loop/centos54 |
| # losetup -d /dev/loop0 |
| </programlisting></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Copy the image file to your XenServer host's file-based storage repository. In the example below, the Xenserver is "xenhost". This XenServer has an NFS repository whose uuid is a9c5b8c8-536b-a193-a6dc-51af3e5ff799.</para> |
| <programlisting># scp CentOS_6.2_x64 xenhost:/var/run/sr-mount/a9c5b8c8-536b-a193-a6dc-51af3e5ff799/</programlisting></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Log in to the Xenserver and create a VDI the same size as the image.</para> |
| <programlisting>[root@xenhost ~]# cd /var/run/sr-mount/a9c5b8c8-536b-a193-a6dc-51af3e5ff799 |
| [root@xenhost a9c5b8c8-536b-a193-a6dc-51af3e5ff799]# ls -lh CentOS_6.2_x64 |
| -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10G Mar 16 16:49 CentOS_6.2_x64 |
| [root@xenhost a9c5b8c8-536b-a193-a6dc-51af3e5ff799]# xe vdi-create virtual-size=10GiB sr-uuid=a9c5b8c8-536b-a193-a6dc-51af3e5ff799 type=user name-label="Centos 6.2 x86_64" |
| cad7317c-258b-4ef7-b207-cdf0283a7923 |
| </programlisting></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Import the image file into the VDI. This may take 10–20 minutes.</para><programlisting>[root@xenhost a9c5b8c8-536b-a193-a6dc-51af3e5ff799]# xe vdi-import filename=CentOS_6.2_x64 uuid=cad7317c-258b-4ef7-b207-cdf0283a7923</programlisting></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Locate a the VHD file. This is the file with the VDI’s UUID as its name. Compress it and upload it to your web server.</para> |
| <programlisting>[root@xenhost a9c5b8c8-536b-a193-a6dc-51af3e5ff799]# bzip2 -c cad7317c-258b-4ef7-b207-cdf0283a7923.vhd > CentOS_6.2_x64.vhd.bz2 |
| [root@xenhost a9c5b8c8-536b-a193-a6dc-51af3e5ff799]# scp CentOS_6.2_x64.vhd.bz2 webserver:/var/www/html/templates/ |
| </programlisting></listitem> |
| </orderedlist> |
| </section> |