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[Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>]

You definitely need the libvirt modules. Nova has no way to detect whether the modules are installed so it will try to attach via virtio.

Note that with grizzly you can use custom glance properties to override the default vif type and disk bus. See https://review.openstack.org/#/c/21527/ and https://review.openstack.org/#/c/20161/

Vish

On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Harvey West <harvey.west@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Hi Lloyd 
> 
> Many thanks for the tips. Been a great help. Been trying a few things out.
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 12.4 with OpenStack.
> 
> Created a FreeBSD 9.0 image that works for KVM. i.e.
> kvm-img create -f raw freebsd3.img 10G
> kvm -m 512 -hda freebsd3.img  -cdrom FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso -boot d
> This boots ok.  kvm -m 2048 -hda freeBSD.img -boot c  
> (note: did not use virtio mods. Assumed these were just optimized NIC/SCSI drivers. Which I can live without for the time being)
> 
> Tried to import this freeBSD image into open stack
> i.e. glance add name="freeBSD1" is_public=true disk_format=raw container_format=bare < freeBSD.img
> 
> Can't see any console output from openstack when this instance is started. No entries in console.log.
> 
> Just wondering if I going about this the right way? 
> 
> 
> Harvey
> 
> 
> From: Lloyd Dewolf <lloydostack@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Harvey West <harvey.west@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> Cc: "openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 19:12
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Help with VMs
> 
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Harvey West <harvey.west@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not used openstack or this email forum before.
> 
> Have installed openstack on unbuntu 12.4.1 LTS. Seems to work with the default unbuntu VM image.
> 
> How do I create a new image. I would to create a FreeBSS VM instance. Is this possible?
> 
> Hi Harvey,
> 
> 
> I have not created any BSD images, but as is no surprise it is fully supported by KVM, http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status 
> 
> My searching for "bsd guest kvm" returns a lot of encouraging results, and the content should generally be applicable.
> 
> http://cssoss.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/bundling-freebsd-image-for-openstack/ still looks good, though you'll want to use the native image API (glance client) for uploading the image.
> 
> 
> 
> Hope that helps,
> --
> @lloyddewolf
> http://www.pistoncloud.com/
> 
> 
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