How to boot a virtual machine created from public stemcells

Ruslan K

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Jul 26, 2012, 10:52:59 AM7/26/12

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Hello

Public stemcell contains the raw disk (or volume) image. This image contains the OS + agent, but does not contains boot loader. This image may not be used directly to run the virtual machine. As I see.

Questions:

1. How do I get the disk to start the virtual machine from a stem cell? (The Upload_stemcall method does not contains the necessary commands. I found only the following shell-command: tar-xzf image-O root.img | dd of = ...)

2. Boot Record, and other transformations occur during the deployment?

3. The public stemcell is not intended to create a virtual machine?

Thanks!

Ruslan Karachun

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Jul 30, 2012, 3:18:36 AM7/30/12

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Hello.

Who can help?

Thanks!

Vadim Spivak

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Jul 30, 2012, 3:29:08 AM7/30/12

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Which CPI are you using? AWS?

-Vadim

Ruslan Karachun

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Jul 30, 2012, 5:02:17 AM7/30/12

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I use AWS. For different cloud providers different stemcells?
Please explain.
Thanks.

Vadim Spivak

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Jul 30, 2012, 5:18:26 AM7/30/12

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On AWS we use PV GRUB: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/UserProvidedkernels.html

-Vadim

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