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KVM SolusVM Templates
Hi guys,
I'm learning how to setup KVM nodes with solusvm. With this being said, I'm able to boot the KVM VPS, create it, etc, but I'm unable to use the TDN templates from solusvm.
I've already downloaded 2 templates: 1 windows, 1 linux.
I've downloaded both of them to /home/solusvm/kvm/template
I've added them on solusvm as the tdn specifies (swap partition, root password, etc).
When reinstalling, the node doesn't do anything with these templates. I was expecting a sudden increase of I/O requests and cpu usage but it's not doing anything.
I also thought that I would need to decompress the templates, but I'm not getting the correct compression or the image isn't compressed at all, since I'm getting errors like:
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
gunzip: linux-centos-5.9-x86_64-min-gen2-v2.gz: not in gzip format
Can anyone point me out to the right direction? Do I need to decompress them or not? Is there something that I might be missing?
Thanks!
Comments
Did you put the templates on both the master and the slave?
I haven't downloaded them to the master, but I've created the file using touch. The slave is the only one that have the template
Actually it needs to be on the master also
Download it to the master, use the command the SolusVM TDN generates then sync the templates from within SolusVM
Touching the files on the master is perfectly acceptable. Do not initiate a transfer of course, but would not cause this sort of issue.
Last I used the templates at TDN, they were weird, some worked some didn't. I just made my own after a while.
What messages do you get in the build log? Admin > VM > Build Log > Load
ahhh, there's an error:
[Jan 29 2015 06:51:40] ########## LOG START ##########
ERROR => libguestfs not found. Try yum install libguestfs-* linux-centos-5.9-x86_64-min-gen2-v2
I've tried to run the yum install but it says it doesn't exist.
running centos 5.11 on the node.
I can see that centos 5 is very old and should not be used. I'm going to reinstall the node using centos 7 and I'll get back here if I find some more issues.
Thank you all for your input
Why not jump to CentOS6?
I've beat you to the punch in 1 minute. I've replied that I'll be reinstalling the node with a more up to date system.
Thanks!
No problem, but looking at the Solus docs it appears CentOS 7 isn't fully supported?
Thanks. I'll make sure I'll install 6 then.
Yes go with c6