From VMware to Xen

Posted on October 30, 2015 by ebl

In this article I would like to give a short instruction how to convert multipart vmdk images into single file (raw) images to use on a Xen host. My environment is a SLES11-SP4 Xen hosts, the instances I want to run are SLES12 VMs created with VMware. Continue reading →

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SUSE Cloud 5: attached block-devices are not available

Posted on September 30, 2015 by ebl

This article describes what you could be facing when trying to attach devices (such as ISO images from SLES12-DVD) to cloud instances. Even though the Horizon UI reports success that your ISO has been attached to your instance it’s possible that you can’t access the contents. Continue reading →

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SUSE Cloud 5: considerations about cloud-init, meta-data, user-data and config-drive

Posted on September 16, 2015 by ebl

This article refers to a SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5 environment. Both, admin and control node run with SLES11 as does one of the two compute nodes, the other compute node runs with SLES12.
I’ve had my share trying to provide user-data to my instances, regardless if I used config-drive or the meta-data service. Continue reading →

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