VM

Win32 Machines

• python has to be installed and in the path
• ssh public key added in .ssh/authorized_keys (use echo in windows sh to copy the key)

How to get a QCow2 Windows VM + VirtIO for Openstack from a Official Vagrant Win32 Microsoft VM

• download the vagrant win7-32 VM (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/)

• create a Vagrant file and run vagrant up

• download virtio-win iso drivers (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/quick-docs/en-US/creating-windows-virtual-machines-using-virtio-drivers.html)

• mount the iso in the VM as cdrom

• copy the files in C:\Users\IEUser\virtiodrivers

• convert to QCow2 using qemu-img convert

    qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 image.vmdk image.qcow2
  

• upload to Openstack

   openstack image create --disk-format qcow2 --file win7_32.qcow2 win7_32
  

• set the hardware disk bus to ide (Don't reboot the machine)

    openstack image set --property hw_disk_bus='ide' win7_32
  

• install manually the drivers (baloon and ethernet)

How to rearm the Win image when the temporary licens expires ( 3 months )

• On a sysadmin command prompt ( from vagrant you should already be sysadm )

    slmgr -rearm