I have
* machine 1: Fedora 16 with BoxGrinder 0.10
* machine 2: CentOS 6.2, configured as KVM host with libvirt
I want to create a VM with boxgrinder-build and transfer the machine to my KVM host. Delivery plugin: libvirt
setting in /root/.boxgrinder/config:
plugins:
fedora:
format: qcow2
centos:
format: qcow2
libvirt:
connection_uri: qemu+ssh://root@kvmhostname/system
image_delivery_uri: sftp://root@kvmhostname/var/lib/libvirt/images
bus: virtio
overwrite: true
settings in centos.appl:
name: centos6-bg
summary: CentOS installation with BoxGrinder
os:
name: centos
version: 6
hardware:
partitions:
"/":
size: 4
packages:
- @core
build command:
boxgrinder-build centos62.appl -d libvirt
almost everything works fine, with one minor exception: In the xml file with the virtual machine description for libvirt (/etc/libvirt/qemu/centos62-xxx.xml), the disk image format is raw instead of qcow2:
<domain type='qemu'>
...
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
I have to manually correct this before I can start the virtual machine.
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PS: on http://boxgrinder.org/tutorials/boxgrinder-build-plugins/#libvirt_Delivery_Plugin is a minor typo in the example of the 'bus' option:
# Default: precalculated value, as described above.
# Examples:
virt_type: virtio
virt_type: ide
should be:
# Default: precalculated value, as described above.
# Examples:
bus: virtio
bus: ide
