Physical CD-ROM support to make ISOs

Submitted by emilicus on Mon, 12/20/2010 - 16:28

Hello, just a couple of days on cm - so pretty newbye user... We plan to install the managed systems (xen hosts) to our customer's offices. From its office, each single customer should access and use their xen host(s) and the relative (almost windows) guests on it.

I searched for about 1 hour a simple way to create a ISO image starting from the CD-ROM reader on the physical xen host (the one installed to the customer) and have that iso added to the "image repository" of that host.

Second step is the ability to "attach" any of the ISOs in the virtual CD-ROM reader on any of the VMs running on the Xen host system. (both windows and linux VMs)

Is there a way to accomplish this?

TIA

Emilicus

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

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Submitted by JamieCameron on Mon, 12/20/2010 - 18:11

There isn't any built-in support in Cloudmin for creating an ISO from a physical CD, but you can create a .iso file on the host with a command like :

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/xen/your-distro.iso

You can then create an image from that ISO, at New System Images -> Create Image for Xen. Just select "File on managed system", choose the host from the menu, and enter /xen/your-distro.iso as the path. In the "Image file format" field, choose "CD or DVD ISO".

Does this work for you?

Submitted by emilicus on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 05:33

hello Jamie, thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, this doesn't help so much.

As i've mentioned, we install physical xen host in customer's offices. Our customer aren't a skilled PC persons so we cannot setup system that force customers to access as root to a linux system, make some iso and then make them available to each VM they need iso onto.

They need a simple point and click interface with VERY simple options to get the job done.

So the question: could you provide professional support in order to customize/adapt cloudmin to our needs?

If so, we need just 3-4 customizations in order to have a final user-friendly gui in a couple of areas of cludmin. Could you do that?

TIA

Emilicus

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 12:37

I've actually started working on adding support for creating a new cloudmin system image from a phyical CD on a host system, which will be included in the next release. This will avoid the need to run any commands as root via SSH ..

What other customizations were you interested in? If they make sense for all users, I will be happy to add them to Cloudmin ..

Submitted by emilicus on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 15:06

good news Jamie. Hope the physical CD imaging will be out soon...

For the rest of the customizations, if you prefer i'll start another thread from scratch.

Emilicus

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 01:54

I have just completed implementation of image creation from CD, for inclusion in the next Cloudmin release.

Submitted by Issues on Thu, 01/06/2011 - 02:04

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.