Hi,
So we've done our testing and are at our last "trial" which is templating. We've gotten the whole dd block copy working but that method is very slow and taxing on system resources so we have been trying to just copy harddrive contents but it does not seem to take.
These are the steps that we take
1) Create VM with iSCSI storage
2) FDISK the iSCSI LV and create a partition (we did starting at 2048 to end)
3) Extract 512bytes of a KVM image and then Copy first 446 bytes of a MBR (have tried copying 2047 bytes as well)
4) KPARTX -av to open the LV
5) mkfs.ext4 on the partition created above in /dev/mapper
6) mount it to a folder
7) copy the contents of a KVM .raw image mounted to the folder above
8) unmount all
and restart server - it keeps saying "booting from hard drive and just waits ... clearly it's not seeing grub or the bootloader - anything we can do here?
So we've done our testing and are at our last "trial" which is templating. We've gotten the whole dd block copy working but that method is very slow and taxing on system resources so we have been trying to just copy harddrive contents but it does not seem to take.
These are the steps that we take
1) Create VM with iSCSI storage
2) FDISK the iSCSI LV and create a partition (we did starting at 2048 to end)
3) Extract 512bytes of a KVM image and then Copy first 446 bytes of a MBR (have tried copying 2047 bytes as well)
4) KPARTX -av to open the LV
5) mkfs.ext4 on the partition created above in /dev/mapper
6) mount it to a folder
7) copy the contents of a KVM .raw image mounted to the folder above
8) unmount all
and restart server - it keeps saying "booting from hard drive and just waits ... clearly it's not seeing grub or the bootloader - anything we can do here?
