48 lines
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48 lines
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="windows-image">
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<title>Example: Microsoft Windows image</title>
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<para>We do not yet have a fully documented example of how to create a Microsoft Windows image.
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You can use libvirt to install Windows from an installation DVD using the same approach as
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with the CentOS and Ubuntu examples. Once the initial install is done, you will need to
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perform some Windows-specific customizations.</para>
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<simplesect>
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<title>Install VirtIO drivers</title>
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<para>Installing the <link
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xlink:href="http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers"
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>VirtIO paravirtualizaion drivers for Windows</link> will improve virtual machine
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performance when using KVM as the hypervisor to run Windows.</para>
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</simplesect>
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<simplesect><title>Sysprep</title>
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<para>Microsoft has a special tool called <link
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xlink:href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766049(v=ws.10).aspx"
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>Sysprep</link> that must be run inside of a Windows guest to prepare it for use as
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a virtual machine image. On Windows, invoke sysprep, as follows:
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<screen><userinput>c:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe</userinput></screen></para>
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</simplesect>
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<simplesect>
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<title>cloudbase-init</title>
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<para><link xlink:href="http://www.cloudbase.it/cloud-init-for-windows-instances/"
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>cloudbase-init</link> is a Windows port of cloud-init that should be installed
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inside of the guest. The <link xlink:href="https://github.com/cloudbase/cloudbase-init"
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>source code</link> is available on GitHub.</para>
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</simplesect>
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<simplesect>
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<title>Jordan Rinke's OpenStack Windows resources</title>
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<para>Jordan Rinke maintains <link xlink:href="https://github.com/jordanrinke/openstack"
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>a collection of resources</link> for managing OpenStack Windows virtual machine
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guests.</para>
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</simplesect>
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<simplesect>
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<title>Windows instances require the timezone to be "localtime"</title>
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<para>When uploading Windows images, you must set the <literal>os_type</literal>
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parameter to <literal>windows</literal>, which causes instances to use the
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local time zone.
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Failing to set this will cause the clock timezone to be UTC, which has unexpected
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side effects in Windows.</para>
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</simplesect>
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</section>
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