openstack-manuals/doc/image-guide/ch_obtaining_images.xml
Christian Berendt d84da4ac58 Unified the syntax of the XML root element (image-guide)
The XML root element of Docbook XML files should match the following
format:

<ELEMENT xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
  xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
  version="5.0"
  xml:id="THE_XML_ID_OF_THE_ELEMENT">

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
version="5.0"
xml:id="ch_obtaining_images">
<title>Get images</title>
<?dbhtml stop-chunking?>
<para>The simplest way to obtain a virtual machine image that works with OpenStack is to
download one that someone else has already created.</para>
<section xml:id="cirros-images">
<title>CirrOS (test) images</title>
<para>CirrOS is a minimal Linux distribution that was designed for use as a test image on
clouds such as OpenStack Compute. You can download a CirrOS image in various formats
from the <link xlink:href="https://launchpad.net/cirros/+download">CirrOS Launchpad
download page</link>.</para>
<para>If your deployment uses QEMU or KVM, we recommend using the images in qcow2
format. The most recent 64-bit qcow2 image as of this writing is <link
xlink:href="http://download.cirros-cloud.net/0.3.2/cirros-0.3.2-x86_64-disk.img"
>cirros-0.3.2-x86_64-disk.img</link>
<note>
<para>In a CirrOS image, the login account is <literal>cirros</literal>. The
password is <literal>cubswin:)</literal></para>
</note></para>
</section>
<section xml:id="ubuntu-images">
<title>Official Ubuntu images</title>
<para>Canonical maintains an <link xlink:href="http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/">official
set of Ubuntu-based images</link>.</para>
<para>Images are arranged by Ubuntu release, and by image release date, with "current" being
the most recent. For example, the page that contains the most recently built image for
Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" is <link
xlink:href="http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/"
>http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/</link>. Scroll to the bottom of the
page for links to images that can be downloaded directly.</para>
<para>If your deployment uses QEMU or KVM, we recommend using the images in qcow2
format. The most recent version of the 64-bit QCOW2 image for Ubuntu 12.04 is <link
xlink:href="http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img"
>precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img</link>.<note>
<para>In an Ubuntu cloud image, the login account is
<literal>ubuntu</literal>.</para>
</note></para>
</section>
<section xml:id="redhat-images">
<title>Official Red Hat Enterprise Linux images</title>
<para>
Red Hat maintains official Red Hat Enterprise Linux cloud
images. A valid Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription is required
to download these images:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/69/ver=/rhel---7/7.0/x86_64/product-downloads"
>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 KVM Guest Image</link>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=16952"
>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 KVM Guest Image</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="fedora-images">
<title>Official Fedora images</title>
<para>The Fedora project maintains a list of official cloud images at
<link xlink:href="http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/" />. The images
include the <systemitem class="process">cloud-init</systemitem>
utility to support key and user data injection. The default user
name is <systemitem class="username">fedora</systemitem>.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="suse-sles-images">
<title>Official openSUSE and SLES images</title>
<para>SUSE does not provide openSUSE or SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server (SLES) images for direct download. Instead, they
provide a web-based tool called <link
xlink:href="http://susestudio.com">SUSE Studio</link>
that you can use to build openSUSE and SLES images.</para>
<para>For example, Christian Berendt used <link xlink:href="http://www.opensuse.org">openSUSE</link> to create
<link xlink:href="http://susestudio.com/a/YRUrwO/testing-instance-for-openstack-opensuse-12-3">
a test openSUSE 12.3 image</link>.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="other-distros">
<title>Official images from other Linux distributions</title>
<para>As of this writing, we are not aware of other distributions that provide images for download.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="rcb-images">
<title>Rackspace Cloud Builders (multiple distros)
images</title>
<para>Rackspace Cloud Builders maintains a list of pre-built images from various
distributions (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu). Links to these images can be found at
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/rackerjoe/oz-image-build"
>rackerjoe/oz-image-build on Github</link>.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="windows-images">
<title>Microsoft Windows images</title>
<para>Cloudbase Solutions hosts an <link xlink:href="http://www.cloudbase.it/ws2012/"
>OpenStack Windows Server 2012 Standard Evaluation image</link> that runs on
Hyper-V, KVM, and XenServer/XCP.</para>
</section>
</chapter>