Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:00:32 -0700 From: Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> To: Carsten Heesch <ch@sysconfig.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softlayer VPS: Loading FreeBSD Message-ID: <B6B22B33-980C-444B-874A-EE9ED0784FDD@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <557A0B64.9050808@sysconfig.org.uk> References: <6277AB8E-EDF5-436A-B1A9-5C041041E165@hub.org> <CAKE2PDtCki%2B7v3wN5BNoao8v3eiqgZb_0q27hocjqgANObaEbg@mail.gmail.com> <64385A15-591B-4933-BD83-45EAA5A372C5@hub.org> <557A0B64.9050808@sysconfig.org.uk>
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Marc G Fournier Owner, Hub.Org <http://hub.org/>; Hosting Solutions S.A. > On Jun 11, 2015, at 15:27, Carsten Heesch <ch@sysconfig.org.uk> wrote: >=20 >=20 >> That gave us IPMI access for the Bare Metal server we put in place, >> but no KVM access for VPS =E2=80=A6 for VPS, I need to create an ISO = of my >> install, upload that and then they effectively =E2=80=98dd=E2=80=99 = it to the VPS, >> which is cool, but I need to figure out how to create an image based >> on a VirtualBox build on a Mac OS X system :) >=20 > If they really just "dd" it, then a RAW image of your Virtualbox > instance should work, shouldn't it? I knew when I typed this that I shouldn=E2=80=99t have .. :) I don=E2=80= =99t know what they do exactly, getting info out of htem is like pulling = teeth =E2=80=A6 so far, I=E2=80=99m not even sure what I should be = setting for ethernet configuration, although I=E2=80=99m suspecting = =E2=80=9CDHCP=E2=80=9D, else I=E2=80=99d have to load a new ISO for each = VPS I=E2=80=99m setting up =E2=80=A6 > Choose QCOW as the disk format in VirtualBox, and then use "qemu-img > convert" to make a raw image. I have several FreeBSD boxes, so if there is a method of converting from = =E2=80=9CXYZ -> ISO=E2=80=9D using FreeBSD, that is cool too =E2=80=A6 I = can make / configure the image on my desktop, upload to my server and do = the conversion there =E2=80=A6 I can use qemu-img to pretty much convert to any format (except ISO) =E2=80= =A6 but how do I get to that final step? Thinking this through =E2=80=A6 ppl make livecd=E2=80=99s, so this is = obviously possible =E2=80=A6 does it make sense that that is all I need = to do? Although I=E2=80=99ve never done it, mind you, but if I were to = upload a regular liveCD, and they installed / booted that, that should = be it =E2=80=A6 or am I overlookign something?
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