From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 11 23:00:37 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A4CBAB5 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:00:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.208.146]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 41E3A1600 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:00:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.106]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 909B71FF4131; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 20:00:35 -0300 (ADT) Authentication-Results: hub.org; dkim=pass reason="1024-bit key" header.d=hub.org header.i=@hub.org header.b=kYmbAGgU; dkim-adsp=pass Received: from hub.org ([200.46.208.146]) by localhost (maia.hub.org [200.46.208.106]) (maiad, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28597-04; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 20:00:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (S01067cb21b2ff4ca.gv.shawcable.net [24.108.26.71]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 809251FF4130; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 20:00:34 -0300 (ADT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=hub.org; s=huborg; t=1434063634; bh=eAcST6gsUmSINjE91eb01YT/fARHTAYRQlHFtMDuIMI=; h=Subject:From:In-Reply-To:Date:Cc:References:To; b=kYmbAGgU+FWzYNVETc5qUa01iXwECM9qg8FRz4SxgfDZO+k4EdKq9Z6wdJVlUDIOb mhBXR/J98nOxf0VWjfudH/LksewDf3FLcN3iE4WTMuSrLvjTjqo+J8Fk0ipNpg39sp 12vYnz4YCRKranWN/9FpYJfdsmKLDdwwgWg3dcXA= Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2101\)) Subject: Re: Softlayer VPS: Loading FreeBSD From: Marc Fournier In-Reply-To: <557A0B64.9050808@sysconfig.org.uk> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:00:32 -0700 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: References: <6277AB8E-EDF5-436A-B1A9-5C041041E165@hub.org> <64385A15-591B-4933-BD83-45EAA5A372C5@hub.org> <557A0B64.9050808@sysconfig.org.uk> To: Carsten Heesch X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2101) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:00:37 -0000 Marc G Fournier Owner, Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. > On Jun 11, 2015, at 15:27, Carsten Heesch 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?