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: > > >> That gave us IPMI access for the Bare Metal server we put in place, >> but no KVM access for VPS … for VPS, I need to create an ISO of my >> install, upload that and then they effectively ‘dd’ 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 :) > > 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’t have .. :) I don’t know what they do exactly, getting info out of htem is like pulling teeth … so far, I’m not even sure what I should be setting for ethernet configuration, although I’m suspecting “DHCP”, else I’d have to load a new ISO for each VPS I’m setting up … > 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 “XYZ -> ISO” using FreeBSD, that is cool too … I can make / configure the image on my desktop, upload to my server and do the conversion there … I can use qemu-img to pretty much convert to any format (except ISO) … but how do I get to that final step? Thinking this through … ppl make livecd’s, so this is obviously possible … does it make sense that that is all I need to do? Although I’ve never done it, mind you, but if I were to upload a regular liveCD, and they installed / booted that, that should be it … or am I overlookign something?help
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