Download and run ConVirt Appliance
Using Appliance with VMWare
- Download the OVA appliance here.
- Import it in to VMWare Client or vCenter client using standard import appliance option.
- Connect to virtual machine Console
- Login as cms user with convirt as password. It is recommended to change the password.
- Change the directory to convirt and start CMS
cd ~/convirt ./convirt-ctl start
- Run the ifconfig eth0 command to find the IP assigned to it. For example,
sudo ifconfig eth0
- Start Firefox browser on other machine on the network and type in the url. http://ip-address:8081, The default credentials are admin/admin
Using Appliance with Xen
You can use this approach if you have a high speed internet connection and an already running Xen virtualization environment
Prerequsites :
- Xen virtualization enabled Server
- Good internet connection to download large virtual appliance image.
- 10 GB of hard disk space.
- VT enabled hardware to run HVM image.
Procedure :
- Download the appliance disk image here.
- Unpackage it.
tar -xvf ConVirt-OSS-2.5.ova
- This will have a .vmdk file. Convert the file to RAW format using qemu-img utility.
qemu-img convert -f vmdk ConVirt-OSS-2.5-disk1.vmdk -O raw c2_appliance.disk.xm
- Get the appliance xen config file from here.
* Change the path in the disk parameter. * Change the bridge name in the vif entry
- Start the appliance using the config file name.
xm create convirt_appliance
- get the vnc port using the following command. Use xm list to get the DOMID of the appliance.
xenstore-read /local/domain/DOMID/console/vnc-port
- connect to the appliance using vncviewer and port obtained from previous command.
vncviewer :PORT_NO
- Login as cms user with convirt as password. It is recommended to change the password.
- Change the directory to convirt and start CMS
cd ~/convirt ./convirt-ctl start
- Run the ifconfig eth0 command to find the IP assigned to it. For example,
sudo ifconfig eth0
- Start Firefox browser on other machine on the network and type in the url. http://ip-address:8081, The default credentials are admin/admin
Using Appliance with KVM
You can use this approach if you have a high speed internet connection and an already running KVM virtualization environment
Prerequsites :
- KVM virtualization enabled Server
- Good internet connection to download large virtual appliance image.
- 10 GB of hard disk space.
- VT enabled hardware to run HVM image.
Procedure :
- Download the OVA appliance here
- Unpackage the OVA applianceit.
tar -xvf ConVirt-OSS-2.5.ova
- This will have a .vmdk file. Convert the file to RAW format using qemu-img utility.
qemu-img convert -f vmdk ConVirt-OSS-2.5-disk1.vmdk -O raw c2_appliance.disk.xm
- Start the appliance using the following command.(Change the path to the location where you created the c2_appliance.disk.xm disk)
qemu-system-x86_64 -hda "/mnt/storage/vm_disks/c2_appliance.disk.xm" -net "nic,vlan=0,macaddr=00:16:3e:20:d4:44" -net "user,vlan=0" -std-vga "" -boot "c" -m "512" -vnc ":25" -name "convirt_appliance" -smp "2" -redir tcp:2222::22 -redir tcp:8888::8081 -daemonize
OR
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -hda "/mnt/storage/vm_disks/c2_appliance.disk.xm" -net "nic,vlan=0,macaddr=00:16:3e:20:d4:44" -net "user,vlan=0" -boot "c" -m "512" -vnc ":25" -name "convirt_appliance" -smp "2" -redir tcp:2222::22 -redir tcp:8888::8081 -daemonize
- Connect using vncviewer. In the above command port :25 is used.
vncviewer :25
- Login as cms user with convirt as password. It is recommended to change the password.
- Change the directory to convirt and start CMS
cd ~/convirt ./convirt-ctl start
- Run the ifconfig eth0 command to find the IP assigned to it. For example,
sudo ifconfig eth0
- Start Firefox browser on other machine on the network and type in the url. http://ip-address:8081, The default credentials are admin/admin
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