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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