Download Trisquel Linux OpenStack KVM qcow2 image by tuxfixer.com

Posted on September 24, 2016November 6, 2017 by Grzegorz Juszczak Leave a comment

Trisquel GNU/Linux is an elegant and lightweight Linux distribution, derived from Ubuntu, which uses fully free software system without proprietary software or firmware. Trisquel uses modified kernel from Ubuntu distribution, with the non-free code removed and is listed by the Free Software Foundation as a distribution that contains only free software.

Below you can find Trisquel GNU/Linux OpenStack/KVM 64bit qcow2 image based on Trisquel Mini 7.0 x86_64 release:
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OpenStack Horizon Error: Unable to get network agents info

Posted on August 21, 2016September 12, 2016 by Grzegorz Juszczak Leave a comment

OpenStack Dashboard Error: Unable to get network agents info often seen in Horizon is a result of Neutron related problems.

Usually the problem is caused by neutron-service failure due to service operation time outs.

The below screenshot presents OpenStack Dashboard Error: Unable to get network agents info:

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Install and Configure OpenStack Mitaka with GlusterFS on CentOS 7

Posted on August 15, 2016October 16, 2016 by Grzegorz Juszczak 14 Comments

OpenStack can use diffirent backend technologies for Cinder Volumes Service to create volumes for Instances running in cloud. The default and most common backend used for Cinder Service is LVM (Logical Volume Manager), but it has one basic disadventage – it’s slow and overloads the server which serves LVM (usually Controller), especially during volume operations like volume deletion. OpenStack supports other Cinder backend technologies, like GlusterFS which is more sophisticated and reliable solution, provides redundancy and does not occupy Controller’s resources, because it usually runs on separate dedicated servers.

In this tutorial we are going to deploy VLAN based OpenStack Mitaka on three CentOS 7 nodes (Controller, Network, Compute) using Packstack installer script and integrate it with already existing GlusterFS redundant storage based on two Gluster Peers.

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OpenStack: Unable to Connect to Horizon Dashboard

Posted on August 10, 2016August 10, 2016 by Grzegorz Juszczak Leave a comment

Pretty often after rebooting Controller node or powering it on after shutdown, the Horizon (OpenStack Dashboard) is not responding, but we know that it worked before reboot. This issue may be caused by httpd service (Apache), which entered failed state right after powering on the Controller node.

This results in browser’s connection problem to the Horizon:

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KVM OpenStack Error: /Stage[main]/Nova::Db::Sync/Exec[nova-db-sync]

Posted on August 7, 2016November 3, 2016 by Grzegorz Juszczak 1 Comment

Few times during KVM based OpenStack (Mitaka, Newton) automated installations using packstack we encountered DB synchronization errors.

It turned out, that these installation errors appeared due to slow network and/or poor hardware performance of KVM virtualized hardware used to build OpenStack virtual nodes (Controller, Network, Compute).
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Download Arch Linux OpenStack KVM qcow2 image by tuxfixer.com

Posted on June 26, 2016November 6, 2017 by Grzegorz Juszczak 2 Comments

Arch Linux is a Linux distribution developed according to the KISS principle (“keep it simple, stupid”) as the general guideline, focuses on elegance, code correctness, minimalism and simplicity, which expects the user to make some effort to understand the system’s operation and configuration.

Below we have generated Arch Linux OpenStack / KVM 64bit qcow2 image based on Arch Linux 2016.06.01 Base x86_64 release:
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Download Manjaro Linux OpenStack KVM qcow2 image by tuxfixer.com

Posted on June 10, 2016November 14, 2017 by Grzegorz Juszczak Leave a comment

Manjaro Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and it’s package manager called pacman. Manjaro has recently become popular due to it’s simplicity and design to work fully out of the box.

We have generated Manjaro Linux OpenStack / KVM 64bit qcow2 image based on Manjaro Xfce x86_64 release:
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Download Linux Mint OpenStack KVM qcow2 image by tuxfixer.com

Posted on June 1, 2016November 6, 2017 by Grzegorz Juszczak Leave a comment

download linux mint openstack qcow2 image
Linux Mint is a community-driven Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu that strives to be a “modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.

Below you can find Linux Mint OpenStack / KVM 64bit qcow2 ready to use image based on Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa Xfce 64bit ISO image:
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How to shrink OpenStack qcow2 image using qemu-img

Posted on May 24, 2016August 12, 2018 by Grzegorz Juszczak Leave a comment

If you transfer qcow2 images very frequently across OpenStack Clouds or between KVM and Openstack environments, they can quickly grow larger. Luckily qcow2 image size can be decreased to reasonable values using qemu-img tool. Below we present how to shrink Openstack/KVM qcow2 image.
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Download Kali Linux OpenStack KVM qcow2 image by tuxfixer.com

Posted on May 20, 2016September 10, 2018 by Grzegorz Juszczak

Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. Kali Linux can run natively when installed on a computer’s hard disk, can be booted from a live CD or live USB, or it can run as KVM virtual machine or OpenStack instance using qcow2 image.

Below you can purchase Kali Linux OpenStack / KVM 64bit qcow2 Image Bundle of ready to use images based on Kali Linux ISO with preinstalled Metapackages (more info).

Bundle includes two groups of images: cloud-init based images (including -ci suffix) with passwordless SSH access using key-pair and dedicated user – ideal for OpenStack platform, and non cloud-init images with standard SSH root access using password dedicated for OpenStack and KVM.
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