openstack-manuals/doc/image-guide/ch_obtaining_images.xml

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        <title>Obtaining images</title>
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    <para>The simplest way to obtain a virtual machine image that works with OpenStack is to
        download one that someone else has already created.</para>
        <section xml:id="cirros-images">
            <title>CirrOS (test) images</title>
        <para>CirrOS is a minimal Linux distribution that was designed for use as a test image on
            clouds such as OpenStack Compute. You can download a CirrOS image in various formats
            from the <link xlink:href="https://launchpad.net/cirros/+download">CirrOS Launchpad
                download page</link>.</para>
            <para>If your deployment uses QEMU or KVM, we recommend using the images in qcow2
            format. The most recent 64-bit qcow2 image as of this writing is <link
                xlink:href="https://launchpad.net/cirros/trunk/0.3.0/+download/cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-disk.img"
                >cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-disk.img</link>
            <note>
                <para>In a CirrOS image, the login account is <literal>cirros</literal>. The
                    password is <literal>cubswin:)</literal></para>
            </note></para>
        </section>

        <section xml:id="ubuntu-images">
            <title>Official Ubuntu images</title>
            <para>Canonical maintains an <link xlink:href="http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/">official
                set of Ubuntu-based images</link>.</para>
        <para>Images are arranged by Ubuntu release, and by image release date, with "current" being
            the most recent. For example, the page that contains the most recently built image for
            Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" is <link
                xlink:href="http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/"
                >http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/</link>. Scroll to the bottom of the
            page for links to images that can be downloaded directly.</para>
            <para>If your deployment uses QEMU or KVM, we recommend using the images in qcow2
            format. The most recent version of the 64-bit QCOW2 image for Ubuntu 12.04 is <link
                xlink:href="http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img"
                >precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img</link>.<note>
                <para>In an Ubuntu cloud image, the login account is
                    <literal>ubuntu</literal>.</para>
            </note></para>
        </section>
        <section xml:id="redhat-images">
            <title>Official Red Hat Enterprise Linux images</title>
            <para>
              Red Hat maintains an official Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 cloud
              image. A valid Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 subscription is required
              to download the <link
                  xlink:href="https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=16952"
                >KVM Guest Image</link>.
            </para>
            <para>
              A <link
              xlink:href="https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=10486"
              >boot.iso</link> image is also available. This is the same as the
              <literal>boot.iso</literal> file provided on the Red Hat
              Enterprise Linux installation DVD. It is a minimal image suitable
              for kickstarting operating system installation over a network.
            </para>
        </section>
    <section xml:id="fedora-images">
        <title>Official Fedora images</title>
        <para>The Fedora project maintains a list of official cloud images at
              <link xlink:href="http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/" />. The images
              include the <systemitem class="process">cloud-init</systemitem>
              utility to support key and user data injection. The default user
              name is <systemitem class="username">fedora</systemitem>.
        </para>
    </section>
    <section xml:id="suse-sles-images">
        <title>Official openSUSE and SLES images</title>
        <para>SUSE does not provide openSUSE or SUSE Linux Enterprise
            Server (SLES) images for direct download. Instead, they
            provide a web-based tool called <link
                xlink:href="http://susestudio.com">SUSE Studio</link>
            that you can use to build openSUSE and SLES images.</para>

        <para>For example, Christian Berendt used openSUSE to create <link
                xlink:href="http://susestudio.com/a/YRUrwO/testing-instance-for-openstack-opensuse-121"
                >a test openSUSE 12.1 image</link>.</para>
    </section>
    <section xml:id="other-distros">
        <title>Official images from other Linux distributions</title>
        <para>As of this writing, we are not aware of other distributions that provide images for download.</para>
    </section>
        <section xml:id="rcb-images">
            <title>Rackspace Cloud Builders (multiple distros)
                images</title>
            <para>Rackspace Cloud Builders maintains a list of pre-built images from various
            distributions (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu).  Links to these images can be found at
                <link xlink:href="https://github.com/rackerjoe/oz-image-build"
                >rackerjoe/oz-image-build on Github</link>.</para>
        </section>
    <section xml:id="windows-images">
        <title>Microsoft Windows Images</title>
        <para>Cloudbase Solutions hosts an <link xlink:href="http://www.cloudbase.it/ws2012/"
                >OpenStack Windows Server 2012 Standard Evaluation image</link> that runs on
            Hyper-V, KVM, and XenServer/XCP.</para>
    </section>
    </chapter>