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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
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xml:id="ch_obtaining_images">
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<title>Obtaining images</title>
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<?dbhtml stop-chunking?>
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<para>The simplest way to obtain a virtual machine image that works with OpenStack is to
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download one that someone else has already created.</para>
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<section xml:id="cirros-images">
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<title>CirrOS (test) images</title>
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<para>CirrOS is a minimal Linux distribution that was designed for use as a test image on
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clouds such as OpenStack Compute. You can download a CirrOS image in various formats
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from the <link xlink:href="https://launchpad.net/cirros/+download">CirrOS Launchpad
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download page</link>.</para>
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<para>If your deployment uses QEMU or KVM, we recommend using the images in qcow2
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format. The most recent 64-bit qcow2 image as of this writing is <link
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xlink:href="https://launchpad.net/cirros/trunk/0.3.0/+download/cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-disk.img"
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>cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-disk.img</link>
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<note>
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<para>In a CirrOS image, the login account is <literal>cirros</literal>. The
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password is <literal>cubswin:)</literal></para>
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</note></para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="ubuntu-images">
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<title>Official Ubuntu images</title>
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<para>Canonical maintains an <link xlink:href="http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/">official
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set of Ubuntu-based images</link>.</para>
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<para>Images are arranged by Ubuntu release, and by image release date, with "current" being
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the most recent. For example, the page that contains the most recently built image for
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Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" is <link
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xlink:href="http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/"
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>http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/</link>. Scroll to the bottom of the
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page for links to images that can be downloaded directly.</para>
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<para>If your deployment uses QEMU or KVM, we recommend using the images in qcow2
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format. The most recent version of the 64-bit QCOW2 image for Ubuntu 12.04 is <link
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xlink:href="http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img"
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>precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img</link>.<note>
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<para>In an Ubuntu cloud image, the login account is
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<literal>ubuntu</literal>.</para>
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</note></para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="redhat-images">
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<title>Official Red Hat Enterprise Linux images</title>
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<para>
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Red Hat maintains an official Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 cloud
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image. A valid Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 subscription is required
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to download the <link
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xlink:href="https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=16952"
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>KVM Guest Image</link>.
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</para>
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<para>
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A <link
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xlink:href="https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=10486"
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>boot.iso</link> image is also available. This is the same as the
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<literal>boot.iso</literal> file provided on the Red Hat
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Enterprise Linux installation DVD. It is a minimal image suitable
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for kickstarting operating system installation over a network.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="fedora-images">
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<title>Official Fedora images</title>
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<para>The Fedora project maintains a list of official cloud images at
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<link xlink:href="http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/" />. The images
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include the <systemitem class="process">cloud-init</systemitem>
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utility to support key and user data injection. The default user
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name is <systemitem class="username">fedora</systemitem>.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="suse-sles-images">
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<title>Official openSUSE and SLES images</title>
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<para>SUSE does not provide openSUSE or SUSE Linux Enterprise
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Server (SLES) images for direct download. Instead, they
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provide a web-based tool called <link
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xlink:href="http://susestudio.com">SUSE Studio</link>
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that you can use to build openSUSE and SLES images.</para>
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<para>For example, Christian Berendt used <link xlink:href="http://www.oensuse.org">openSUSE</link> to create
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<link xlink:href="http://susestudio.com/a/YRUrwO/testing-instance-for-openstack-opensuse-12-3">
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a test openSUSE 12.3 image</link>.</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="other-distros">
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<title>Official images from other Linux distributions</title>
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<para>As of this writing, we are not aware of other distributions that provide images for download.</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="rcb-images">
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<title>Rackspace Cloud Builders (multiple distros)
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images</title>
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<para>Rackspace Cloud Builders maintains a list of pre-built images from various
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distributions (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu). Links to these images can be found at
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<link xlink:href="https://github.com/rackerjoe/oz-image-build"
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>rackerjoe/oz-image-build on Github</link>.</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="windows-images">
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<title>Microsoft Windows Images</title>
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<para>Cloudbase Solutions hosts an <link xlink:href="http://www.cloudbase.it/ws2012/"
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>OpenStack Windows Server 2012 Standard Evaluation image</link> that runs on
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Hyper-V, KVM, and XenServer/XCP.</para>
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</section>
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</chapter>
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