openstack-manuals/doc/image-guide/section_windows-example.xml
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author: diane fleming
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section
xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
version="5.0"
xml:id="windows-image">
<title>Example: Microsoft Windows image</title>
<para>We do not yet have a fully documented example of how to create a Microsoft Windows image.
You can use libvirt to install Windows from an installation DVD using the same approach as
with the CentOS and Ubuntu examples. Once the initial install is done, you will need to
perform some Windows-specific customizations.</para>
<simplesect>
<title>Install VirtIO drivers</title>
<para>Installing the <link
xlink:href="http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers"
>VirtIO paravirtualizaion drivers for Windows</link> will improve virtual machine
performance when using KVM as the hypervisor to run Windows.</para>
</simplesect>
<simplesect><title>Sysprep</title>
<para>Microsoft has a special tool called <link
xlink:href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766049(v=ws.10).aspx"
>Sysprep</link> that must be run inside of a Windows guest to prepare it for use as
a virtual machine image. On Windows 2012 server, invoke sysprep, as follows:
<screen><userinput>c:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe</userinput></screen></para>
</simplesect>
<simplesect>
<title>cloudbase-init</title>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.cloudbase.it/cloud-init-for-windows-instances/"
>cloudbase-init</link> is a Windows port of cloud-init that should be installed
inside of the guest. The <link xlink:href="https://github.com/cloudbase/cloudbase-init"
>source code</link> is available on github.</para>
</simplesect>
<simplesect>
<title>Jordan Rinke's OpenStack Windows resources</title>
<para>Jordan Rinke maintains <link xlink:href="https://github.com/jordanrinke/openstack"
>a collection of resources</link> for managing OpenStack Windows virtual machine
guests.</para>
</simplesect>
</section>