[libvirt-users] ESX VM from scratch

Paul Apostolescu apbogdan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 18:46:18 UTC 2015


I need to disk files to be created and allocated so I can start the vm -
the vm itself will be PXE booted.

I can programmatically create the domain however it fails to start because
the disk files are not there.

Thanks

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:35 PM Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org>
wrote:

> Dear Paul,
>
> Depending on how you want to create them, qemu-img tool might be what
> you're looking for. It can create empty vmdk disk images: qemu-img
> create -f vmdk ...
>
> Cheers,
>
> On 04/01/2015 06:25 PM, Paul Apostolescu wrote:
> > I want to create a virtual machine from scratch in ESX but I can't figure
> > out how to create the disks -  the vmdk files. Any hints on how that can
> be
> > done or even if it's possible at all ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
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>
> --
> Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org>
> System & Network Administrator
> Senior Kernel Developer
> ReactOS Deutschland e.V.
>
>
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