<p><strong>This post is linked to from the <a href="/openstack.html">OpenStack Deep Dive Project</a></strong></p>
<hr>
<p>When you launch an instance in OpenStack, you can provide a script to
cloud-init that will be executed at startup time. The glance template needs to
have <a href="https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">cloud-init</a> installed
(linux) or <a href="https://cloudbase.it/cloudbase-init/">Cloudbase-init</a> (windows).</p>
<h1 id="write-your-powershell-script">Write your Powershell Script</h1>
<p>You need to define the script ahead of time. Here's a super simple script
to add a local administrator:</p>
<pre><code class="language-powershell">#ps1
$name = "MyUser"
$password = "MyPassword"
$password_secure_string = ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force $password
$new_user = New-LocalUser -Name $name -Password $password_secure_string -AccountNeverExpires
Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Administrators" -Member $new_user
</code></pre>
<hr>
<h1 id="create-the-instance">Create the Instance</h1>
<p>There's more than one way to do just about everything, but here's how I do it.</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash"># source openrc file
source my-openrc.sh

# Collect environment details
openstack flavor list
openstack network list
openstack image list

# Set the VM specs
flavor=""
network=""
image=""
name="CloudInitDemo"
size=60
vol_name="$name-boot"

# Create a boot volume
openstack volume create --image $image --bootable --size $size $vol_name

# create server and specify cloud-init script
script_file="/home/kyle/localAdmin.ps1"
openstack server create \
  --volume $vol_name \
  --flavor $flavor \
  --network $network \
  --user-data $script_file \
  $name
</code></pre>


<h3 id="table-of-contents">Table of Contents</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="#prepare-the-image-in-guest">Prepare the image in-guest</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#remove-vmware-tools">Remove VMWare Tools</a></li>
<li><a href="#install-cloudbase-init--sysprep-if-needed">Install cloudbase-init &#x26; sysprep (if needed)</a></li>
<li><a href="#shut-down-the-vm--export-the-drive">Shut down the VM &#x26; Export the drive</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#inject-the-kvm-drivers">Inject the KVM Drivers</a></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="prepare-the-image-in-guest">Prepare the image in-guest</h1>
<p>From VMWare or HyperV, launch your template Windows VM and log in as an
administrative user. Make any firewall changes you need, install any packages,
and ensure that RDP is enabled.</p>
<h2 id="remove-vmware-tools">Remove VMWare Tools</h2>
<p>If the guest has VMWare tools installed, remove them. They won't be needed
where we're going.</p>
<h2 id="install-cloudbase-init--sysprep-if-needed">Install cloudbase-init &#x26; sysprep (if needed)</h2>
<p>This isn't so much for KVM as it is for OpenStack, but cloudbase-init is the
Windows version of cloud-init. This will set your hostname and such when the VM
is created.</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://cloudbase.it/cloudbase-init/">Download the Cloudbase-init installer</a></li>
<li>Run through the installer.
<ol>
<li>Don't run as Local System.</li>
<li>Don't name your user Administrator, the named user is made by this
service to run the startup tasks.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>At the end of the installation, you'll be prompted to sysprep. If this VM
will be re-used as a template and not just a one-off VM, then sysprep it.</li>
</ol>
<h2 id="shut-down-the-vm--export-the-drive">Shut down the VM &#x26; Export the drive</h2>
<p>Shut down the VM and grab the VMDK or VHDX file it booted from. Copy that file
to a directory on your computer, such as <code>C:\Temp</code>.</p>
<hr>
<h1 id="inject-the-kvm-drivers">Inject the KVM Drivers</h1>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-virtio/virtio-win.iso">Download the VirtIO ISO</a></li>
<li>Mount the ISO to your workstation. In these examples, it's E:</li>
<li>Open PowerShell as admin and verify that the file is where you put it. You
can show some basic info about it like this: <code>get-vhd C:\Temp\Win10.vhdx</code></li>
<li>Create a mount-point for Dism: <code>mkdir C:\mount</code></li>
<li>Mount the volume with Dism:
<code>Dism /mount-image /ImageFile:C:\Temp\Win10.vhdx /Index:1 /MountDir:C:\mount</code></li>
<li>Inject the <code>viostor</code> driver:
<code>Dism /image:C:\mount /Add-Driver /Driver:E:\viostor\w10\amd64 /Recurse</code></li>
<li>Inject the <code>Baloon</code> driver:
<code>Dism /image:C:\mount /Add-Driver /Driver:E:\Balloon\w10\amd64 /Recurse</code></li>
<li>Inject the <code>NetKVM</code> driver:
<code>Dism /image:C:\mount /Add-Driver /Driver:E:\NetKVM\w10\amd64 /Recurse</code></li>
<li>Confirm the drivers injected: <code>Dism /image:C:\mount /Get-Drivers</code></li>
<li>Unmount the image: <code>Dism /Unmount-image /MountDir:c:\mount /commit</code></li>
</ol>
<p>Now the image is ready to be converted to raw/qcow2 and uploaded to OpenStack.</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: CloudBase has released a Windows version of <code>qemu-img</code> so you can do
the conversions on Windows now without VirtualBox tools. You can download it
<a href="https://cloudbase.it/qemu-img-windows/">here</a></p>


Kyle Pericak

"It works in my environment"

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