Create the Control Plane Virtual Machine

This is part two of a five-part process.

Procedure

  1. Open the controlplane.conf file, which you obtained when you untarred the release tar file.
  2. Update controlplane.conf as described in the comments of the file.
    Note

    Note

    In controlplane.conf, do not enclose values in double-quotes. For example, to configure NTP, NTP_CONF=1 is correct. NTP_CONF="1" is incorrect.
  3. Copy controlplane.conf to xvmconf.
    # cp controlplane.conf xvmconf
  4. Copy the xvmconf file to the qcow image.
    # virt-copy-in -a <absolute-path-for-controlplane-qcow2-file> xvmconf /etc/
  5. Install the control plane VM.
    For example:
    virt-install --name controlplane198  --ram 4096 --vcpus 2 
    --disk path=/home/user/sbrBuilds/controlplane-xvm.qcow2,bus=sata  --nographics --import 
    --os-variant centos7.0 --network bridge:<name-of-bridge> --console pty,target_type=virtio
    Note

    Note

    The <name-of-bridge> variable is the name of the bridge that is built into your host system. You can use the ifconfig command to identify the bridge configuration of the host.
    The VM starts up.
  6. Log in with the following credentials.
    • user name: root
    • password: password
  7. Select -network (according to your Hypervisor setup) and follow the automated instructions to complete the installation.

What to do next

Create the Region Virtual Machines