README.md

Prepare a VCSA (a.k.a vcenter) Qcow2 image

This script will prepare a Qcow2 image from the VCSA ISO image.

You can use it with OpenStack or Libvirt (e.g: VirtLightning).

• cloud-init is enabled, default user is root, the SSH key is injected
• Password based SSH auth is disabled

Requirements

• a functional Virt-Lightning installation ( https://virt-lightning.org/ )
• an ESXi image ( https://github.com/virt-lightning/esxi-cloud-images )
• an ISO image
• some extra Ansible dependencies:
  • ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yaml -p roles/
  • ansible-galaxy collection install community.vmware

Usage

./run.sh

OpenStack

You can upload the image with the following command:

openstack image create --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --file VMware-VCSA-all-6.7.0-14836122.qcow2 --property hw_qemu_guest_agent=no --min-disk 20 --min-ram 9000 --property hw_vif_model=e1000 VMware-VCSA-all-6.7.0-14836122

Notes

• the administrator password is !234AaAa56