Cisco Systems CSR 1000V Creating the Cisco CSR 1000V KVM Instance on OpenStack Using the .qcow2 File

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Chapter6 Installing the Cisco CSR 1000V in KVM Environments
Creating the Cisco CSR 1000V KVM Instance on OpenStack Using the .qcow2 File
Step19 To create additional vNICs before installing the VM, click the Add Hardware button. All vNICs must
be the Virtio Disk device type.
Note You can add more vNICs after the VM is installed and the Cisco CSR 1000V has booted. You
do not need to power down the VM or the router to add vNICs. See Table6-1 on page 6-2 for
the number of vNICs supported on the hypervisor for your release.
Note You can also create a serial port interface before creating the VM if you want to access the
Cisco CSR 1000V using a serial console. See the “Booting the Cisco CSR 1000V and Accessing
the Console” section on page8-1. You must select the option to use the serial console when
booting the Cisco CSR 1000V.
Step20 Click the Begin Installation button to create the VM.
The VM is created. Once the VM is created, the Cisco CSR 1000V begins the first-time boot process.
See the “Booting the Cisco CSR 1000V and Accessing the Console” section on page8-1 to continue the
bootup.
Creating the Cisco CSR 1000V KVM Instance on OpenStack
Using the .qcow2 File
•Creating the Instance Using the KVM Command
•Creating the Instance Using the OpenStack Command Line Tool
•Creating the Instance Using the OpenStack Dashboard
Creating the Instance Using the KVM Command
Although the following procedure provides a general guideline for how to create the Cisco CSR 1000V
tenant instance, the exact steps that you need to perform may vary depending on the characteristics of
your KVM environment and setup. For more information, see the OpenStack documentation.
The following steps are performed using the Nova (OpenStack Compute) console on your server.
Note To configure the KVM to run with config-drive, you must use the procedure described in the “Creating
the Instance Using the OpenStack Command Line Tool” section on page 6-6.
Step1 Download the .qcow2 file from the Cisco CSR 1000V software installation image package and copy it
onto a local or network device.
Step2 In the Nova console, create the Cisco CSR 1000V KVM instance where you specify the parameters for
the instance, as shown in the following example: