Enabling Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 systems for ISO generation

If you are using Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 with IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack, you must install a compatible ISO generation utility such as genisoimage from Cygwin. After you install a compatible ISO generation utility such as genisoimage from Cygwin to use on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 systems, you must update the nova.conf file on each system where you installed the IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack Hyper-V Agent.

Procedure

  1. Use a text editor to edit the nova.conf file that is located at C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Cloud Manager with OpenStack\Hyper-V Agent\etc\nova.
  2. Find the line mkisofs_cmd=C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Cloud Manager with OpenStack\Hyper-V Agent\bin\ibmgenisoimage.exe and change the path and file name of the mkisofs_cmd property to the ISO generation utility that you installed. For example:
    mkisofs_cmd=C:\cygwin\bin\genisoimage.exe
  3. Restart the IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack Hyper-V Compute Agent Service by running the following commands:
    • net stop IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack Hyper-V Compute Agent Service
    • net start IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack Hyper-V Compute Agent Service