Image Description for Microsoft Azure

Abstract

This page provides further information for handling Azure disk images built with KIWI NG and references the following articles:

• Build a Virtual Disk Image

A virtual disk image that is able to boot in the Microsoft Azure cloud framework has to comply with the following constraints:

• Hyper-V tools must be installed.

• The Microsoft Azure Agent must be installed.

• The disk size must be set to 30G.

• Kernel parameters must allow for a serial console.

To meet these requirements, update the KIWI NG image description as follows:

1. Software packages

   Make sure to add the following packages to the package list:

   Note

   Package names used in the following list match the package names of the SUSE distribution and might be different on other distributions.

   <package name="hyper-v"/>
   <package name="python-azure-agent"/>
   

2. Image Type definition

   Update the oem image type setup as follows:

   <type image="oem"
         filesystem="ext4"
         kernelcmdline="console=ttyS0 rootdelay=300 net.ifnames=0"
         devicepersistency="by-uuid"
         format="vhd-fixed"
         formatoptions="force_size"
         bootpartition="true"
         bootpartsize="1024">
     <bootloader name="grub2" timeout="1"/>
     <size unit="M">30720</size>
     <oemconfig>
         <oem-resize>false</oem-resize>
     </oemconfig>
   </type>
   

An image built with the above setup can be uploaded into the Microsoft Azure cloud and registered as an image. For further information on how to upload to Azure, see: azurectl.