On ADL IDV Build Server

Follow the instructions below to generate the IDV Guest installer ISO file. The installer simplifies the IDV Guest setup process.

1. Launch the Terminal application and create a project folder.

mkdir -p ~/iso/guest

2. Launch Cubic and click the folder icon to choose the project folder created from Step 1 to store the output ISO file. Click Select and click Next.



3. In the Filename field, choose the pre-downloaded Ubuntu Desktop ISO file (Ubuntu 22.04.4 for MTL), then click Next. Cubic will decompress the ISO file content into the project folder.



4. Customize the file system by entering these instructions in Table 7 into the virtual environment terminal.



Table 7. Instructions to Customize File System of IDV Guest (Ubuntu)


# Copy and unzip idv-v1.3.13.zip
mkdir -p /opt/idv
cd /opt/idv

# Copy IDV package, SRIOV package and artifact package
scp sysadmin@localhost:~/idv_setup/*.zip .
unzip idv-v1.3.13.zip
chmod +x ./setup.idvguest.cubic.sh

# Run setup script to start provisioning idvhost with server IP argument

# Optional: Run the script with proxy arguments if the environment require proxy

# Optional: Add the password argument if wish to change the default password

# Default password for idvuser is “Intel@123”
./setup.idvguest.cubic.sh --http_proxy <http_proxy> --https_proxy <https_proxy> --no_proxy <no_proxy>
Note:If you observed an error message as ERROR couldn't connect to zsys daemon, ignore it and proceed to Step 5.
5. Click Next to proceed.
6. Remove the gnome-initial-setup package by checking the checkbox for both Standard and Minimal options. Click Next to proceed.



7. Enable automatic installation by configuring ubuntu.seed. Click the Preseed tab > select ubuntu.seed on the left drop-down list. Update the content to the configurations below. The content for the preseed can also be found in /opt/idv/artifact/idvguest/preseed.txt.




ubiquity ubiquity/download_updates boolean false
ubiquity ubiquity/use_nonfree boolean false
d-i debian-installer/language string en
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US.UTF-8
d-i debian-installer/country string MY
d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
d-i console-setup/layoutcode string us
d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us
d-i keyboard-configuration/variant select English (US)
d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode select us
d-i keyboard-configuration/modelcode select pc105
d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string idvguest
d-i netcfg/get_domain string localdomain
d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string
d-i mirror/country string MY
d-i mirror/http/hostname string my.archive.ubuntu.com
d-i mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu
d-i mirror/http/mirror select my.archive.ubuntu.com
d-i clock-setup/utc-auto boolean true
d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean true
d-i time/zone string Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select biggest_free
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
d-i passwd/user-fullname string idvuser
d-i passwd/username string idvuser
d-i passwd/user-password-crypted password $1$/TEtBqkw$7RPdA4NxKzFuySLsckiWW1
d-i user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true
d-i user-setup/encrypt-home boolean false
tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop
d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server git-core
d-i pkgsel/upgrade select none
d-i pkgsel/update-policy select none
d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true
d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note
ubiquity ubiquity/reboot boolean true

8. Configure the grub settings. Click the Boot tab > select grub.cfg on the left drop-down list. Update the content to the configurations below. The content can also be found in /opt/idv/artifact/idvguest/grub.txt. Click Next to proceed.

set timeout=5

loadfont unicode

set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray

menuentry "Autoinstall IDV Guest" {
set gfxpayload=keep
linux        /casper/vmlinuz auto=true noprompt boot=casper file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed automatic-ubiquity quiet splash ---
initrd        /casper/initrd.gz
}
grub_platform

9. Click Generate to create the custom ISO file. The ISO image will be generated and stored in the path set in Step 1.
10. Once done, check the Delete all project files checkbox and click Close to close the Cubic.
11. The IDV Guest ISO image must be converted to qcow2 format to be booted by libvirt. Launch Virtual Machine Manager.



12. Click the Add New VM icon.



13. Select Local install media (ISO image or CDROM). Click Forward to proceed.



14. Click Browse.



15. Click Browse Local and navigate to the path of the custom iso file: ~/iso/guest/.iso > Click Open



16. If the operation system is not detected automatically, uncheck the Automatically detect from the installation media/source checkbox and manually type the name of the operating system in the text box. Click Forward to proceed.



17. *Optional: If this error pops up. Click YES.



18. Enter the appropriate CPU and memory resources for the VM. The recommended minimum memory size for Linux VM is 4 GB. Click Forward to proceed.



19. Select the Select or create custom storage option > click Manage.



20. Select the default directory on the left to store the VM image file > click the Add icon.



21. In the Name field, enter ubuntu_​22, in the Format field, select the qcow2 option. Specify the appropriate file size to allocate to the VM disk image and check the Allocate entire volume now checkbox > click Finish to proceed.



22. Select the VM disk image file created in the previous step, click Choose Volume, and click Forward.



23. On the final page, click Finish to begin the installation of the guest operating system.



24. Follow the instructions on the operating system installer to complete the installation process.
25. After successfully installing the Ubuntu VM, the auto-install process will begin on the first boot of the VM. The process will take a few minutes and involve two reboots.
Note:Do not login to idvuser, the VM will auto-login after restart.
26. Check for the presence of /opt/idv/auto-install.idvguest.stage2.done file on the Ubuntu VM, which indicates the completion of the auto-install process.

ls /opt/idv/auto-install.idvguest.stage2.done

27. Shut down the Ubuntu VM after completing the setup.
28. On the IDV Server, execute the instruction below to copy the VM disk image file from /var/lib/libvirt/images to /home/idvuser/imgs.
    sudo /opt/idv/scripts/update-img.idvserver.sh --path /var/lib/libvirt/images/ubuntu_22.qcow2 --os ubuntu