Create Windows Server 2012 image for openstack

default.xml

<network>
 <name>default</name>
 <bridge name="virbr0"/>
 <forward mode="nat"/>
 <ip address="192.168.122.1" netmask="255.255.255.0">
   <dhcp>
     <range start="192.168.122.2" end="192.168.122.254"/>
   </dhcp>
 </ip>
</network>

ws2012-image.md

General guidelines on http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/windows-image.html

Virsh network creation, Use default.xml to create the default network.

# virsh net-define /tmp/default.xml
# virsh net-start default
# virsh net-autostart default

Create a qcow2 image

$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 ws2012.qcow2 70G

Bring virtual machine up from virsh:

$ virt-install --connect qemu:///session \
    --name ws2012 --ram 2048 --vcpus 2 \
    --network network=default,model=virtio \
    --disk path=ws2012.qcow2,format=qcow2,device=disk,bus=virtio \
    --cdrom /opt/Windows12.ISO \
    --vnc --os-type windows --os-variant win2k8

See http://tutoriaisgnulinux.com/?p=8344

https://launchpad.net/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/+download

$ virt-install --connect qemu:///session