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How to install OS to Virtual Machine in Emulator
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7/26/11 12:53 PM
Hello,
 
I am completely new to UCS but have installed the emulator and want to now create a virtual machine and install my own linux OS on it so that I can verify that my application/OS will run correctly on the UCS platform. Can someone please point me in the right direction here. 
 
Thanks in advance for your help
 
Regards
Derek
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RE: How to install OS to Virtual Machine in Emulator
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7/26/11 3:49 PM as a reply to Derek Kiely.
Hello,
 
I am completely new to UCS but have installed the emulator and want to now create a virtual machine and install my own linux OS on it so that I can verify that my application/OS will run correctly on the UCS platform. Can someone please point me in the right direction here. 
 
Thanks in advance for your help
 
Regards
Derek


 
Derek,
 
The emulator is NOT Cisco UCS in its entirety.  It was initialy developed so you could try out external code against it.  For example, let's say you wanted to write a quick self-service portal.  You could do it a web/xml frontend and send the XML over to UCS to make it works it's magic. 
 
There is no hardware (servers, network, and such) inside the emulator so you will not be able to use to test you linux workloads.
 
adam
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RE: How to install OS to Virtual Machine in Emulator
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7/27/11 10:12 AM as a reply to Adam Baum.
Hi Adam,

Thanks for the feedback, do you know of anyway that I can test my linux based OS on the UCS platform?

Thanks for your help

Regards
Derek
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RE: How to install OS to Virtual Machine in Emulator
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7/27/11 3:06 PM as a reply to Derek Kiely.
Hi Derek,

A quick search turned up install guides for Redhat (and thus CentOS) as well as SuSE linux. As long as it's a recent build chances are good your OS is going to run on it, worst case you might have to add some device drivers. If you let us know what you're trying to run, perhaps someone can verify it works on a given UCS configuration.

Sage
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RE: How to install OS to Virtual Machine in Emulator
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7/27/11 4:01 PM as a reply to Derek Kiely.
Derek,

Give your Cisco rep a call. Many Cisco offices have demo units available for a customer to use, but it may mean a field trip to the Cisco office.

Adam
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