Importing a VHD image that uses linux volume management for its root directory

To import a VHD image, three steps are required:

1.Get Your VHD Image into your IBM Bluemix Private Cloud. To get the image in, you have 2 options.

You can use the OpenStack API command line tools and run a glance image-create command pointing to the VHD file:

$ glance image-create --name "xen-template-disk1" --is-
public false --disk-format vhd --container-format bare --
file ./xen-template-disk1.vhd --progress

or you can log in to the Horizon console and navigate to Project » Images » Create Image to upload the image.

2.Create a VM flavor specific to the VHD image. You can do so by using the nova flavor-create command, as shown, which in this example will create a flavor for a 8GB Memory, 65GB root partition and 2vCPU virtual machine.

$ nova flavor-create ML_LVM_FLVR auto 8192 65 2

3.Launch the VM, based on the xen-template-disk1 VHD image. To do so, navigate to Project » Compute » Instances and select Launch VM using the credentials shown in the screenshot.

Afterward, you should observe that the VM has successfully launched, and that it is shown in “Running” status in the Horizon console.

You can verify success by clicking the instance name and navigating to the console, where you will see the boot sequence for RHEL and ultimately the login prompt for the OS.