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Step-by-step guide

VSS Portal
  1. Login to https://vss-portal.eis.utoronto.ca
  2. Look for the VM to edit and click 
  3. From the VM tab, click con SPECS 
  4. From the CD/DVD dropdown select the ISO image to mount
  5. Click on SAVE.

If the ISO file you need is not listed in the dropdown list, please follow the article Upload an ISO image to VSS and How-to Load an ISO image in a Virtual Machine.

VSS CLI

Using https://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca or a local VSS CLI install

  1. Get VM Uuid (Optional)

    vss-cli compute vm ls -f name ecstatic_mccarthy
uuid                                  name
------------------------------------  -----------------------
501220a5-a091-1866-9741-664236067142  1611T-ecstatic_mccarthy

  2. Get ISO path to mount:

    vss-cli compute iso public ls -f name CentOS-7

  ID  PATH                                                           NAME
----  -------------------------------------------------------------  -------------------------------------
 246  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1708.iso           CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1708.iso
 104  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1708.iso    CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1708.iso
 105  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-DVD.iso         CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-DVD.iso
 113  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1611.iso       CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1611.iso
 119  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso       CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso
 122  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.iso       CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.iso
 123  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-Minimal.iso     CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-Minimal.iso
 240  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1708.iso       CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1708.iso
 297  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall-1810.iso    CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall-1810.iso
 298  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1810.iso           CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1810.iso
 299  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-1810.iso     CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-1810.iso
 300  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1810.iso       CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1810.iso
 117  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-NetInstall.iso  CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-NetInstall.iso
 271  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1804.iso    CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1804.iso
 272  [vss-ISOs] Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1804.iso       CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1804.iso

  3. Submit a request to mount the ISO image:

    vss-cli compute vm set {VmName-or-Uuid} cd --iso CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-DVD.iso 1

If the ISO file you need is not listed, please follow the article Upload an ISO image to VSS and How-to Load an ISO image in a Virtual Machine.

For more information, please refer to Manage Floppy, ISOs and OVA/OVF Images.

VSS intervention
  1. Send an email to vss(at)eis.utoronto.ca requesting to load any ISO
  2. Wait for email confirmation

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