ITS Private Cloud 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 Load an ISO image in a Virtual Machine.

Command-Line Interface

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

  1. Get ISO id or name to mount:

     vss-cli compute contentlib iso ls -f name=ubuntu
    id                                name                              library.name          size
    --------------------------------  --------------------------------  --------------  ----------
    520d298f-8afb-476a-9244-a970e5e…  ubuntu-22.04-beta-live-server-a…  VSS-Nix         1464485888
    837c28cf-82ef-4226-a563-7b0ac55…  ubuntu-22.10-desktop-amd64        VSS-Nix         4071903232
    e77d5427-0515-4351-bf2b-737b889…  ubuntu-20.04.5-live-server-amd6…  VSS-Nix         1406533632
    21cb58c7-614c-4ea5-8328-8e6ae81…  ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd6…  VSS-Nix         1474873344
    d12541f1-d11a-43a6-9de6-86dd1fb…  ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64      VSS-Nix         3826831360
  2. Submit a request to mount the ISO image:

    vss-cli compute vm set {VmName-or-Uuid} cd up --backing ubuntu-20.04.5 1

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

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

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