For our virtual Canary, only VMWare is currently officially supported. Quick testing however, reveals that it runs quite happily on a KVM set up too.
The main hurdle with getting this to work (in a point and click fashion) is the disk images. In order to make sure that the disk images work perfectly, they first need to be converted to qcow2 or RAW (We've only tested qcow2 but RAW should work).
To get this working, you need to:
- Download the OVA file from your console. This will give you the file VirtualCanary_x.x.x.ova where x.x.x is the version.
- Extract the OVA file (it is a tgz file with an .ova extension). You may need to rename the file to VirtualCanary_x.x.x.tgz in order to do this. Inside, there should be 3 files. 2 disk images and 1 .ovf file
- Convert the disk images. You can do this with qemu-img:
qemu-img convert -f vmdk /path/to/VirtualCanary-x.x.x-disk1.vmdk -O qcow2 /path/to/VirtualCanary-x.x.x-disk1.qcow2qemu-img convert -f vmdk /path/to/VirtualCanary-x.x.x-disk2.vmdk -O qcow2 /path/to/VirtualCanary-x.x.x-disk2.qcow2 - Create a new VM with the following specifications:
- 1 CPU
- 1GB RAM
- LSI SCSI controller (this is the default but I've used VirtIO successfully)
- Attach disk1 to port 0
- Attach disk2 to port 1
- Intel E1000 network adapter (this is the default but we've used VirtIO successfully)
- Make sure that this interface has internet access. You can configure IP settings from within the VM's terminal.
You should now be able to boot the new machine!