Running OSv on Google Compute Engine

Step 1: Create a GCE project

Create GCE project on Google's web console:

https://cloud.google.com/console

Step 2: Download and Install SDK

https://developers.google.com/cloud/sdk

Step 3: Download or generate OSv GCE image

Download the image from our website

To generate your own:

$ cd src/osv
$ make image=default
$ scripts/gen-gce-tarball.sh

Step 4: Login to GCE

$ gcloud auth login

Step 5: Set the project id for the following cmd

$ gcloud config set project $project_id

Step 6: Upload disk tarball to Google Cloud Storage

$gsutil mb gs://$buckets_name
$gsutil cp build/release/osv.tar.gz gs://$buckets_name/osv.tar.gz

where $buckets_name is your own unique bucket name

Step 7: Create an image which can be used to start instance

$ gcutil addimage osv gs://$buckets_name/osv.tar.gz

Step 8: Start a new instance

$ gcutil addinstance --image=osv  --machine_type=f1-micro  --zone=us-central1-a  $instance_name

Step 9: Get serial output or ssh into your OSv instance

$ gcutil getserialportoutput $instance_name 

or

$ gcutil ssh $instance_name