On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 07:19:50AM +0530, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: > While DevCloud is wonderful, it is limited in its ability to test advanced > network services. > > The hypervisor-simulator plugin lets us test management server > interactions during the provisioning process. > For example, using the simulator, I was able to start up several simulated > redunant virtual routers and test provisioning of various networking rules > (firewall, port-forwarding, loadbalancer). The simulator pretends that the > rules were actually provisioned, otherwise the user experience is just > like a real CloudStack zone.
+1 - I find it very useful to test everything within management server until cmd handoff to the hypervisor. Our integration tests written with marvin specifically mark out @attr(tag='simulator') so as to use this ability to run tests quickly whenever a backend isn't necessary for the test. > > To use the simulator > mvn install -Dsimulator > cp agent-simulator/tomcatconf/components-simulator.xml.in > client//target/cloud-client-ui-4.1.0-SNAPSHOT/WEB-INF/classes/components-si > mulator.xml > Edit > client//target/cloud-client-ui-4.1.0-SNAPSHOT/WEB-INF/classes/environment.p > roperties to point to the new xml > > > mvn -P developer -pl developer -Ddeploydb > mvn -P developer -pl developer -Ddeploydb-simulator > mvn -pl :cloud-client-ui jetty:run -Dsimulator > > The UI doesn't let you add clusters of type 'Simulator', you can do this > via the API > cloudmonkey add cluster hypervisor=Simulator clustertype=CloudManaged > > > Obviously a couple of steps above can be mavenized. I'll look into this. I did setup a `simulator` profile. I can change the goals to simplify the deployment and also the creation of the advanced zone using a marvin config from the marvin/sandbox. Our ant target was quite simply - ant clean-all run-simulator ant clean-all run-marvin -Dmarvin.config=<cfg-file> -- Prasanna.,
