On May 16, 2014, at 2:10 AM, Andrei Mikhailovsky <and...@arhont.com> wrote:
> Hi guys, > > Sorry if this email will sound a bit off, but it's rather late at night and > i've spent ages trying to figure out why ACS 4.3 is broken on a newly created > install with XenServer 4.3. > > Could someone responsible for documentation please make the following > corrections to make sure that people following the installation guide will > actually end up with a working installation. At the moment, the installation > guide has mistakes/omissions which prevent users from having a working > CloudStack environment. It just looks rather unprofessional ((( > > Issues I've found so far (there might be more) > > 1. When installing the management server on Ubuntu server please add to > requirement to install libmysql-java by running: > > apt-get install libmysql-java I can confirm this, it seems to be missing from the packages. @wido, do you know about this ? It seems that we might be missing a dependency in the deb packages. At least on 14.04. > > Or the management server will not start. Produces a java exception > complaining about unable to connect to the sql database > > > 2. Please change the debian repo from: > > deb http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/ubuntu precise 4.2 > > to > > deb http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/ubuntu precise 4.3 It would be also good to > change that line with every new version release. You do want users to install > the latest version of ACS, don't you? > > > 3. Please update the section about downloading vhd-util if you are using > XenServer and indicate that this file would also have to be manually copied > to XenServer to /opt/cloud/bin folder. This bit is missing from documentation > and because of this system vms will no get created. Simply downloading the > file into the locattion indicated in the installation guide is not enough. It > is not being copied to the xenserver host automatically. > > Cheers > > Andrei >
