Thanks Chris and Lan for the prompt response. yes I am willing to use virtualbox. Your suggestions and support would be very useful for me
I will try this out and will update this thread as progress. Thanks, Melan On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Ian Duffy <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the CC chris. > > >> Ian Duffy (cc'd) has been working on an automated virtualbox development >> environment setup that contains cloudstack and xenserver [1]. This may >> save you some time, but it is probably worth pinging Ian to see if the >> project is ready for testing. > > > It will give you XenServer and the nfs/mysql box you will have to > compile/run cloudstack on your own machine. > > Instructions on setting up a cloudstack dev environment: > https://github.com/runseb/cloudstack-books/blob/master/en/developer.markdown > > Instructions for bringing up the xenserver and mysql + nfs box via vagrant > can be found at: https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014 (It should work > for you) > > Bringing up VMs inside of the "devcloud" environment can be interesting. > There is a default template supplied "ttylinux_pv" which is a very low spec > machine. Ignore the "Medium" and "Small" service offerings they are default > ones created by cloudstack on first run, they will not work inside of > devcloud as they do not use local storage. > > If you wish to install ubuntu or debian you will need to: (This is due to > nested virtualization) > > 1) Create a service offering with 512mb+ ram and that uses local storage. > 2) Create a disk offering that uses local storage. > 3) Upload a Ubuntu Server ISO. (not netinstall iso, xenserver doesn't > recognize its structure for booting. Preferably use something with linux > kernel 3 to get the PV drivers.). > 4) Modify the templates_view sql table to set the hvm flag on the uploaded > ISO to 0. > > If you need any more help to get going let me know. > > > On 29 June 2014 17:09, chris snow <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Melan, >> >> Jason Daly and Tuna were working on cloudstack support, I've cc'd them. >> >> In my experience, Cloudstack can be a bit of a nightmare to set up. If >> you run into such issues, Ian Duffy (cc'd) has been working on an automated >> virtualbox development environment setup that contains cloudstack and >> xenserver [1]. This may save you some time, but it is probably worth >> pinging Ian to see if the project is ready for testing. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Chris >> >> --- >> [1] https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/ >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Melan Nimesh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Devs, >>> >>> Apache CloudStack is a popular open source cloud computing platform, but >>> Stratos is lacking CloudStack support as an IaaS provider. So, I am going >>> to work on CloudStack support for Stratos. >>> It seems there is own CloudStack API but Cloudstack is supported by >>> jclouds[1] and pretty much everything the Cloudstack API can do is >>> implemented in jclouds. I am still at initial steps of setting up >>> CloudStack on my machine and I will update this thread as progress. >>> >>> Your suggestions are much appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Melan >>> >>> [1] https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/tree/master/apis/cloudstack >>> >>> -- >>> Melan Nimesh Jayasinghage >>> >> >> > -- Melan Nimesh Jayasinghage
