Great stuff Jason, thanks for the update!

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Jason Daly <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Gang,
>
> Yes, I'm working on CloudStack support for Stratos.  I've got some code
> written and thus far I am at the point where Stratos recognizes the new
> provider 'cloudstack'.  I've been planning to share this code and will do so
> asap.
>
> I'm currently in the process of setting up a VM template to use as a generic
> cartridge.
>
> Once I've uploaded the code I'll advise on its location.
>
>
> cheers
>
> Jason Daly
> VP, Product Development
> SystemBind Consulting & IT Services Inc.
> 5115 Maingate Drive, Unit 1
> Mississauga, ON
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> On 29/06/2014 12:54 PM, Melan Nimesh wrote:
>
> 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
>
>

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