Re: [DISCUSS] Short "marketing" video project

[David Nalley]

Like this one?
https://www.youtube.com/user/cloudstack/about

I think Karen had creds to this.

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:04 AM Will Stevens  wrote:
>
> I am +1 to an ACS youtube channel.
>
> *Will Stevens*
> Chief Technology Officer
> c 514.826.0190
>
> 
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 9:46 AM Giles Sirett 
> wrote:
>
> > I love the video Andrija
> >
> > Very good point Julia - we also have a whole of catalogue community video
> > content hosted in the Shapeblue channel - simply because there was nowhere
> > else to put it
> > For CCC the last  2 years,  we've worked with Rich Bowen to get conference
> > talks into the Apache channel, but that’s only really fits  because CCC has
> > been part of Apachecon (i.e. it wouldn’t work for "how to" videos) ,etc
> >
> > If we have people who are creating video content for the project such as
> > this , it would probably make sense to create an ACS youtube channel.
> >
> > Any objections ?
> >
> > From a practicality side, access to this would need to work in a similar
> > way to the ACS twitter account: the account owner is a PMC email address,
> > allowing password resets from the PMC as a group. The actual login
> > credentials  then held by a small subset of people who actually publish.
> >
> > This is a bigger decsison than Andrijas one specific  video IMO and should
> > have its own discuss thread , but keen to see initial thoughts here first
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Giles
> >
> > giles.sir...@shapeblue.com
> > www.shapeblue.com
> > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London  WC2E 9DPUK
> > @shapeblue
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Andrija Panic 
> > Sent: 03 October 2019 18:58
> > To: Apache CloudStack Marketing 
> > Cc: users ; dev 
> > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Short "marketing" video project
> >
> > I believe I saw that video - very nice work Julia.
> >
> > I believe, by (very) lazy consensus (a.k.a. if no objections), that I will
> > add that video to the main web site.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Andrija
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 14:56, Julia Simon  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We ran in to this issue a few years ago when we hosted the CloudStack
> > > Collab. Videos from that are on our (CloudOps) youtube channel, since
> > > there wasn't another place to publish them.
> > > Julia
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 10:21 AM Andrija Panic
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi guys,
> > >>
> > >> this is a little project I've been experimenting last 2 weeks and is
> > >> **temporarily** located on the ShapeBlue channel.
> > >>
> > >> https://youtu.be/k3uD69fajCU
> > >>
> > >> Do you have any ideas where we can publish this, in more "official",
> > >> CloudStack way?
> > >>
> > >> I was thinking about putting this on the main website
> > >> http://cloudstack.apache.org
> > >>
> > >> Comments, objections, ideas?
> > >>
> > >> Best,
> > >> Andrija
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > *Julia Simon*Responsable principale du marketing *| *Senior Marketing
> > > Manager t 514.447.3456 ext. 1103 c 514.993.6661
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Andrija Panić
> >

Re: Foreman Cloudstack provider

[David Nalley]

https://github.com/citrix/foreman-cloudstack

--David

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm playing with The Foreman these days and promises a lot. Ideally I'd like 
 to use ACS as a Foreman provider (ie Foreman should be able to provision ACS 
 instances), but I have found nothing about this in my searches.
 Is anyone doing anything with Foreman and Cloudstack?

 Lucian

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Re: Foreman Cloudstack provider

[David Nalley]

Yes it deploys instances, not hypervisors.
And yes, it doesn't work on basic zones, but the basic framework is
there, so it's probably extensible to make Basic zones work; just no
one has scratched that itch yet.

There were some folks talking about doing work in that area, but not
sure if they have made any progress or not.

--David

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote:
 Thanks David, I found that, but thought it was for deploying/managing 
 hypervisors.
 Anyway, it does not help me as I do not use Adv zone. Good job, though!

 Lucian

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 - Original Message -
 From: David Nalley da...@gnsa.us
 To: d...@cloudstack.apache.org
 Cc: Cloudstack Users List users@cloudstack.apache.org
 Sent: Friday, 8 May, 2015 15:12:54
 Subject: Re: Foreman Cloudstack provider

 https://github.com/citrix/foreman-cloudstack

 --David

 On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm playing with The Foreman these days and promises a lot. Ideally I'd 
 like to
 use ACS as a Foreman provider (ie Foreman should be able to provision ACS
 instances), but I have found nothing about this in my searches.
 Is anyone doing anything with Foreman and Cloudstack?

 Lucian

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 Nux!
  www.nux.ro

Re: [VOTE] Apache CloudStack 4.5.0 RC1

[David Nalley]

Daan:

I am running it for at least 72 hours, though practice tells me the
vote period will be longer.

--David

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:05 AM, Daan Hoogland daan.hoogl...@gmail.com wrote:
 David,

 Can you be lenient with the 72 hour schedule on this one? I don't
 think I personally can get to test this soon and we have two other
 votes going on as well.

 On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Marcus shadow...@gmail.com wrote:
 +1, ran some of the smoke tests that cover basic deployments of vm,
 vpc, and several storage types.

 On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Rohit Yadav rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com 
 wrote:
 (+ users)

 Hi everyone,

 David has started the voting process for 4.5.0 candidate, please help test 
 this candidate.
 In case you’re unable to build from source, you may use following 
 repository built from SHA 8db3cbd4ff62b17a8b496026b68cf60ee0c76740:

 DEB: http://packages.bhaisaab.org/cloudstack/testing/debian/4.5/
 RPM: http://packages.bhaisaab.org/cloudstack/testing/centos/4.5/
 SystemVM Templates: http://packages.shapeblue.com/systemvmtemplate/4.5/4.5.0

 On 13-Jan-2015, at 4:46 am, David Nalley da...@gnsa.us wrote:

 Hi folks,

 I've created a 4.5.0 release candidate, with the following artifacts
 up for a vote:

 Git Branch and Commit SH:
 https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cloudstack.git;a=tree;h=refs/heads/4.5-RC20150112T2256;hb=4.5-RC20150112T2256
 Commit: 8db3cbd4ff62b17a8b496026b68cf60ee0c76740

 Source release (checksums and signatures are available at the same
 location):
 https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/cloudstack/4.5.0-rc1/

 PGP release keys (signed using 6FE50F1C):
 https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/cloudstack/KEYS

 Vote will be open for at least 72 hours.

 For sanity in tallying the vote, can PMC members please be sure to
 indicate (binding) with their vote?

 [ ] +1  approve
 [ ] +0  no opinion
 [ ] -1  disapprove (and reason why)

 Regards,
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Re: Why is the I/O speed of VM so terrible when using CloudStack4.2 + KVM deployment

[David Nalley]

IIRC, virtio wasn't the default until EL6.4.

--David

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:12 PM, evanitsharp evanitsh...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all:
  I/O speed of our guest VMs are so slow when uploading or downloading 
 file from them.
  I have tried Basic and Advanced network, but I got the same result.

 Our environment is :
  CloudStack 4.2.1 + KVM Host(with rhel6.3 running on it).

 But if I use CentOS 6.4 instead of rhel 6.3 as operating system of KVM host, 
 The I/O speed is normal.
 Also, CloudStack 4.1.1 doesn't have this problem.The problem only occuring on 
 CloudStack 4.2 or later version

 Here are my test data around different version of CloudStack deployment:
 PS: Target VM are virtual machines on KVM Host with WEB or FTP service
 CloudStack versionNetwork type of CloudStackKVM software versionOperating 
 system of KVMStorage type of VMOperating system of VMread/write speed of VM's 
 diskAverage speed when downloading file to PC of LAN from target VMAverage 
 speed when downloading file to target  VM from server of LAN

 4.1.1BasicQEMU PC emulator version 0.12.1 (qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2)；qemu-img 
 version 0.12.1rhel6.3sharedrhel6.349.8 MB/sWEB:38.9 MB/s  FTP:42.2 
 MB/sWEB:41.0 MB/s  FTP:31.7 MB/s
 4.1.1BasicQEMU PC emulator version 0.12.1 (qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2)；qemu-img 
 version 0.12.1rhel6.3localrhel6.3116 MB/sWEB:80.6 MB/s  FTP:80.2 MB/sWEB:103 
 MB/s  FTP:64.1 MB/s


 4.2.1BasicQEMU PC emulator version 0.12.1 (qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2)；qemu-img 
 version 0.12.1rhel6.346.0 MB/sWEB:1.05 MB/s  FTP:1 MB/sWEB:700 KB/s  FTP:14 
 MB/s
 4.2.1AdvancedQEMU PC emulator version 0.12.1 (qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2)；qemu-img 
 version 0.12.1CentOS release 6.4 (Final)sharedrhel6.340.6 MB/sWEB:23.8 
 MB/sWEB:22.6 KB/s
 4.2.1AdvancedQEMU PC emulator version 0.12.1 (qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2)；qemu-img 
 version 0.12.1CentOS release 6.4 (Final)localrhel6.348.7 MB/sWEB:24.2 MB/s  
 FTP:24.5MB/sWEB:24.2 MB/s  FTP:24.8MB/s

 4.3BasicQEMU PC emulator version 0.12.1 (qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2)；qemu-img version 
 0.12.1rhel6.3sharedrhel6.335.9 MB/sWEB:218 KB/s  FTP:211.9 KB/sWEB:811 KB/s  
 FTP:3.1 MB/s
 4.3BasicQEMU PC emulator version 0.12.1 (qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2)；qemu-img version 
 0.12.2rhel6.3localrhel6.348.5 MB/sWEB:217 KB/s  FTP:212.5 KB/sWEB:708 KB/s  
 FTP:3.0 MB/s



 Any advice on how can I resolve the problem?
 Looking forward to your reply, thank you.

 Evan




 Evan

 Mail:evanitsh...@gmail.com

Re: OpenVM.eu - repository of Cloudstack images and appliances

[David Nalley]

This is awesome on Nux's part. I am thrilled to see this come to fruition.

This is not an official CloudStack deployment. There are a number of
reasons why this needs to be external (for instance, much of what he
has up for download is GPL-licensed; it's not our software, etc) In
addition, Infra does well to distribute the software we actually
produce, we'd politely decline the offer to provide a service like Nux
has stood up. :)

--David

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Sally Khudairi
sallykhuda...@yahoo.com.invalid wrote:
 Cool --thanks, Lucian!

 Just so I understand, this is a supporting repository and not an official 
 CloudStack project resource, correct?

 If so, totally fine: please do continue as intended. If not, I suspect this 
 might need to reside somewhere in the cloudstack.apache.org/* home.

 I'd love feedback from the community if you're planning to give folks a peek 
 at tomorrow's meeting!

 Cheers,
 Sally



 From: Nux! n...@li.nux.ro
To: market...@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: d...@cloudstack.apache.org; users@cloudstack.apache.org
Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2014, 15:09
Subject: OpenVM.eu - repository of Cloudstack images and appliances


Hi,

I've been intending to do this for a while, but decided it has to happen this 
summer so here goes:

http://www.openvm.eu - A repository of Cloudstack images and appliances!

Do not be fooled by it's current façade, it will get better.
It only has one template for now, but I expect this number to increase 
significantly in the coming weeks.
It is just what I managed to do in a very short time at $work today and 
thought it might be worth a mention at tomorrow's European meeting in London.

I'll add a lot more templates, with a focus on CentOS and Cloudstack, of 
course, as this is where my interests lie at the moment.
In time I will add more OSes and platforms (Openstack and OpenNebula).

The templates are built on/for KVM, but should be able to boot on a variety 
of hypervisors (I think it will work on Xen/Xenserver, VMware, HyperV), 
although the file format is QCOW2.
I'll have to check my resources to see if I can afford the extra disk space 
and CPU time to offer VHD/RAW files as well.

All templates are 8 GB in size unless specified otherwise.

I'll keep the list updated.

Comments, questions, suggestions etc welcome!

Lucian



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Re: XMPP Server on CloudStack Management Server

[David Nalley]

AMQP?

On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 9:04 AM, hossein zabolzadeh
zabolza...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi again.
 I want to add instance messaging system to the cloudstack management server
 architecture, to provide online chat capability with my VMs. I wrote a
 simple agent to be installed on every VMs, to provide chatting mechanism
 with each of them.
 So, how can I add XMPP to the cloudstack architecture?
 In other words, how its better to be implemented?
 Or is there any other method to provide this functionality in a better and
 standard way(I mean CloudStack compliency)?
 Is there any alternative to XMPP server which is existed on the current
 cloudstack architecture?
 Thanks in advance.

Re: LXC template

[David Nalley]

Would you consider adding this as part of the documentation? Or at
least as a blog post?

--David

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Francois Gaudreault
fgaudrea...@cloudops.com wrote:
 On 2014-04-02, 1:34 AM, Chinu wrote:

 Hello all,

  Please can someone advice how to create an LXC template image  in tar
 format to spawn containers in KVM for Cloudstack version 4.2 or 4.3
 Regards,
 Chinu



 I have that. This is for a CentOS image. I apologize for the formatting, I
 am using text emails ;)

 On your *HOST* run:

 |mkdir||/var/lib/libvirt/lxc/centos-6-x86_64/etc/yum||.repos.d/ -p |
 |cat||/etc/yum||.repos.d||/CentOS-Base||.repo
 |||sed||s/||'$releasever'||/6/g/var/lib/libvirt/lxc/centos-6-x86_64/etc/yum||.repos.d||/CentOS-Base||.repo|
 |yum groupinstall core
 --installroot=||/var/lib/libvirt/lxc/centos-6-x86_64/||--nogpgcheck -y|
 |yum||install||plymouth libselinux-python
 --installroot=||/var/lib/libvirt/lxc/centos-6-x86_64/||--nogpgcheck -y|

 On your *CHROOTED* container:
 |chroot||/var/lib/libvirt/lxc/centos-6-x86_64/|
 |echo||password |||passwd||root --stdin|
 |#Fix root login on console|
 |echo||pts/0/etc/securetty|
 |sed||-i s/||session required pam_selinux.so close||/||#session
 required pam_selinux.so close||/g||/etc/pam||.d||/login|
 |sed||-i s/||session required pam_selinux.so open||/||#session
 required pam_selinux.so open||/g||/etc/pam||.d||/login|
 |sed||-i s/||session required pam_loginuid.so||/||#session required
 pam_loginuid.so||/g||/etc/pam||.d||/login|
 |#Configuring basic networking|
 |cat/etc/sysconfig/network|| EOF|
 |NETWORKING=||yes|
 |HOSTNAME=lxc1.||test||.centos.org|
 |EOF|
 |cat/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0|| EOF|
 |DEVICE=eth0|
 |BOOTPROTO=dhcp|
 |ONBOOT=||yes|
 |EOF|
 |#Enabling sshd|
 |chkconfig sshd on|
 |# Fixing root login for sshd|
 |sed||-i s/||session required pam_selinux.so close||/||#session
 required pam_selinux.so close||/g||/etc/pam||.d||/sshd|
 |sed||-i s/||session required pam_loginuid.so||/||#session required
 pam_loginuid.so||/g||/etc/pam||.d||/sshd|
 |sed||-i s/||session required pam_selinux.so open
 env_params||/||#session required pam_selinux.so open
 env_params||/g||/etc/pam||.d||/sshd|
 ||
 |cat/etc/fstab|| END|
 |/dev/root| |/ rootfs   defaults0 0|
 |none ||/dev/shm| |tmpfs nosuid,nodev0 0|
 |END|
 ||
 |cat/etc/init/lxc-sysinit||.conf  END|
 |start on startup|
 |env||container|
 |pre-start script|
 |||if||[||x$container||!=||xlxc||-a||x$container||!=||xlibvirt||];||then|
 |||stop;|
 |||fi|
 |||initctl start||tty||TTY=console|
 |||rm||-f||/var/lock/subsys/||*|
 |||rm||-f||/var/run/||*.pid|
 |||telinit 3|
 |||exit||0;|
 |end script|
 |END|
 ||
 |#Exit the chroot|
 |exit|

 Tar it:
 |cd||/var/lib/libvirt/lxc/centos-6-x86_64|
 |tar||cvf centos-6-x86_64_lxc.||tar||.

 Upload to CloudStack and enjoy!
 |


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 fgaudrea...@cloudops.com
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A word about cloudy stuff at ApacheCon

[David Nalley]

Hello mah cloudies,

Just a reminder that in addition to CloudStack Collab Conference (Apr
9-11), ApacheCon is happening immediately prior to it at the same
location (Apr 7-9) and there is a dedicated cloud track with talks
from a number of the cloudy Apache talks, as well as a number of other
interesting things (10 tracks of Apache-content per day)

Take a look at the schedule here:
http://apacheconnorthamerica2014.sched.org/overview#.UxdPsEJ5r-Y

So please join us for CCC and arrive a couple of days early to see ApacheCon.

--David

Re: CloudStack-setup-management

[David Nalley]

Don't start tomcat using 'service tomcat6 (re)start' ensure that it's
stopped (service tomcat6 stop) and then use 'service
cloudstack-management start'

--David

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:22 PM, María Noelia Gil marianoelia@um.es wrote:
 Hello, I have looked / var / log / CloudStack / management / 
 management-server.log and the problem is that tomcat is not running:

 DEBUG: root: Failed to execute: * CloudStack-specific Tomcat servlet engine 
 is not running.

 I do not know how to start it, because service tomcat6 restart restart the 
 service, but now tomcat can not find the resource /client.


 El 27/02/2014, a las 01:10, Erdősi Péter f...@niif.hu escribió:

 / ?

Re: CloudStack-setup-management

[David Nalley]

Look in /var/log/cloudstack/management/catalina.out and see what the
problem is.

--David

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:29 PM, María Noelia Gil marianoelia@um.es wrote:
 When I run service management CloudStack-start, the following is displayed:

   * Starting Tomcat servlet CloudStack-specific engine CloudStack-management 
 [fail]

 El 27/02/2014, a las 01:24, David Nalley da...@gnsa.us escribió:

 service
 cloudstack-management star

Re: CloudStack-setup-management

[David Nalley]

Yes - unless you compiled packages yourself. You need a 64-bit arch
distribution of linux for the packages supplied by the community.

--David

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:55 PM, María Noelia Gil marianoelia@um.es wrote:
 I have installed ubuntu 32 bits, can be the problem?

 El 27/02/2014, a las 01:46, María Noelia Gil marianoelia@um.es escribió:

 When running service management CloudStack-start, no information is 
 displayed in the log file.

 El 27/02/2014, a las 01:41, David Nalley da...@gnsa.us escribió:

 Look in /var/log/cloudstack/management/catalina.out and see what the
 problem is.

Re: VPC and Redundant VRs

[David Nalley]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Andrei Mikhailovsky and...@arhont.com wrote:


 Hello guys,


 Not sure if it's me, but I am unable to tick the option to allow Redundant 
 VRs when creating a new network offering for the VPCs. My aim is to have VPCs 
 with redundant virtual routers, just like what I have for other guest 
 networks.


 Is this a GUI bug or is this functionality not yet available?


As Rajesh has noted this doesn't currently exist yet. You may want to
look into the conversation going on around development of this on
dev@:

http://cloudstack.markmail.org/thread/crrgwhpuw44z7vj6

--David

Re: CS 4.2 VM Deployments slow and/or broken

[David Nalley]

What version?



On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Nick Wales n...@nickwales.co.uk wrote:
 Hey, I'm having awful performance spinning up machines, with some taking
 ages to eventually fail.

 The majority of the error messages seem to stem from this:


 == cloudstack-agent.out ==
 2014-01-24 14:14:30,779{GMT} WARN  [cloud.agent.Agent]
 (agentRequest-Handler-1:) Caught:
 java.lang.NullPointerException
 at 
 com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.execute(LibvirtComputingResource.java:2469)
 at 
 com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.executeRequest(LibvirtComputingResource.java:1230)
 at com.cloud.agent.Agent.processRequest(Agent.java:525)
 at com.cloud.agent.Agent$AgentRequestHandler.doTask(Agent.java:852)
 at com.cloud.utils.nio.Task.run(Task.java:83)
 at 
 java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1146)
 at 
 java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)

 and

 2014-01-24 19:22:30.842+: 6099: error : virNetSocketReadWire:1184
 : End of file while reading data: Input/output error
 Any ideas / help much appreciated!

 Nick

Re: Unusual bare-metal scenario - practical?

[David Nalley]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@mozilla.com wrote:
 I'm looking for info on CloudStack's support for bare-metal provisioning.  
 All I've found are a few 4.2 design documents that seem to be still works in 
 progress[1], and in fact seem focused on a Windows installer utility (PING).

 We at Mozilla have a bit of an unusual use-case, and I'm wondering how 
 practical it will be to add support for it.  I'm sure there will be a decent 
 amount of coding involved, and if those can be distributed as distinct 
 plugins or upstreamed to the CloudStack distribution, all the better!  We are 
 big supporters of OSS at Mozilla, after all.

 The case is this: we have a bunch of typical commodity servers, a bunch of 
 Mac Minis, and a bunch of development boards (Pandaboards, in particular).  
 We have tools in place for doing manual provisioning: IPMI for server power 
 and IP-addressable power supplies for the Minis and Pandaboards, along with 
 MDT for Windows, Kickstart for Linux (both PXE), Casper for OS X (Netboot), 
 and a PXE-based custom solution for development boards[2].  Our DNS, DHCP, 
 and network configuration is built from our internal inventory app[3], so 
 CloudStack would need to be able to interface with inventory to make such 
 changes.  We'd like to dynamically provision OS's onto all of this hardware, 
 with the servers getting either Linux and Windows, the Minis getting various 
 flavors of OS X, and the development boards getting various flavors of 
 Android and Firefox OS.

 My hope is that we could add plugins that would glue CloudStack to some of 
 the tools we're already using.  Is that practical?  Totally impractical?  Am 
 I taking the wrong approach?  Will I be able to support all of these various 
 backends in a single CloudStack instance?

 TIA,
 Dustin

 [1] 
 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Baremetal
 [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/Mozpool
 [3] https://github.com/mozilla/inventory

 P.S. Apologies for those who saw a similar post on the OpenStack list - I am, 
 indeed, looking for similar feedback here.


Hi Dustin, I am far from an expert on all of the baremetal stuff but
I'll try and take a first stab; and I've cced some folks who should be
able to help provide better answers.

So CloudStack's baremetal support has become a bit more modular; so
let me start with the history. Essentially in the 3.x days it was Ping
- and we had an interface to interact with PING. If you've used PING
you know that it's full of compromises, and while arguably simpler
than RIS was for Windows deployment, it's absolutely archaic compared
to some of the better tools out there for Unix-based distributions.

So the second generation of baremetal in CloudStack was designed with
the idea that there would be 'something' handling provisioning and
that CloudStack needed to be able to interact with it; but if you are
implementing a IaaS layer you should probably already have a modern
provisioning system in place, and we should just be able to talk to
it. (ideally via an API) So today there are essentially three
baremetal plugins - PING, Kickstart, and UCS (though UCS is much more
than just provisionining.) I don't know directly about UCS, but
Kickstart and PING control server power/boot with IPMI; so not a whole
lot different.

I think the documents that you found are largely from a wiki migration
- I've linked to some of the others below that are a bit more updated.

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Baremetal+KickStart
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Enhanced+Baremetal+support+on+Cisco+UCS
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Plug-ins%2C+Modules%2C+and+Extensions

Someone at one point had a document on writing your own plugin for
baremetal - I'll try and scrounge around and find it.

In short, completely doable to write your own plugins to do what you
are looking for; and I'd love to see your patches for adding support
for Casper and MDT :) CloudStack can easily do any number of
'baremetal' plugins in a single plane of management; along with mixing
and matching hypervisors. In example, you could have a single zone[1]
with KVM, VMware, Xenserver hypervisor offerings as well as utilizing
a number of different baremetal plugins (which for all intents and
purposes, CloudStack treats as a 'hypervisor')

Frank: What else should we tell Dustin?

--David

Re: Cloudstack 4.2.1 / Xenserver 6.1 GRE tunnelling / createTunnelNetwork failed

[David Nalley]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:08 AM, Sebastien Goasguen run...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Jan 14, 2014, at 10:50 PM, Nguyen Anh Tu t...@apache.org wrote:

  Hi Dag,
 
  I updated GRE modules to make it work fine with XenServer and XCP during
  the summer. It now appears on master branch. Maybe it will added to future
  releases.

 Tuna, since you are a committer you can commit your patches to the 4.2 
 branch, this will make it to 4.2.2 release.

 If it's not on 4.3 branch yet, it's probably too late because we are way past 
 code freeze.


If it's a bug, lets get it identified (and filed) and discuss on dev@,
maybe it gets fixed in 4.3, but at least in 4.3.1.

--David

Re: [Doc] [4.3] Service Monitoring Tool for Virtual Router for Review [CLOUDSTACK-5292]

[David Nalley]

Hi Radhika, Sanjeev:

Thanks for the answer, makes a bit more sense now.

--David

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Radhika Puthiyetath
radhika.puthiyet...@citrix.com wrote:
 Hi David,

 For this release, there is no admin-specific actions, but in the coming 
 releases there are enhancements coming which alerts the admin. Keeping those 
 enhancements in mind, I added this content.

 -Original Message-
 From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us]
 Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 7:59 PM
 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
 Cc: d...@cloudstack.apache.org
 Subject: Re: [Doc] [4.3] Service Monitoring Tool for Virtual Router for 
 Review [CLOUDSTACK-5292]

 Hi Radhika:

 So I read this section and while the documentation is clear on what it does; 
 it's not clear on how I use it. If it isn't intended to be exposed to the 
 administrator and just runs in the background like so many things in 
 CloudStack does already, why document it at all in the admin guide? Why I 
 read that there is a monitoring tool it instantly makes me want to go check 
 status, so that I know that I can verify status if something goes awry.

 --David

 On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Radhika Puthiyetath 
 radhika.puthiyet...@citrix.com wrote:
 Hi,

 4.3 Documentation is getting ready to be reviewed. I have prepared the first 
 draft for the feature, Enhanced Upgrade for Virtual Router.

 Please see section 16.5.4. Service Monitoring Tool for Virtual Router, and 
 let me know your feedback.

 1.The documentation is uploaded at 
 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ 
 CLOUDSTACK-5292https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-5292
 2.

 Regards
 -Radhika

Re: Active-Active CloudStack, what about cloudstack-usage?

[David Nalley]

It needs to run only on one node - but I don't think there are any
deleterious effects (aside from wasted CPU cycles) from having more
than one.

--David

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Francois Gaudreault
fgaudrea...@cloudops.com wrote:
 Quick question,

 We deployed two management servers for CloudStack, and they are behind a
 load balancer to be able to use them in active-active. What about the usage
 service? Does it need to run only on one node or both?

 Thanks!

 --
 Francois Gaudreault
 Architecte de Solution Cloud | Cloud Solutions Architect
 fgaudrea...@cloudops.com
 514-629-6775
 - - -
 CloudOps
 420 rue Guy
 Montréal QC  H3J 1S6
 www.cloudops.com
 @CloudOps_

Re: Active-Active CloudStack, what about cloudstack-usage?

[David Nalley]

Shouldn't be any issue with that.

--David

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Francois Gaudreault
fgaudrea...@cloudops.com wrote:
 OK. Any chance of duplicate entries if we have two usage server running?

 Francois


 On 1/14/2014, 2:19 PM, David Nalley wrote:

 It needs to run only on one node - but I don't think there are any
 deleterious effects (aside from wasted CPU cycles) from having more
 than one.

 --David

 On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Francois Gaudreault
 fgaudrea...@cloudops.com wrote:

 Quick question,

 We deployed two management servers for CloudStack, and they are behind a
 load balancer to be able to use them in active-active. What about the
 usage
 service? Does it need to run only on one node or both?

 Thanks!

 --
 Francois Gaudreault
 Architecte de Solution Cloud | Cloud Solutions Architect
 fgaudrea...@cloudops.com
 514-629-6775
 - - -
 CloudOps
 420 rue Guy
 Montréal QC  H3J 1S6
 www.cloudops.com
 @CloudOps_




 --
 Francois Gaudreault
 Architecte de Solution Cloud | Cloud Solutions Architect
 fgaudrea...@cloudops.com
 514-629-6775
 - - -
 CloudOps
 420 rue Guy
 Montréal QC  H3J 1S6
 www.cloudops.com
 @CloudOps_

Re: [Doc] [4.3] Service Monitoring Tool for Virtual Router for Review [CLOUDSTACK-5292]

[David Nalley]

Hi Radhika:

So I read this section and while the documentation is clear on what it
does; it's not clear on how I use it. If it isn't intended to be
exposed to the administrator and just runs in the background like so
many things in CloudStack does already, why document it at all in the
admin guide? Why I read that there is a monitoring tool it instantly
makes me want to go check status, so that I know that I can verify
status if something goes awry.

--David

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Radhika Puthiyetath
radhika.puthiyet...@citrix.com wrote:
 Hi,

 4.3 Documentation is getting ready to be reviewed. I have prepared the first 
 draft for the feature, Enhanced Upgrade for Virtual Router.

 Please see section 16.5.4. Service Monitoring Tool for Virtual Router, and 
 let me know your feedback.

 1.The documentation is uploaded at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ 
 CLOUDSTACK-5292https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-5292
 2.

 Regards
 -Radhika

Re: Host with Id: null after upgrade to 4.2.0

[David Nalley]

Any thoughts, Brian?

I am noticing the regions icon problem as well on my 4.2.1 deployment.

--David

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Cody Rucks crucks2...@gmail.com wrote:
 So, all of these issues seemed to go away with an upgrade to 4.2.1. I found
 a similar case someone had and upgrading to 4.2.1 resolved it for them.
 Luckily, it did for me as well. If anyone wants the logs, let me know. I
 expired the previous links.

 The only other thing I can't seem to fix are some UI issues. The regions
 icon on the navigation pane is missing along with the region logo by the
 log in/log out drop-down. The CSS is right, the sprites.png is there as
 well. I compared them to a recent install on a different instance and
 nothing looks noticeably different. Any ideas?


 On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Cody Rucks crucks2...@gmail.com wrote:

 Good Day,

 I recently added another management server, but did so with 4.2.0. As a
 result, the db was upgraded (without a backup). To get the old management
 server working, I had to upgrade it to 4.2.0.

 Now, it seems that we cannot deploy VM's. The pastebin contains some log
 information from management-server.log.

 Environment:
 CloudStack 4.2.0
 XCP (Xen Cloud Platform) 1.6
 MS log: http://pastebin.com/fDntzdtB
 catalina log: http://pastebin.com/8KKFt8a4

 Earlier, the ssvm and console vm would not create -- I had destroyed them
 when I couldn't get the agent to connect after a reboot. Something is also
 wrong with the secondary management server and after rebooting it and then
 restarting cloudstack-management service on the main MS the system vm's
 created.

 The UI on the MS is also missing some icons and such. On the secondary MS
 this isn't the case.

Re: Unable to find components.xml in CloudStack4.2.1

[David Nalley]

Hi Aaron:

Any chance this user-authenticator-plugin is suitable for ACS to
consume and you'd consider submitting a patch to upstream it?

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Aaron Kim kimwoohyun...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am currently working on the CloudStack4.2.1.

 I wrote a new user-authenticator plugin(or adapter) instead of using the
 MD5-wise authentication.
 But I cloud not find the components.xml under /etc/cloudstack/management/
 when applying the plugin to the running cloudstack management server.
 Was the way to configure plugins changed from the last version of the
 CloudStack?
 What do I should to apply my own plugin(or adapter)?

 Thank you in advance.

[ANNOUNCE] Apache CloudStack 4.2.1 released

[David Nalley]

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The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the 4.2.1 release
of the CloudStack cloud orchestration platform. This is a minor
release of the 4.2.0 branch which released on Oct 1, 2013. The 4.2.1
release contains more than 150 bug fixes. As a bug fix release, no new
features are included in 4.2.1.

The 4.2.1 release includes fixes for a number of issues; including
problems with Xenserver VMSnapshots, UCS, device ID for Xen,
configurable option to choose single Vs multipart upload for S3 API,
allowing network with public IP Address without needing SourceNAT, and
documentation fixes.

As a minor release it is a simple upgrade from 4.2.0 with no
architectural changes. CloudStack Management Servers Services, and all
SystemVMs will require a restart.

This release also addresses two security issues CVE-2013-6398 and CVE-2014-0031

Documentation

The 4.2.1 release notes[0] includes full list of corrected issues as
well as upgrade instructions from previous versions of Apache
CloudStack. Please see the Release Notes for a full list of corrected
issues and upgrade instructions.

The official installation, administration and API documentation for
each release are available at our documentation site[1].

Downloads

The official source code for the 4.2.1 release can be downloaded from
http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html

In addition to the official source code release, individual
contributors have also made convenience binaries in the form or RPM
and Deb packages available from the download page.

About Apache CloudStack

Apache CloudStack is an integrated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
software platform that allows users to build feature-rich public and
private cloud environments. CloudStack includes an intuitive user
interface and rich APIs for managing the compute, networking,
software, and storage infrastructure resources. The project became an
Apache top level project in March 2013.

For additional marketing or communications information, please contact
the marketing mailing list at market...@cloudstack.apache.org

To learn how to join and contribute to the Apache CloudStack community
please visit http://cloudstack.apache.org

[0] 
http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.2.1/html/Release_Notes/index.html
[1] http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs
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Re: Cloudstack user-data empty for VMs

[David Nalley]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Derek Cole derek.c...@gmail.com wrote:
 I will see what I can do. I dont have a github presently, but since I am
 mostly working with FreeBSD I had to fix puppet's service resource, jason
 hancocks section that look for dhcp leases and a couple of other things.
 The userdata fix I put in seems to be working, though not when the puppet
 agent is ubuntu presently, so I am trying to track that down.

 I only saw one other branch in dans and it was showing like 9 months ago
 for the latest work - is that the correct place I am looking?


Don't worry about github if it's too much hassle - a simple patch is
fine as well.

The problem with Ubuntu is probably related to the DHCP client, but not sure.

Yeah 9 months sounds about right - it's languished a bit since Dan
changed employers.

--David

Re: Cloudstack user-data empty for VMs

[David Nalley]

Hi Derek:

Glad that the puppet resources are useful.

Setting user-data is different than setting group:

Look at the options here:
http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/apidocs-4.2/user/deployVirtualMachine.html

--David

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Derek Cole derek.c...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,

 I am attempting to use the cloudstack API to get user-data for my VMs.

 I am creating the VMs with the puppet cloudstack-resources module, and it
 seems to populate it (From the cloudstack GUI, under Group I see my data)

 However, when I do a

 wget http://router/latest/user-data

 I get back an empty file. On the VR itself I have checked and there are a
 bunch of /var/www/html/userdata/IP/user-data files, but every one of them
 is empty. This same applies to VMs that I added the Group user data
 manually.

 The VM's are all FreeBSD10, and I am using xenserver 6.2, and cloudstack 4.2

 Is this a bug? Is there a workaround or a fix?

 Thanks

Re: Cloudstack user-data empty for VMs

[David Nalley]

Yeah - it's definitely a work in progress - if you look at Dan Bode's
cloudstack_resources, he actually has a ton of additional work in a
different branch that hasn't yet been validated. It's on my list to
get around to that in the next few weeks. What you likely saw (esp if
it was my presentation) was a combination of Jason Hancock's work
around userdata and his fact - and then separately the resources and
types for CloudStack. There are some folks who use CloudStack's
records of hosts as a ENC - and that's where the 'Group=' stuff leaks
into the presentation - essentially they query for the host - and
parse the Group records and make catalog decisions off of that rather
than a fact. (Keep in mind the 'down side' of going the fact route, is
that essentially an attacker could pass any information back to puppet
and get anything in the catalog theoretically)

Please do submit a pull request for the userdata feature (feel free to
submit it against my repo or Dan's)

--David

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Derek Cole derek.c...@gmail.com wrote:
 Well I started to post about getting something broken. I modified
 cloudstack_resources to take an argument for userdata. I was getting all
 kinds of issues with that, until I realized that the argument in userdata
 has to be base64 encoded. I fixed that, and now my VMs can get their
 metadata! I had seen a demo with this software at a puppet conference but
 it's become clear to me it's not exactly complete, so I have been fighting
 to learn ruby ever since to make things work.

 Thanks for the help.

Re: CS 4.2 + VMware - Dynamic VM scaling problems

[David Nalley]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Gaspare A. Silvestri
g.silves...@netsons.com wrote:
 Hi all,

 I'm currently on a CS 4.2 + VMware vSphere 5.1 infrastructure, and I'm
 having issues with the dynamic resource scaling for Linux virtual
 machines; all the Linux templates are based on 64bit operatins systems.

 All the CS parameters are correct (enable.dynamic.scale.vm and
 scale.retry are configured), the template have been generated by
 enabling the required flag (Dynamically Scalable), and on vSphere I can
 see activated both the options for CPU and RAM hot plug; anyway, I'm not
 able to expand the resources on both CS and VMware sides if the virtual
 machine is up and running.

 I have no problems when working with Windows Server templates, for which
 I'm able to expand resource when the machine is powered on.

 Any suggest / help / idea?

 Thanks in advance,

 Gaspare

What is the distro and version of Linux?

Does the underlying operating system support CPU/memory hotplug?

Can you dynamically scale a VM just using vSphere 5.1?

--David

Re: 回复： Starting Cloudstack-specific Tomcat engine cloudstack-management [fail]

[David Nalley]

So the management server should work just fine with 32 bit - but if
you are using pre-compiled binaries from the yum/apt repos, we only
build for 64 bit. You could certainly build this for yourself, but not
sure there's a lot of reason to.

--David

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 9:22 AM, 5度倾斜 465296...@qq.com wrote:
 thank you for your suggestion :D
 I made CloudStack4.2.0 started successfully, by install a 64-bit Ubuntu 
 server OS rather than the old 32-bit one.
 Reboot can't solve the problem,i've tried many times,and i still don't know 
 the reason,maybe just don't suppport 32-bit OS ?
 best wishes for you,thank u!




 -- 原始邮件 --
 发件人: Du Jun;
 发送时间: 2013年11月15日(星期五) 下午3:16
 收件人: users;
 主题: Re: Starting Cloudstack-specific Tomcat engine cloudstack-management 
 [fail]



 It seems that Your resources provided for cloudstack-management server is
 not enough.Remember,sometimes,reboot is the best practice for solving
 Tomcat engine start fail.


 2013/11/15 5度倾斜 465296...@qq.com

 hi!
 i got a new ubuntuserver 12.04 i386 to install Cloudstack-management
 version 4.2,i followed the guide on cloudstack.org step by step, but the
 tomcat just can't run.
 i checked the log in /var/log/cloudstack/management,there is only a
 setupManagement.log and seems nothing useful.then i went through the
 /var/log/syslog,found pages of error like ubuntuServer1 jsvc.exec[3612]:
 Error occurred during initialization of VM#012Could not reserve enough
 space for object heap.what might be the problem?
 thank you!

Re: Compute offerings and Templates

[David Nalley]

The question is (at least in my mind) do you want the deployment to
fail (appropriately) or to 'work' from the end user perspective, even
if it doesn't follow your way of getting things done perfectly.

Before we dig into it, you could create template names or descriptions
with hints to help folks along.

So the easiest solution is to tag one of your XS storage offerings
with the same tags. So if someone screws up, and chooses a XS
template, and a VMW-intended service offering, it will still deploy -
they'll be slightly disappointed but at least working.

Neither of these seem elegant - ideally we'd limit what you could see
based on the previous choices before, but CloudStack doesn't currently
do that.


--David

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Steve Searles ssear...@zimcom.net wrote:
 I am looking for a little guidance in tying templates to compute offerings or 
 filtering them in the instance deployment wizard. For example as we step 
 through the wizard we can choose Zone - Template - Compute Offering, in our 
 case it is possible to create an undeployable situation by choosing a compute 
 offering where a host tag is defined but the template selected does not 
 support the hypervisor in the host tag.

 For example,  I have both xenserver and vmware.  I have defined a compute 
 offering with a storage tag for Fibrechannel storage that is not available on 
 xenserver but you can still choose that compute offering after selecting a 
 xenserver template which will make an undeployable situation.  Perhaps I am 
 not using host/storage tags properly but they seem to be functioning as 
 intended.  I am trying to make the deployment process as simple as possible 
 for the end user and not allow them to choose incompatible offerings.  I 
 fully admit that I may be looking at this wrong and am looking for some 
 guidance on setting up the offerings.  I have the following defined and it 
 seems kind of a mess.


 Vmware-
 Storage Offering #1 - EMC VMAX (High I/O)
 Storage Offering #2 - EMX VNX (Standard I/O)
 Storage Offering #3 -  EMC ISOLON (NFS/Replicated)

 XenServer Storage Offering #1 - EMC AX (Standard I/O)
   Storage Offering #2 -  EMC ISOLON (NFS/Replicated)



 Steve Searles

Re: Probably more of a dev question...

[David Nalley]

Hi Eric:

So the folks at TrendMicro have done some work around client-focused
crypto of volumes in CloudStack.

CloudStack itself doesn't have object storage (we consume object
storage, but don't write software to provide object storage - plenty
of good projects that do; Ceph, RiakCS, OpenStack Swift, etc.)

You might want to look at HekaFS as well - it's a translator atop
Gluster designed for multi tenant, and does client driven encryption
to ensure isolation even if the security in Gluster is compromised.

--David

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Eric Tykwinski eric-l...@truenet.com wrote:
 Just wondering if anyone has inquired about client side crypto on Amazon S3 
 storage?
 I just got a email from Peter Eckersley from the EFF about a new venture to 
 discuss large scale cryptography.
 New mailing list, if anyone's interested: 
 https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/crypto-ops

 Just wondering if the dev's have thought about implementing anything.  
 Considering this could very well contain confidential information on the 
 snapshots, I'm thinking it might be something to look at.
 I checked the wiki first, but didn't run across it: 
 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Test+Plans

 Sincerely,

 Eric Tykwinski
 TrueNet, Inc.
 P: 610-429-8300
 F: 610-429-3222

Re: can't create instance when use rbd

[David Nalley]

Can you make sure to file a bug with the Ceph folks so the
documentation is updated to be more clear?

--David

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:19 AM, 卢惠勇 luhuiy...@conew.com wrote:
 cephx must be enabled,now it work !
 thanks


 2013/11/4 Suresh Sadhu suresh.sa...@citrix.com

 Did you create service offering using the RBD storage tag.

 While adding  RBD as primary storage provide storage tag as RBD and
 create new service offering  with this storage tag . Then use this service
 offering to create a instance.

 Regards
 sadhu

 -Original Message-
 From: 卢惠勇 [mailto:luhuiy...@conew.com]
 Sent: 04 November 2013 11:41
 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
 Subject: Fwd: can't create instance when use rbd

 HI.i encounter some problem when  use rbd.
 i have successful add rbd to cloudstack primary storage,but it can't
 create instance with rbd,this is the error infomation:

 management log:
 INFO  [cloud.ha.HighAvailabilityManagerImpl] (HA-1:) checking health of
 usage server WARN  [apache.cloudstack.alerts] (HA-1:)  alertType:: 13 //
 dataCenterId::
 0 // podId:: 0 // clusterId:: null // message:: No usage server process
 running INFO  [storage.volume.VolumeServiceImpl] (Job-Executor-1:job-36 = [
 0ec0796a-350a-49d4-9b53-11ad41ef7a6e ]) lock is acquired for
 VMTemplateStoragePool 6 INFO  [storage.volume.VolumeServiceImpl]
 (Job-Executor-1:job-36 = [ 0ec0796a-350a-49d4-9b53-11ad41ef7a6e ])
 releasing lock for VMTemplateStoragePool 6 WARN  [utils.db.Merovingian2]
 (Job-Executor-1:job-36 = [ 0ec0796a-350a-49d4-9b53-11ad41ef7a6e ]) Was
 unable to find lock for the key
 template_spool_ref6 and thread id 2118921053 INFO
  [cloud.vm.VirtualMachineManagerImpl] (Job-Executor-1:job-36 = [
 0ec0796a-350a-49d4-9b53-11ad41ef7a6e ]) Unable to contact resource.
 com.cloud.exception.StorageUnavailableException: Resource [StoragePool:12]
 is unreachable: Unable to create
 Vol[19|vm=16|ROOT]:com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException: Failed
 to copy

 /mnt/0aedf226-58b4-3ec0-9c29-9f27e3748937/0fe1ab18-71ae-30e3-9738-2d82c5f525e0.qcow2
 to 53b0066a-f7b9-4fcc-87e0-2d4dbd1b0db1
  at

 com.cloud.storage.VolumeManagerImpl.recreateVolume(VolumeManagerImpl.java:2544)
 at com.cloud.storage.VolumeManagerImpl.prepare(VolumeManagerImpl.java:2592)
  at

 com.cloud.vm.VirtualMachineManagerImpl.advanceStart(VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java:889)
 at

 com.cloud.vm.VirtualMachineManagerImpl.start(VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java:578)
  at

 org.apache.cloudstack.engine.cloud.entity.api.VMEntityManagerImpl.deployVirtualMachine(VMEntityManagerImpl.java:227)
 at

 org.apache.cloudstack.engine.cloud.entity.api.VirtualMachineEntityImpl.deploy(VirtualMachineEntityImpl.java:209)
  at

 com.cloud.vm.UserVmManagerImpl.startVirtualMachine(UserVmManagerImpl.java:3406)
 at

 com.cloud.vm.UserVmManagerImpl.startVirtualMachine(UserVmManagerImpl.java:2966)
  at

 com.cloud.vm.UserVmManagerImpl.startVirtualMachine(UserVmManagerImpl.java:2952)
 at

 com.cloud.utils.component.ComponentInstantiationPostProcessor$InterceptorDispatcher.intercept(ComponentInstantiationPostProcessor.java:125)
  at

 org.apache.cloudstack.api.command.user.vm.DeployVMCmd.execute(DeployVMCmd.java:420)
 at com.cloud.api.ApiDispatcher.dispatch(ApiDispatcher.java:158)
  at com.cloud.async.AsyncJobManagerImpl$1.run(AsyncJobManagerImpl.java:531)
 at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
  at

 java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1146)
 at

 java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
 WARN  [apache.cloudstack.alerts] (Job-Executor-1:job-36 = [
 0ec0796a-350a-49d4-9b53-11ad41ef7a6e ])  alertType:: 8 // dataCenterId:: 1
 // podId:: 1 // clusterId:: null // message:: Failed to deploy Vm with Id:
 16, on Host with Id: null
 INFO  [user.vm.DeployVMCmd] (Job-Executor-1:job-36 = [
 0ec0796a-350a-49d4-9b53-11ad41ef7a6e ])
 com.cloud.exception.InsufficientServerCapacityException: Unable to create
 a deployment for
 VM[User|2119a010-ea6e-473a-8183-d76cc00d4eb8]Scope=interface
 com.cloud.dc.DataCenter; id=1
 INFO  [user.vm.DeployVMCmd] (Job-Executor-1:job-36 = [
 0ec0796a-350a-49d4-9b53-11ad41ef7a6e ]) Unable to create a deployment for
 VM[User|2119a010-ea6e-473a-8183-d76cc00d4eb8]
 com.cloud.exception.InsufficientServerCapacityException: Unable to create
 a deployment for
 VM[User|2119a010-ea6e-473a-8183-d76cc00d4eb8]Scope=interface
 com.cloud.dc.DataCenter; id=1
  at

 com.cloud.vm.VirtualMachineManagerImpl.advanceStart(VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java:842)
 at

 com.cloud.vm.VirtualMachineManagerImpl.start(VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java:578)
  at

 org.apache.cloudstack.engine.cloud.entity.api.VMEntityManagerImpl.deployVirtualMachine(VMEntityManagerImpl.java:237)
 at

 

Re: ssvm fails to start, [BOOTLOADER_FAILED, OpaqueRef:..., Unable to find partition containing kernel

[David Nalley]

I thought we had since eradicated all of the old sysvm links, can you
tell me where the incorrect links are still showing up?

--David

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Teipel, Bjoern
bjoern.tei...@internetbrands.com wrote:
 The correct template for xen server with 4.2 is now

 http://download.cloud.com/templates/4.2/systemvmtemplate-2013-07-12-master-xen.vhd.bz2

 The documentation still serves the old link. Also CS downloads this template 
 automatically once the secondary storage is available.

 Bjoern

 On Oct 25, 2013, at 5:37 AM, Yugandhar Yetham 
 yugandhar.yet...@gmail.commailto:yugandhar.yet...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Lisa,

 That was i guessed as you are using single server for CS and NFS.

 Don't replace the existing template. if you are using same server for CS
 and NFS. This exported directory /export/secondary will automatically
 mount with your CS.

 Please try it for further.

 -
 Thanks,
 Yugandhar Yetham





 On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Lisa B. 
 nordlicht1...@hotmail.demailto:nordlicht1...@hotmail.de wrote:

 Thanks for your quick reply :)

 @Andrei:

 Unfortunately it did not fix the problem. I still get exactly the same
 error. I deleted the old template, reran the command with the new URL. When
 that did not work I re-initialized the db and re-installed the template
 again.

 I followed the 4.2 install procedures. I just used the old URL.

 @Yugnadhar

 I have a single server for ACS and NFS. :/export/secondary is the NFS
 share and it is mounted as /mnt/secondary. I followed the instructions in
 the ACS docs on how to setup NFS. But nevertheless I tried to install the
 template into /export/secondary like you said. It worked fine and replaced
 the existing template. It is just the same directory.

 Any other ideas?

 Lisa

 
 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:39:40 +0100
 From: and...@arhont.commailto:and...@arhont.com
 To: users@cloudstack.apache.orgmailto:users@cloudstack.apache.org
 Subject: Re: ssvm fails to start, [BOOTLOADER_FAILED, OpaqueRef:...,
 Unable to find partition containing kernel



 I also reran the systemvm template command
 cloud-install-sys-tmplt -m /mnt/secondary -u
 http://download.cloud.com/templates/acton/acton-systemvm-02062012.vhd.bz2-h 
 xenserver -F
 Is it still the correct URL for CS 4.2? It was successfully installed
 once again as it was during installation.

 I do not believe this is the correct url. You need to get the new
 templates. Take a look at the following url:


 http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.2.0/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#prepare-system-vm-template

 It's got the instructions for ACS 4.2

 Andrei

Re: Doc Updates

[David Nalley]

And just as a heads up, thanks for help from Prasanna and Travis, I've
published an updated version of the IG for 4.2, hopefully that at
least gets us 'installable'.

--David

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:10 PM, David Nalley da...@gnsa.us wrote:
 On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Travis Graham tgra...@tgraham.us wrote:
 What's an acceptable/expected timeframe for rolling out the published fixes 
 once a patch has made it's way in? Is that something that can be automated 
 after a successful Jenkins run?

 Travis


 It depends on the scope of changes. For a document like the release
 notes, assuming someone already has an updated SVN tree, it shouldn't
 take more than 30 minutes to update, and it could happen pretty
 regularly. If it's every document in a single release, that's
 historically taken the better part of a day. I don't think we'll get
 away with getting it to happen in an automated fashion, simply because
 it requires commit access to SVN, which is tied to an individual,
 which means someone would need to expose their creds, which would be a
 bad thing.

 --David

Re: Doc Updates

[David Nalley]

That is how it has been done previously - but we recently moved docs
to their own repo to separate the software lifecycle from the docs
lifecycle, and we have already had at least one update pushed to the
docs post-release. The goal is to try and keep this up, and I hope to
publish another set of updates tomorrow or over the weekend.

Bad docs make even the best software unusable IMO. That said, we could
use more eyeballs - at least identify the problems for us. Bonus
points for fixes.

--David

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Carlos Reategui create...@gmail.com wrote:
 It seems like the only way that docs (
 http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/index.html) are updated is when a
 release is done.  Is it not possible to have these updated otherwise?
  Waiting for the next patch release of the software so that the docs get
 updated is causing problems with folks not being able to get CloudStack
 installed properly and therefore gives them a bad impression of the
 maturity of CloudStack.

 It makes no sense to me why there are multiple versions of documents for
 each of the point releases (currently there is 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.1.0,
 4.1.1 and 4.0.2 docs) when the feature set has not changed within each of
 these.  I understand that the docs are built as part of the build and
 release process but why does that have to impact the rate at which the
 primary doc site is updated.  Can't the patch releases simply update the
 release notes?  Personally I think there should be a single 4.x version of
 the docs (I would be ok with a 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 versions too if major
 features are going to be added to them).  Maybe the doc site should have
 wiki like capabilities so that it can be more easily maintained.

 ok, I am done ranting...

Re: Doc Updates

[David Nalley]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Travis Graham tgra...@tgraham.us wrote:
 What's an acceptable/expected timeframe for rolling out the published fixes 
 once a patch has made it's way in? Is that something that can be automated 
 after a successful Jenkins run?

 Travis


It depends on the scope of changes. For a document like the release
notes, assuming someone already has an updated SVN tree, it shouldn't
take more than 30 minutes to update, and it could happen pretty
regularly. If it's every document in a single release, that's
historically taken the better part of a day. I don't think we'll get
away with getting it to happen in an automated fashion, simply because
it requires commit access to SVN, which is tied to an individual,
which means someone would need to expose their creds, which would be a
bad thing.

--David

Re: DevCloud with Centos and Xen

[David Nalley]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:15 PM, CK cloudw...@gmail.com wrote:
 Does anyone know if Centos 4.2 running Xen (not xenserver) hypervisor work
 with CloudStack 4.2?

In a few words; not easily.
CloudStack talks to the XenAPI - which CentOS doesn't have by default.
There was some work to build XAPI on EL6 with the CentOS + Xen work
that was happening, but I don't know where that stands. If you did get
XAPI on CentOS, you'd still likely need to fake the version
information.

--David

Re: Error building Cloudstack 4.2 RPMs

[David Nalley]

Hi Jamie:

So as has been pointed out, you can use pre-built RPMs if you wish.

If you really need to build your ownI don't know what to suggest -
the RPMs built fine for me on CentOS 6.4 x86_64 from the tarball.

A couple of things - what version of Java? 6 or 7? OpenJDK or
something else? Any chance system log4j is installed?

I am copying Francois on this - he ran into the same test failure back
in March - perhaps he knows how it was resolved.

--David

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Jamie Carranza gojamieg...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi All, I'm trying to build Cloudstack 4.2 RPMs and keep running up against
 the same error, this looks like the most important part:

 Failed tests:
 appendTest(org.apache.cloudstack.alert.snmp.SnmpTrapAppenderTest): error
 snmpHelper list size not as expected  expected:0 but was:2

 The full error is here: http://pastebin.com/0i4hbibQ

 I start from a fresh CentOS 6.3 or 6.4 box and follow instructions from
 here:
 https://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.2.0/html/Installation_Guide/sect-source-buildrpm.html
 with no luck.

 Has anyone else run into a similar error?

 -Jamie

Re: ssvm not taking ip from cloudstack

[David Nalley]

Why are you running competing DHCP servers on networks that CloudStack
supposes are its networks?

There are ways around this, essentially configure your non-CloudStack
DHCP instance to ignore any of the MACs range handed out by
CloudStack.

--David

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:11 AM,  jagadeeshwaran@wipro.com wrote:
 Hi all.
 I have installed cloudstack 4.1.1 and connected with esxi 4.1 
 through vcenter.  After that ssvm and console proxy vm started.but these 
 system vms are not taking ip from cloudstack, its getting ip from esxi.

 In cloudstack ui it has a different ip.  Its trying to connect to the system 
 vm through that ip and fails. Kindly help me .

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Re: GPG key expired

[David Nalley]

Hi Markus.

That repository is maintained by Wido den Hollander - and I just spoke with
him on IRC and he indicates that he has updated the key located there. Let
us know if you have any other problems.

--David


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Dietsch, Markus m.diet...@mid.de wrote:

   Hi list,

 ** **

 the gpg key of http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/release.asc seems to be
 expired:

 ** **

 apt-key list

 /etc/apt/trusted.gpg

 

 pub   2048R/86C278E3 2012-09-07 [expired: 2013-09-07]

 uid  Apache CloudStack cloudstack-...@apache.org

 ** **

 After updating the sources.list I always get the following error:

 ** **

 W: GPG error: http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu precise Release: The following
 signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1378559179 KEYEXPIRED 1378559179
 KEYEXPIRED 1378559179

 ** **

 Can you please provide a new key?

 ** **

 Sorry for writing directly but I don’t want to subcribe to the list but
 only report this issue.

 ** **

 Thanks in advance and cheers,

 ** **

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Re: Cloudstack UI

[David Nalley]

Yep - and several people do.
In the 2.2.x versions we used to have a document on doing so, but
things as simple as changing a logo should be relatively obvious.

--David

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Michael Phillips
mphilli7...@hotmail.com wrote:
 Can the UI be branded with your company logo etc?

Re: Error blocking CS 4.1.1 build/run joy

[David Nalley]

 I've given my last best shot at building CS 4.1.1.
 At the end of the build I get an error and no joy.
 Now, it's time to ask for some help.


Hi Clay:

Is there a reason you are building on your own, or could you use the
prebuilt packages?

http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/rhel/4.1/

--David

Re: Installing XenServer Hotfixes

[David Nalley]

Please do open a bug for that.

--David

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 7:04 AM, France mailingli...@isg.si wrote:
 I went ahead anyway.
 The only thing i noticed is that, /opt/xensource/sm/NFSSR.py was replaced
 with it's original version.
 I've took one from 4.1.0 and replaced it. It would be nice to see that
 cloudstack would check for correct versions of modified scripts and upload
 them itself. Maybe i'll enter a new feature request on jira.



 On 10/8/13 12:20 PM, France wrote:

 Hi all,

 i'm about to install latest three XenServer 6.0.2 hotfixes.
 Do i still need to follow whole upgrade instructions (especially
 cloud-prepare-upgrade.sh and cloud-clean-vlan.sh) from:

 http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.1/html/Installation_Guide/citrix-xenserver-installation.html#xenserver-version-upgrading
 Or can i just un-manage cluster, install hotfixes, update xenserver master
 first, migrate VM's and reboot hyperivosors?

 Tnx.
 F.

Re: Maven Error when Building DEB packages

[David Nalley]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 8:34 PM, John Cabs lito...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Guys,

 I was trying to install CS v.4.1.1 from scratch with fresh OS (Ubuntu).
 I hit an error (see attached) when building the deb packages with maven, I
 was following this docs -
 http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.1/html/Installation_Guide/sect-source-builddebs.html
 Am I suppose to use mvn or mvn3? Is a documentation typo error?

 Thanks!

 Litoy

The assumption is that mvn == maven version 3.
The Install guide is pretty clear, IMO, about that requirement. See [1]
If there's a way we can be more clear, please let us know - preferably
by filing a bug against our documentation.



[1] 
http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.1/html/Installation_Guide/sect-source-prereq.html

Re: Does CS support Xen XCP?

[David Nalley]

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Jason Pavao jason.pa...@oracle.com wrote:
 I'm not seeing it mentioned in the docs.. Does anyone know and/or have
 experience running CS (4.0.1/4.0.2/4.1) with Xen XCP?


There are a number of folks who are running XCP with CloudStack.


 Also- If I have existing vms running on KVM or Xen hv's- is there an easy
 way to pull those existing inventories under CS for management? If there is
 a script/particular way to do so, please let me know.


Not really - essentially it's taking the running QCOW2 or VHD and
importing it as a template into CloudStack and then deploying that as
a VM - not terribly clean or efficient, but it works.

--David

Re: segmenting resources on cloud

[David Nalley]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Jason Pavao jason.pa...@oracle.com wrote:
 Folks,
 My initial approach to using cloudstack has been in the context of jenkins
 automation, but over time several new groups have been joining, and bringing
 in new hardware. I am trying to find an easy path to segmenting resources
 based on group. I'm not sure how to approach it on cloudstack. Any
 advice/recommendations would be immensely appreciated.

 --
 Thanks.
 -Jason

In addition to dedicated resources - you probably want to look at
'tags' as well as dedicated zones both of which have existed since
before 4.0

http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.1/html-single/Admin_Guide/index.html#tagging-resources


--David

Re: Debian 7 does not get hostname from dhcp.

[David Nalley]

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Netsons  Roberto Iervolino 
r.iervol...@netsons.com wrote:

  Hi,

 I've done a template using debian 7.0.0, when i deploy an istance from
 this template the VM at the first boot get correctly the hostname from the
 DHCP server, then when I reboot the VM does not get the hostname from the
 DHCP server, and the setted hostname is localhost.

 I've also created other template using CentOS 6.4 and it works fine.


 There is a known issue with debian 7.0.0? How can i solve it?


IIRC this is a known issue with Debian and the version of dhclient they
ship.

--David

Re: DATA-DISK not mounted automatically?

[David Nalley]

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Indra Pramana in...@sg.or.id wrote:
 Hi Ahmad,

 I am referring to newly created virtual machines. Not all end users know
 how to use fdisk and modify fstab. Can I confirm that data-disk not
 auto-mounted upon VM provisioning is the default behaviour of CloudStack?


That is expected behavior.
The additional data-disk will not yet be partioned or formatted any
more than you sliding a new SATA/SAS disk into a machine would be
formatted or partioned.

Partion and create a filesystem on the disk first and then use the
native operating system tools to tell it to mount on boot if need be.

--David

Re: Cloudstack 4.1 Maven install issue - POM

[David Nalley]

Cloud-client is the pre-4.1 name.
cloudstack-management is the 4.1 name for this package.

--David
On Jul 22, 2013 2:32 AM, Karthik Kothuri karthik.koth...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Thanks Indra.

 I did proceed by adding the deb in the cloudstack.list

 Now when I am installing cloudstack-client I see the following error

 reading package list ... Done
 Building dependency tree
 reading state information.. Done
 Package cloud-client is not available, but is referred to by another
 package
 this may mean that the package is missing, has been obsolete, or is only
 available from another source.

 N: Ignoring file 'release.asc' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d' as it
 has been invalid filename extension
 E: Package 'cloud-client' has no installation candidate

 The sources.list.d folder has cloudstack.list*,
 natercarlson-maven3-precise.list, natercarlson-maven3-precise.list.save and
 release.asc*

 I did include the following URL in  cloudstack.list

 deb http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/ubuntu precise 4.1


 I feel I went wrong somewhere.Please help.


 On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Indra Pramana in...@sg.or.id wrote:

  Hi,
 
  If you are using Ubuntu 12.04 (precise), you don't have to compile again
  using Maven since the package repo for Precise is already available.
 
 
 
 http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.0/html/Installation_Guide/configure-package-repository.html#configure-package-repository-deb
 
  There's just a typo error there, it should be 4.1 instead of 4.0.
  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudstack.list should contain:
 
  deb http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/ubuntu precise 4.0
 
  Compiling using Maven is needed for Ubuntu 13.04, since the package repo
 is
  not yet available for raring.
 
  Hope this helps.
 
  Thank you.
 
 
  On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Karthik Kothuri 
  karthik.koth...@eis.ernet.in wrote:
 
   HI,
  
   I am trying to install cloudstack 4.1 on Ubuntu 12.04. When running the
   following command as per the installation document I see an error.
  
  
   mvn clean install -P developer,systemvm
  
  
   Following is the error,
  
  
   Non-resolvable parent POM: Could not transfer artifact artifact
   org.apache:apache:pom:11 from/to central (
   http://repo/maven.apache.org/maven2): repo.maven.apache.org and
   'parent.relativePath' points at wrong local POM @ line 23, cloumn
   11:unknown host
  
  
   It appears that the repo is does not exist. Any solution ?
  
  
   Thanks,
   Karthik.
  
 



 --
 Thanks and Regards,
 Karthik Kothuri

Re: Integration of puppet with cloudstack

[David Nalley]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Chitra Manjunath
chitra_manjun...@infosys.com wrote:

 HI All,

 How to integrate puppet with cloudstack?
 Please  provide link or document.


http://www.slideshare.net/ke4qqq/infrastructure-as-code-with-puppet-and-apache-cloudstack

There should also be some videos that you want to check out - one if
referenced in the above presentation, but there are others as well -
check out the puppetlabs account on youtube and search for CloudStack.

--David

Re: Cloudstack and glusterfs native implementation

[David Nalley]

The feature could be added to the repository at essentially anytime. I
am not sure when the folks working on it will have it done.
I've cced Ilya - he's backported freshly developed features for
CloudStack to stable releases for his distribution, called CloudSand,
and perhaps he'd consider doing something similar for this feature.

--David

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Olivier Mauras
oliv...@core-hosting.net wrote:


 Hi David,

 Thanks for your reply. Sad that it couldn't be added to
 4.2.
 Seeing that 4.1 got out in June and 4.2 is planned to end of this
 month, is it safe to imagine having this feature by
 September?

 Thanks,
 Olivier

 On 2013-07-22 16:01, David Nalley wrote:


 Hi Olivier,

 The folks from Appcore were also recently talking
 about this, and
 after seeing the performance difference in libgfapi
 and FUSE I am
 certainly interested in getting this integrated.
 4.2
 is already in feature freeze, and we are chronologically close to

 releasing it, so it won't be in the next feature version, but could

 certainly appear in the one that follows.

 On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at
 9:54 AM, Olivier Mauras
 oliv...@core-hosting.net wrote:

 Hello,
 Now that glusterfs 3.4 is officially out and that qemu and libvirt
 support it, would that be possible to use glusterfs native
 implementation as main storage?? Native implementation performances are
 really better than using fuse or NFS mountpoint. It would be nice to be
 able to this feature. I haven't found anything so i guess the support
 just doesn't exists yet, is that planned for next release? Is there some
 workaround to enable it on current version? Thanks, Olivier

Re: packets dropped by kernel on host node management nic

[David Nalley]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:34 PM, WXR 1485739...@qq.com wrote:
 Do you mean that if there is a large traffic flow on the nic,the tcpdump will 
 show 'dropped packets'?


Please read the tcpdump manpage for a better explanation, but
essentially, what comes into the nic is written to tcpdump's buffers,
and if tcpdump can't keep up, the kernel will overwrite or 'drop'
packets from the tcpdump buffer. What the nic drops (not iptables)
will never show up in tcpdump's buffer.

--David

Re: NYC CloudStack User Group Meetup #2

[David Nalley]

Phong is in NYC and previously offered to talk about the LXC
integration that they built for CloudStack.

If he does, it please record video.

--David


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Kelly Hair kelly.h...@citrix.com wrote:
 I reached out to Chris Swenson from WebMD after running into him at an event 
 about hosting the 2nd CloudStack User Group meetup.  He obliged with gusto 
 and we're tentatively looking at the first week of September.

 The questions I wanted to pose are:
 - Who should present?
 - What should they cover?

 Since I'm starting the feedback chain – my take:  in the course of my day job 
 on the commercial side, I recently met with Redapt and Basho in NYC and they 
 have both expressed an interest in presenting @ a user group meeting.  
 Additionally, Chris shared that they are talking with Rackware confirmed 
 with Rackware that they are interested in sharing how they are looking to 
 integrate with Apache CloudStack.  We all know what SolidFire has been doing 
 with the storage plugin in Apache CloudStack 4.2.  Then from the top 
 level/cloud management layer you currently have ScalR, RightScale and 
 Dell/Enstratius. It got me to thinking that since CloudStack's main issue is 
 mind share, perhaps it would be important to not only have regular user group 
 meetups, from a brand awareness perspective, but also to serve as further 
 validation of what we already know – CloudStack just works  has a growing 
 number of integrations.

 Anyhow, thought I'd table this  start the feedback chain of actionable ideas.

 Any thoughts?


 PS -  The NYC CloudStack User Group is hosted on Meetup @  
 http://www.meetup.com/CloudStack-NYC-User-Group/

 PPS – Bad form.. I know.. Anyhow, noticed that there was a suggested to on 
 setting up devcloud (see: 
 http://www.meetup.com/CloudStack-NYC-User-Group/messages/boards/thread/34299622#101100342
  )

Re: CloudStack 4.1.0 package repository for Ubuntu 13.04 (raring)?

[David Nalley]

I _think_ that the 12.04 packages should just work for 13.04. I know
of no reason that they shouldn't, but I haven't personally tested and
YMMV.

--David

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Indra Pramana in...@sg.or.id wrote:
 Dear all,

 On the installation guide below:

 http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.0/html/Installation_Guide/configure-package-repository.html

 It is mentioned that only Cloudstack 4.1.0 package repository for Ubuntu
 12.04 LTS (precise) are being built at this time.

 May I know whether there's similar package repository for Ubuntu 13.04
 (raring)?

 Looking forward to your reply, thank you.

 Cheers.

Re: openldap and cloudstack

[David Nalley]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Dean Kamali dean.kam...@gmail.com wrote:
 shanker

 Thank you so much, I have used CloudMonkey and worked from the first try, I
 haven't had much success with using the URL and browser.

 I'm now able to use ldap passwords to log in,for existing users
 in CloudStack, now the natural question follows, is there is away I could
 sync ldap users with CloudStack?

 Thank you


Take a look at the php script in this blogpost for syncing users.
http://sysadminnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/03/cloudstack-ldap.html

--David

Re: How to migrate instances of OpenStack to Cloudstack.

[David Nalley]

I agree with this statement. Configuration of EL6 or Ubuntu or even
Windows image should be trivial given configuration management.

That said, I understand there are some situations where it isn't
practical, or config management isn't in use. The technical answer is:

For converting to/from KVM to to/from raw formats or VMDK qemu-img is
your friend.
For converting to/from VHD for xen, vhd-util is your friend, though
there are several other apps out there.
I have been in places where I had to use qemu-img to do conversions
rather than 'doing it the right way' and it's worked well. If I had
the option though, I think I'd have preferred to put config management
in place and do it in that manner.

--David


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Kirk Jantzer kirk.jant...@gmail.com wrote:
 It is my belief that the cloud is the IaaS and that the applications that
 run on the cloud should be built for failure of the IaaS: they
 (instances/applications) should be rapidly deployable. So, it shouldn't
 matter what cloud product (openstack/cloudstack/vmware/aws/etc...) you
 provide to your customers, they should be able to redeploy their
 application whereever they go or are given for IaaS.


 On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Jason Pavao jason.pa...@oracle.comwrote:

 This is a VERY high level of the steps, dealing with different
 Hyper-visors will produce varying results.

 Is there a low level guide to importing/exporting imagery between kvm, xen
 and  vmware?

 Something concise enough to work well with any cloud?

 -jason


 On 7/14/2013 12:18 AM, Nils Vogels wrote:

 Hi Tao Lin,

 Currently, the only way known to me is

 1) Stop the instance in OpenStack
 2) Import the instance as a template
 3) Create a new instance, based on that template
 4) Run the new instance in CloudStack
 5) Discard the OpenStack instance

 HTH  HAND.

 Nils


 On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Tao Lin linba...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hi,all:
 Is there any method to move instances from Openstack to Cloudstack?
 Both
 OS and CS are using KVM as hypervisor.


 Best regards.




 --
 Thanks.
 -Jason




 --
 Regards,

 Kirk Jantzer
 c: (678) 561-5475
 http://about.met/kirkjantzer

Re: CloudStack News - Moving to Wednesday

[David Nalley]

Yes, there are some problems with roller instance (the underlying
software that blogs.a.o runs). Infrastructure has been discussing the
situation.
There is no immediate timeline on having the issue resolved to my knowledge.

--David

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Ryan Lei ryan...@cht.com.tw wrote:
 Hi, all. According to the Apache infra status
 http://monitoring.apache.org/status/ , the ASF Blog system has been in the
 status of CRITICAL or WARNING for many days, and I'm still not able to
 browse the newsletter website. It's close to Wednesday now. Does anyone
 know what's going on there?

 ---
 Yu-Heng (Ryan) Lei, Associate Reasearcher
 Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories / Cloud Computing Laboratory
 ryan...@cht.com.twhttps://email.cht.com.tw/owa/redir.aspx?C=-wE1FEC3G0SWYpVkiWo8SsDdf3ZqO9AIuAPTzRnFYCUi-z4YljtI_hyVKkNHfn9F1Bn-vUWJnQ4.URL=mailto%3aryanlei%40cht.com.tw
 or
 ryanlei750...@gmail.com



 On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Mathias Mullins
 mathias.mull...@citrix.comwrote:

 - Multi-list send since this is a community wide announcement

 Just a reminder, the community news blog is moving to being published on
 Wednesdays starting this week on July 10! This is to make it more timely
 with the data that we are working on throughout the week.

 Please make sure to have any information, events (including dates), or
 topics that you would like to see covered or focused on posted to the
 marketing@c.a.o mailing list by Monday EOD so we have time to get it in.
 We'll try to get stuff happening in on Tuesday as well. If you would like
 to add it directly to the news feed wiki, please add it at:
 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Weekly+News
 
 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Weekly+News#
 #
 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Weekly+News#
 

 Thanks,
 Matt Mullins

Re: Oracle VM is becoming one of the leaders on Magic Quadrant for x86 Virtualization

[David Nalley]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Alexandre Sousa
alexandre.dso...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Guys,

 This is the last Gartner Report:
 http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1GJA88Jct=130628st=sb

 Oracle VM is getting better year after year, so I believe that this is a
 good reason to include support for Oracle VM 3.x on CloudStack.

 Cheers,
 Alexandre


We would welcome patches that add OVM 3.x support.

--David

Re: Swift in 4.2 is broken, anybody wants it to be supported in 4.2?

[David Nalley]

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Edison Su edison...@citrix.com wrote:
 Due to object store refactor, Swift is broken. The reason, is that, we only 
 have S3 test environment in our lab, so only S3 is tested for now.
 Before adding the feature back, I'd better ask from, the community, do we 
 want to support Swift? If so, which version of Swift? This will take some 
 efforts to support Swift, are there any volunteers can help the integration?


Whats the bug ID for this?
Unplanned/Unannounced deprecation of a feature is a blocker IMO. It
engenders a bad relationship with our users, and strands them on
previous versions with no good migration/upgrade path.

--David

Re: Primary storage failure

[David Nalley]

This warrants a bug IMO.

--David

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Geoff Higginbottom
geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com wrote:
 Dean,

 I am guessing you are using NFS for your Primary Storage.

 This is actually 'by design'.  The logic is that if the storage goes offline, 
 then all VMs must have also failed, and a 'forced' reboot of the Host 'might' 
 automatically fix things.

 This is great if you only have one Primary Storage, but typically you have 
 more than one, so whilst the reboot might fix the failed storage, it will 
 also kill off all the perfectly good VMs which were still happily running.

 The fix for XenServer Hosts is to:

 1. Modify /opt/xensource/bin/xenheartbeat.sh on all your Hosts, commenting 
 out the two entries which have reboot -f

 2. Identify the PID of the script  - pidof -x xenheartbeat.sh

 3. Restart the Script  - kill pid

 4. Force reconnect Host from the UI,  the script will then re-launch on 
 reconnect

 If you running KVM, I'm guessing there is a similar script, but I have not 
 tried this yet for anything other than XenSever (it does not apply to ESXi)

 Regards

 Geoff Higginbottom

 D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581

 geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com


 -Original Message-
 From: Dean Kamali [mailto:dean.kam...@gmail.com]
 Sent: 03 July 2013 19:14
 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
 Subject: Primary storage failure

 Hello everyone

 I'm testing failure scenarios, and I have noticed that as soon as the primary 
 storage gets offline.

 cloudstack management server seems to think that the hypervisor is not 
 responding and it will reboot the node, if you have number of of nodes it 
 will eventually reboot all of them. (losing everything  .. fun! )

 What if I have multiple primary storage and one of them failed? it will 
 reboot all of my hypervisors? it doesn't seems right to me.

 Is there is a way to control this behavior?

 it seems that cloud stack management server needs to be a little smarter.
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Re: RE: Re:RE: Where are the snapshots generated by schedules?

[David Nalley]

What version of ACS are you on?

--David

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:03 AM, WXR 1485739...@qq.com wrote:
 Yes I'm using kvm,but I'm using basic network,not advanced network.
 The jira link give a solution but I don't know how to do it,I'm not familiar 
 with java and git.
 What can I do to fix the bug,should I rebuild the project?


 -- Original --
 From:  Geoff Higginbottomgeoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com;
 Date:  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:38 PM
 To:  users@cloudstack.apache.orgusers@cloudstack.apache.org;

 Subject:  RE: Re:RE: Where are the snapshots generated by schedules?



 Are you using KVM by any chance, there is currently a ticket logged in 
 relation to Scheduled Snapshots failing on KVM.

 If so take a look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1353  
 and see if it mirrors your symptoms

 Regards

 Geoff Higginbottom

 D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581

 geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com


 -Original Message-
 From: WXR [mailto:1485739...@qq.com]
 Sent: 02 July 2013 15:36
 To: users
 Subject: Re:RE: Where are the snapshots generated by schedules?

 I'm sure I have added the schedule and I can see it at the bottom of the 
 schedule box.




 -- Original --
 From:  Geoff Higginbottomgeoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com;
 Date:  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:27 PM
 To:  users@cloudstack.apache.orgusers@cloudstack.apache.org;

 Subject:  RE: Where are the snapshots generated by schedules?



 When setting up the recurring snapshot, ensure that after entering the times 
 etc, you click the Add Button, then the Done Button.  Failing to click the 
 Add button will result in no Schedule being created

 Regards

 Geoff Higginbottom

 D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581

 geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com


 -Original Message-
 From: WXR [mailto:1485739...@qq.com]
 Sent: 02 July 2013 15:14
 To: users
 Subject: Where are the snapshots generated by schedules?

 If I create a snapshot of a volume , I can see it on the snapshot list.
 But if I create a hourly schedule for a volume and wait enough time(longer 
 than 1 day),I can't see any snapshot associated with the volume on the 
 snapshot list.All snapshots listed are manual.
 I don't know if the schedule doesn't work correctly,or the snapshots are 
 generated by schedule but not shown on snapshot list.
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Re: CloudStack 4.1 installation failed

[David Nalley]

What's in /var/log/cloudstack/management/catalina.out?

--David

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Froyo Yao froyo@citrix.com wrote:
 Hi Gurus,

 I'm a new guy for CS, and I have successfully installed CloudStack long time 
 ago.
 Recently I follow the latest 4.1.0 installation guide, nothing error, but 
 can't see the management UI at last.
 http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.0/html/Installation_Guide/management-server-install-flow.html

 So I'm not sure, if I missing something or the guide missing something, 
 please help me out.

 ENVIRONMENT:
 Centos 6.3 64 bit.
 XS 6.1

 My Steps:
 1. Minimum installed centos 6.3 64bit.
 2. Setup the RPM package repository, and the 4.1.0 installation guide is 
 point to http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/rhel/4.0/, is this correct? Or should 
 be 4.1?
 3. Verify hostname --fqdn
 4. ping www.cloudstack.org
 5. yum install ntp
 6. yum install cloud-client
 7. download vhd-util. if I point the RPM package repository to 4.1, the I 
 can't find the path /usr/lib64/cloud/common/scripts/vm/hypervisor/xenserver
 8. yum install mysql-server and follow the guide to modify the /etc/my.conf
 9. service mysqld start
 10. run mysql_secure_installation to set the dataase root password.
 11. set the selinux to permissive mode.
 12. cloudstack-setup-databases cloud:dbpassword@localhost 
 --deploy-as=root:password and the optional params are left blank to use the 
 default setting. And I see successful result.
 13. cloudstack-setup-management, and see the setup is done successfully.
 14. follow the guide to setup the NFS share, and using XS to confirm the 
 setup is correct. I use the management server as the NFS server.
 15. confirm the iptables setting is correct for NFS.
 16. setup rpcbind and nfs service auto start  when server boot.
 17. deploy the System VM template.
 18. try log in to the UI at http://my_management_server_ip:8080/client

 I can't see any page. And after check the service, I find tomcat haven't 
 start yet, if I manually start it, still can't see the UI.

 So I guess may be the official installation guide miss some important part?

 Thanks,
 Froyo

Re: Cloudstack 4.1

[David Nalley]

How does it fail? Can we seen any output from the failure.

--David

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Jerry Simmons
jerry.simm...@nfinausa.com wrote:
 Have just installed CentOS 6.4 followed by Apache-CloudStack 4.1 up to
 cloudstack-setup-databases which fails.

 Have meticulously followed install guide. Suggestions?



 Thanks,



 Jerry Simmons

 nfina Technologies Inc.

 820 University Blvd. suite 4E

 Mobile, Al. 36609

 Tel: (251) 243-0043 ext:1006

 Fax: (251) 316-3884

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Re: 4.1 install docs

[David Nalley]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Travis Graham t...@tgraham.us wrote:
 With the state of the 4.1 install docs looking pretty much like the 4.0.2 
 instructions, does that mean to get a clean initial install of 4.1 up and 
 running I need to install 4.0.2 and then follow the 4.1 upgrade docs?

 I've tried, initially, to use the 4.1 repos to get things going, but there's 
 no cloud-client equivalent in the repo, so I'm not sure how to get the 
 management server up and working.

 I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.2 for all things and the precise 4.1 repo.

 Not having installed 4.0.2 first, the vhd-util step is also not correct due 
 to the path, but I would assume that's something that gets created when 
 installing cloud-client.

 I know there's been a bug/ticket filed for a Quick Install doc for 4.2, but 
 in the meantime what are we supposed to do?

 Thanks,
 Travis

So for RPMs cloud-* would still work, but not debs (IIRC, there's no
concept of 'Provides' unlike in RPM.)

apt-get install cloudstack-management would install the management server.

/me goes to make sure install docs are a hackfest topic for this weekend.

--David

Re: Cloudstack 4.1 MySQL install issue

[David Nalley]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Ron Wheeler
rwhee...@artifact-software.com wrote:
 On 19/06/2013 2:11 PM, Dean Kamali wrote:

 I have seen number of issues with documentation , specially for KVM
 deployment.

 I managed to figure them out quickly without help from anyone.

 But maybe it will become an issue for other admins

 We all have to figure it out but

  'You never get a second chance to make a
 first impression'

 And if your first impression is that the package is carelessly packaged,
 full of bugs and hard to install, you may decide that other cloud management
 systems are better even though if you persisted with the installation, you
 might get a great setup.


 There is really no excuse for documentation that is wrong.
 However, we do need to take a minute when we find an error or an incomplete
 description, to report it so that it gets fixed.
 If you think that you have found the right answer, add it to the description
 of the bug so that it is easier to fix.



Yes, PLEASE file bugs.

--David

Re: cloudstack 4.1 vmware vsphere 5.1 works?

[David Nalley]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Jose Merchan jmerc...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi

 Sorry, we are confused

 DEB packages don't contain non-oss components?

 and RPM packages for RHEL contain non-oss components?

 thanks


I don't know about the DEB packages, as I didn't build them.
I can speak authoritatively about the RPM packages as I did build them.

--David

Re: cloudstack 4.1 vmware vsphere 5.1 works?

[David Nalley]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Tamas Monos tam...@veber.co.uk wrote:
 Hi,

 I have upgraded from CS 3.0.2 - to 4.1.
 The only thing I did was yum update cloud-* and it works with vmware off the 
 shelf.
 Would that be because 3.0.2 had the vmware libs back then and the new 
 packages getting installed are not removing them I can't tell.
 It just works with 5.1 for me by default.
 I have always used only vmware with CS from the beginning.

 Should I worry/update those vmware libraries on the updated CS 4.1?


No - the RPMs in Widos repo are built with VMware and other non-ASL
compatible bits compiled in.

--David

Re: ubuntu 12.4 kvm issue CS 4.1 libvirt complaint

[David Nalley]

What version of libvirt were you running?

--David

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Philippe Van Hecke
philippe.vanhe...@belnet.be wrote:
 Resolved the issue upgrading libvirt package
 to the following ppa

 ppa:pfak/backports

 https://launchpad.net/~pfak/+archive/backports

 On 05/06/13 10:59, Philippe Van Hecke wrote:
 Hi,
 I upgraded our test environemen(4.0.2) to 4.1

 and we have the following issue with libvirtd

  virDomainTimerDefParseXML:4630 : internal error unknown timer name
 'kvmclock'

 when new system vm is created.

 any hint ?

 Regards

 Philippe.

Re: ubuntu 12.4 kvm issue CS 4.1 libvirt complaint

[David Nalley]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Philippe Van Hecke
philippe.vanhe...@belnet.be wrote:
 On Ubuntu 12.04 official package is version 0.98
 after upgrade we run 1.0.2 with this ppa

 Regards

 Philippe.


Did it just complain, or did it fail to start the sysvms?

--David

Re: ubuntu 12.4 kvm issue CS 4.1 libvirt complaint

[David Nalley]

Philippe:

Can you file a bug for this?
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK

--David

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Philippe Van Hecke
philippe.vanhe...@belnet.be wrote:
 It refuse to start the system vm.

 Philippe.


 On 05/06/13 16:15, David Nalley wrote:
 On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Philippe Van Hecke
 philippe.vanhe...@belnet.be wrote:
 On Ubuntu 12.04 official package is version 0.98
 after upgrade we run 1.0.2 with this ppa

 Regards

 Philippe.


 Did it just complain, or did it fail to start the sysvms?

 --David

Re: 4.1 features

[David Nalley]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Jake G. dj_dark_jungl...@yahoo.com wrote:
 I successfully upgraded to 4.1 via the repo works great, but looks like the 
 upgrade guide has some errors.

 cloudstack-management is the new service name I believe for centOS.


Please file bugs for the doc problems.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK

--David

Re: Non-OSS Package: Could not find corresponding resource manager for VMware

[David Nalley]

1. No
2. Scores of folks report success in using ACS 4.0.2 built with nonoss
to manage VMware. (are you using the prebuilt rpms hosted at
http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/rhel/4.0/ ??)

--David

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Livio Lv sandiwater1...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi all:
 1.Does Cloudstack can manange RHEV KVM?
 2.Why Cloudstack 4.02 can not manage VMWare hosts which been intalled from
 a non-oss building RPM package? I have build a non-oss RPM package with
 Cloudstack 4.02 version code following the introduction(
 https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/building.html) successfully, But I
 can't add a VMWare host while creating a new zone. It's UI info showsCould
 not find corresponding resource manager for VMware. There are no warning
 or error logs in server's log.
  Thanks in advance.

Re: unable to add host

[David Nalley]

How about we start with what platform and what version of CloudStack.

Also - your agent.log timestamp and management server log timestamps
have a 30 minute skew, and the management server logs are remotely
related to adding an agent - can we see the actual time period that
you tried to add a host - preferably several hundred lines -
apaste.info that and share a link.

--David

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Er Krishna erkris...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am not able to add host. Pls help me to debug this.

 My host machine agent.log is:
 2016-11-02 18:46:56,633 INFO  [utils.nio.NioClient] (Agent-Selector:null)
 Connecting to localhost:8250
 2016-11-02 18:46:56,633 ERROR [utils.nio.NioConnection]
 (Agent-Selector:null) Unable to connect to remote
 2016-11-02 18:46:56,732 INFO  [cloud.agent.Agent]
 (AgentShutdownThread:null) Stopping the agent: Reason = sig.kill


 Management server log is :

 2013-06-04 17:18:14,118 DEBUG
 [storage.secondary.SecondaryStorageManagerImpl] (secstorage-1:null) Zone 2
 is not ready to launch secondary storage VM yet
 2013-06-04 17:18:14,157 DEBUG [cloud.consoleproxy.ConsoleProxyManagerImpl]
 (consoleproxy-1:null) Skip capacity scan due to there is no Primary Storage
 UPintenance mode
 2013-06-04 17:18:14,545 DEBUG [cloud.alert.AlertManagerImpl]
 (CapacityChecker:null) Running Capacity Checker ...
 2013-06-04 17:18:14,545 DEBUG [cloud.alert.AlertManagerImpl]
 (CapacityChecker:null) recalculating system capacity
 2013-06-04 17:18:14,545 DEBUG [cloud.alert.AlertManagerImpl]
 (CapacityChecker:null) Executing cpu/ram capacity update
 2013-06-04 17:18:14,547 DEBUG [cloud.alert.AlertManagerImpl]
 (CapacityChecker:null) Done executing cpu/ram capacity update



 Krishna

Re: Best method to instal CS4.x

[David Nalley]

No.
On May 31, 2013 1:54 PM, Jake G. dj_dark_jungl...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Hi all,

 I currently have CS 4.0 running on centos 6.3 and vcenter 5.1u1. Works
 perfect. I used the repository method of installation.

 My question, is it better to have installed from source instead?

 Thanks!

Re: puppet integartion

[David Nalley]

Yeah what is in master isn't yet perfect. Checkout the dev branch,
which includes lots of new goodness, but needs some eyes for testing.

--David

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Oliver Leach
oliver.le...@tatacommunications.com wrote:
 That is great, looks like it needs some more work but is a good start. I 
 didn't know that existed - thanks David..

 Oliver
 --

 -Original Message-
 From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us]
 Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 5:55 AM
 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
 Subject: Re: puppet integartion

 On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Oliver Leach 
 oliver.le...@tatacommunications.com wrote:
 1.Can you tell me how the cloudstack and puppet communicate with each other.

 They don't - Cloudstack is an orchestration tool used to deploy 
 infrastructure and Puppet is a configuration management tool. The work in 
 tandem nicely together. You could look at the chef cloudstack-knife plugin 
 https://github.com/CloudStack-extras/knife-cloudstack - not sure there is 
 something similar for Puppet. Let me know if you find something!


 Oliver, et al:

 Take a look at some of the work that Dan Bode has done on the puppet 
 resources for CloudStack:

 https://github.com/bodepd/cloudstack_resources

 You can then specify instances like:

 cloudstack_instance { 'foo2':
   ensure = present,
   flavor = 'Small Instance',
   zone   = 'FMT-ACS-001',
   image  = 'CentOS 5.6(64-bit) no GUI (XenServer)',
   network= 'puppetlabs-network',
   group  = 'foo2',
 }

 Or even specify multiple instances as a class, or just like in knife - use 
 the interactive tools to provision nodes.

 --David

Re: puppet integartion

[David Nalley]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Oliver Leach
oliver.le...@tatacommunications.com wrote:
 1.Can you tell me how the cloudstack and puppet communicate with each other.

 They don't - Cloudstack is an orchestration tool used to deploy 
 infrastructure and Puppet is a configuration management tool. The work in 
 tandem nicely together. You could look at the chef cloudstack-knife plugin 
 https://github.com/CloudStack-extras/knife-cloudstack - not sure there is 
 something similar for Puppet. Let me know if you find something!


Oliver, et al:

Take a look at some of the work that Dan Bode has done on the puppet
resources for CloudStack:

https://github.com/bodepd/cloudstack_resources

You can then specify instances like:

cloudstack_instance { 'foo2':
  ensure = present,
  flavor = 'Small Instance',
  zone   = 'FMT-ACS-001',
  image  = 'CentOS 5.6(64-bit) no GUI (XenServer)',
  network= 'puppetlabs-network',
  group  = 'foo2',
}

Or even specify multiple instances as a class, or just like in knife -
use the interactive tools to provision nodes.

--David

Re: Building RPMs

[David Nalley]

Which version?


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:22 AM,  josee...@farmaenlace.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I have a trouble at building RPMs when running the command mvn -P deps, it
 returns the following:

 root@...:/var/www/cloudstack/repo/binary# mvn -P deps
 [INFO] Scanning for projects...
 [INFO]
 
 [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
 [INFO]
 
 [INFO] Total time: 0.255s
 [INFO] Finished at: Fri May 17 09:12:15 ECT 2013
 [INFO] Final Memory: 2M/59M
 [INFO]
 
 [WARNING] The requested profile deps could not be activated because it
 does not exist.
 [ERROR] No goals have been specified for this build. You must specify a
 valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the format plugin-prefix:goal or
 plugin-group-id:plugin-artifact-id[:plugin-version]:goal.
 Available lifecycle phases are: validate, initialize, generate-sources,
 process-sources, generate-resources, process-resources, compile,
 process-classes, generate-test-sources, process-test-sources,
 generate-test-resources, process-test-resources, test-compile,
 process-test-classes, test, prepare-package, package,
 pre-integration-test, integration-test, post-integration-test, verify,
 install, deploy, pre-clean, clean, post-clean, pre-site, site, post-site,
 site-deploy. - [Help 1]
 [ERROR]
 [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the
 -e switch.
 [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
 [ERROR]
 [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions,
 please read the following articles:
 [ERROR] [Help 1]
 http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/NoGoalSpecifiedException

 I need help please...


 
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Re: CCC13 proposal

[David Nalley]

Please submit that.

--David

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Musayev, Ilya imusa...@webmd.net wrote:
 I'm thinking if anyone will find it helpful if I we have a talk on how to 
 backport features and customize ACS.

Re: Building RPMs

[David Nalley]

Why are you trying to build RPMs on Ubuntu?

Do you really need to build RPMs or can you just consume the prebuilt
RPMs from http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/rhel/4.0/

--David

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:18 PM, José Egas López
josee...@farmaenlace.com wrote:
 Does anyone knows how to fix the error shown below?
 I'm working with CS 4.0.0 on UBU 12.04.1


 El 17/05/2013 9:23, David Nalley escribió:

 Which version?



 On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:22 AM,  josee...@farmaenlace.com wrote:

 Hi,

 I have a trouble at building RPMs when running the command mvn -P deps,
 it
 returns the following:

 root@...:/var/www/cloudstack/repo/binary# mvn -P deps
 [INFO] Scanning for projects...
 [INFO]
 
 [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
 [INFO]
 
 [INFO] Total time: 0.255s
 [INFO] Finished at: Fri May 17 09:12:15 ECT 2013
 [INFO] Final Memory: 2M/59M
 [INFO]
 
 [WARNING] The requested profile deps could not be activated because it
 does not exist.
 [ERROR] No goals have been specified for this build. You must specify a
 valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the format plugin-prefix:goal or
 plugin-group-id:plugin-artifact-id[:plugin-version]:goal.
 Available lifecycle phases are: validate, initialize, generate-sources,
 process-sources, generate-resources, process-resources, compile,
 process-classes, generate-test-sources, process-test-sources,
 generate-test-resources, process-test-resources, test-compile,
 process-test-classes, test, prepare-package, package,
 pre-integration-test, integration-test, post-integration-test, verify,
 install, deploy, pre-clean, clean, post-clean, pre-site, site, post-site,
 site-deploy. - [Help 1]
 [ERROR]
 [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the
 -e switch.
 [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
 [ERROR]
 [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions,
 please read the following articles:
 [ERROR] [Help 1]
 http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/NoGoalSpecifiedException

 I need help please...


 
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Re: meta-data missing on vRouter

[David Nalley]

You are a committer - commit them :)

--David

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Musayev, Ilya imusa...@webmd.net wrote:
 I will resubmit the fixes yet again. :)

 -Original Message-
 From: Musayev, Ilya [mailto:imusa...@webmd.net]
 Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:08 PM
 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
 Subject: RE: meta-data missing on vRouter

 Check the .htaccess file in /var/www/html/latest on the router VM. If this is
 cloud-init/boto related, I've posted a fix - but apache review board crashed
 on me 2'ce.

 Also, I've posted fixes in my private github repo, perhaps you can apply them
 and see if it helps.

 https://github.com/serverchief/cloudsand/commits/
 Both commits for Apr 17, 2013

  -Original Message-
  From: Livio Lv [mailto:sandiwater1...@gmail.com]
  Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:57 AM
  To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
  Subject: meta-data missing on vRouter
 
  Hi all:
 
  I am trying to get the metadata using curl
  http://virtual_router_ip/latest/local-ipv4 from the instance
  provisioned in cloudstack following the instruction of admin
  guide(20.3 User data and meta data section). I get a 404 error. When I
  check virtual_router_ip under /var/www/html/latest, I do not see any
  file or directory in it. How can i mannage it?
 
  Thanks in advance.

Re: create instance from ubuntu 12.04 and customize VM hostname?

[David Nalley]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:44 PM, William Jiang
william.ji...@manwin.com wrote:
 Hi Guys,
 I need create instance from Ubuntu 12.04 template and customize the hostname 
 with our company domain in the format of vmname.doamin.com. I tried API 
 deployVirtualMachine and  updateVirtualMachine, but only displayed name 
 in cloudstack UI can be changed, nor is the instance hostname.

 Any idea or suggestions about it?
 Great Thanks,
 William


Hi William:

So there are two parts to this:

1. If you set the instance name on deploy - it should be picked up and
set the hostname (eg. vmname above) by the DHCP client.

2. If you set the 'network domain' for the account, it should populate
the 'domain.com' portion of the name, again by the DHCP client.

Hope this helps.

--David

Re: Problem creating VMware cluster after building 4.0.2 from source - Found word(s) list error in the Text body

[David Nalley]

Stanley:

Also - make sure you have adjusted debian control files to include the
nonoss jars - otherwise even if it builds successfully, it won't work
when deployed because the jars won't be present.

--David

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Vijayendra Bhamidipati
vijayendra.bhamidip...@citrix.com wrote:
 Hi Stanley,

 To build nonoss from source, please try the instructions given in this link 
 to build the nonoss components - 
 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/How+to+build+on+master+branch

 You need to just take care to ensure that you extract the vim* jar files (for 
 vmware's vi sdk) after you download the websdk 510 file, and copy them over 
 to your deps directory.

 Typically, for non-oss, this is what you will need to do:

 find / | grep -I systemvm.iso; rm all the files found (you needn't do this 
 everytime - I do this whenever I deploy a fresh cloudstack testbed).
 cd deps;
 wget and rename all jar files as directed; download the vi sdk jar files, and 
 extract the jars from them; rename as directed;
 ./install-non-oss.sh

 cd ../
 mvn clean; mvn install -P systemvm -Dnonoss -DskipTests; mvn install -Dnonoss 
 -DskipTests
 If you have a mysql root password set, cp utils/conf/db.properties 
 utils/conf/db.properties.override; edit db.properties.override to set 
 db.root.password=your_mysql_root_password
 mvn -e -P developer -pl developer -Ddeploydb;
 mvn -pl :cloud-client-ui jetty:run -Dnonoss


 The -DskipTests should not be used if you have edited any part of the code, 
 for it skips running mockito tests.

 Regards,
 Vijay


 -Original Message-
 From: Stanley Kaytovich [mailto:stanl...@qwertyc.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 8:03 AM
 To: aemne...@gmail.com; Kelven Yang; Vijayendra Bhamidipati
 Cc: users@cloudstack.apache.org
 Subject: RE: Problem creating VMware cluster after building 4.0.2 from source 
 - Found word(s) list error in the Text body

 Ahmad,

 If not from source, how else can I install with nonoss? Seems like we've 
 tried everything we could find, including a Jenkins package, which gave us 
 different errors.

 As of right now, we are suspecting that something is wrong during the build 
 process since we are getting the same results every time. We will try using 
 ant instead of mvn3.

 From: Ahmad Emneina [mailto:aemne...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 10:58 AM
 To: Stanley Kaytovich; Kelven Yang; vijayendra.bhamidip...@citrix.com
 Cc: users@cloudstack.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Problem creating VMware cluster after building 4.0.2 from source

 Sounds good, I havent built and deployed from source in a very long time, so 
 i wont be much help... but I know who has. Looping in Vijay and Kelven.

 On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Stanley Kaytovich 
 stanl...@qwertyc.commailto:stanl...@qwertyc.com wrote:
 Ahmad,

 Thank you. I sent a copy to the dev list as well. In the meantime, trying to 
 perform the install on Debian following the same article and see if we get 
 the same results.


 -Original Message-
 From: Ahmad Emneina [mailto:aemne...@gmail.commailto:aemne...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 5:36 PM
 To: Cloudstack users mailing list
 Subject: Re: Problem creating VMware cluster after building 4.0.2 from source

 Hey Stanley, you might want to ping the dev list for this as well. I'm sure 
 people are more familiar with building cloudstack on that ml.


 On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Stanley Kaytovich 
 stanl...@qwertyc.commailto:stanl...@qwertyc.comwrote:

 Hello,

 I followed the documentation on
 http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.0.2/html/I
 nstallation_Guide/index.html, and have tried this several times with
 no luck.

 Package: 4.0.2
 OS: Ubuntu 12.04

 Below are the steps I took to perform the build as outlined in the
 above
 article:

 Manually downloaded VMware-*.jar files into deps folder
 deps/install-non-oss.sh mvn -P deps -Dnonoss (fails looking for
 vmware-base) cd ../vmware-base mvn install (completes) mvn -P deps
 -Dnonoss (completes) mvn install -Dnonoss (completes) build packages
 and install debs cloudstack UI works, but we cannot add the VMware
 cluster. We receive an error Could not find corresponding resource
 manager for VMware
 Manually moved all the vmware-*.jar files into WEB-INF\lib checked
 components.xml and there were no references to VMWare nonoss added
 VMWare nonoss parameters manually  (from:
 http://markmail.org/message/5eqasgpjxy2oqsoc#query:+page:1+mid:dvf3aqb
 syl4kphrm+state:resultsand also referenced
 https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/building.data/4.0-nonoss.patch )
 Now can't start cloud-management with the
 com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException: Unable to find class:
 com.cloud.hypervisor.vmware.VmwareServerDiscoverer

 Additional info:
 Once the lines added into components.xml are commented out, the
 service starts but we are back to the original error Could not find
 corresponding resource manager for VMware

 Any guidance on this is much 

Re: vcenter 5.1 support

[David Nalley]

Jake, can you make sure and file a bug for that?

--David

On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Jake G. wrote:

 Just wondering if CS 4.0.1 or 4.0.2 will support vcenter and esxi 5.1 in
 the near future?

 I have a perfectly running CS 4.0 environment on vcenter/esxi 5.1 but
 upgrading to 4.0.1 kills my connecting to vcenter and the hosts.

 Yum update does not have the packages for 4.0.2 as well.

 Thanks !

Re: Domains/Accounts/Users/Projects...

[David Nalley]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Kirk Jantzer kirk.jant...@gmail.com wrote:
 Can someone break down the accounts and users section of CS for me? My
 company will be using CS internally, on one windows domain. I have LDAP
 enabled currently, and have created a domain in CS that has our network
 domain. I have added accounts under that domain that match users on my
 team. I notice that each account has a user that is associated with it of
 the same name, but also has the ability to add users under that account. Is
 this the right way to go, or should I be doing things differently? Also, in
 regards to CS usage within our company - I would like to be able to give
 logins to other teams - should that be done through accounts or projects
 (this is mostly for limiting how many instances they can deploy).

So generally you want accounts at the lowest level at which you want
to track usage.
Projects are invaluable, and really how you should hand out access to
other groups. At present all accounts/users that are part of a project
need to be in the same domain - so keep that in mind from a
Domain/projects perspective.

--David

Re: native networking or sdn

[David Nalley]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:08 PM, John Cabs lito...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm new on cloudstack and I'm just curiouse about SDN's. What is the native 
 or built-in virtual network used by cloudstack? i know that it can be plugged 
 in with 3rd party (like nicira) but what is the built-in networking stack 
 used? For openstack they use quantum right...how about cloudstack?

 Thanks.

Hi John:

So there isn't really a default.

In the old days we used to define it as 'basic' or 'advanced'
networking. I think those were misnomers. Now we talk about Isolation
types:

Some of these simply don't work on certain hypervisors.

As of 4.0

* Basic Networking - AKA Security Groups - uses a flat-layer-2 network
and has the hypervisor's bridge perform layer-3 isolation. CloudStack
takes the responsibility of orchestrating these bridges to ensure
their state is correct. This gives you a lot more scalability than
VLANs, and is less demanding on networking hardware itself, but it
also means that constructs like VLANs aren't really applicable, and
you lose broadcast traffic, etc.

* Advanced Networking - AKA VLANs Isolation - uses a pool of VLANs and
dynamically assigns them to guest networks as they are provisioned.
CloudStack uses a virtual networking appliance based on Linux to
provide an account-dedicated virtual routing device that provides
services like NAT/Port forwarding LoadBalancing, routing, etc. (the
appliance isn't directly configurable by the user, they have to do all
of it via CloudStack)

* There's also completely flat Layer-2 networking with no isolation.
(Essentially basic networking sans the security groups)

* Direct Netwoking (again horrendous naming IMO) - This is where you
had existing network elements that CloudStack wasn't going to control,
but merely consume from. There's also another extension of this where
CloudStack controls physical networking elements rather than
virtualized devices in an 'advanced network' using devices like
Juniper SRX and F5 BigIP Load Balancers.

* GRE Tunnels via OVS - This was really the first foray into SDN - and
like Security groups, CloudStack is orchestrating the tunnel
creation/definition on each hypervisor host.

* STT Isolation with Nicira NVP - Hugo wrote the Layer 2 Nicira NVP
capabilities and it first appeared in CloudStack 4.0.0. CloudStack 4.1
has Layer 3 support for NVP.

In upcoming versions (4.1 and 4.2) there's already support for:

Using Security Groups within VLANS.

BigSwitch (which IIRC will allow you to use Floodlight as your
controller (I think they said the compatible version of Floodlight
would be released by 4.1), or the proprietary BigSwitch controller.

Midokura Midonet (though I sadly haven't kept up with implementation
details at all here.)

Broadcom Load Balancers (in addition to F5 and NetScaler which are
already supported)


I wrote all of that, but most folks typically go with either Basic or
Advanced depending on the gear on hand and how scalable they need to
make it. Most enterprise shops that I have interacted with use VLANs
for isolation. I tend to think of basic as being simpler to setup and
configure - but that assumes you can wrap your head around Layer3
isolation easily. Of course you can 'mix and match' - Networks types
are set at the zone level - so I've seen folks with multiple zones in
a single datacenter to use different types of networking. I'm glossing
over and simplifying a lot of the choices here, because really it's
about what you need to do, rather than what some arbitrary default is
set as.

--David

Re: Template Creation / Network Fails

[David Nalley]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Milamber milam...@apache.org wrote:

 Hello,

 Seems it's a new address MAC in the VM (create from template).

 On VM, in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-**persistent-net.rules, remove the line
 with NAME=eth0 at end,
 and modify the line with NAME=eth1 by NAME=eth0 (eth1-eth0)

 Restart VM.

 I don't know other more 'sexy' way to do this.

 Milamber


There isn't.
Thankfully udev should be gone in RHEL7

--David

Re: 4.0.1 Installation on CentOS 6.4 Questions

[David Nalley]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:20 PM, David Ortiz dpor...@outlook.com wrote:
 Alex,
   I was trying to do the same thing, and ended up having to downgrade the 
 OS to CentOS 6.3 to add a host to Cloudstack.  I did notice when I was trying 
 to investigate that there is a JIRA ticket open to add CentOS 6.4 support for 
 installation at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1642.  From 
 the look of things it is not being added until future releases though.  I 
 also had the same issue with following the network setup and no longer having 
 internet access, but was able to do a basic network installation just leaving 
 it as a flat network without configuring the vlans.
 Hope this helps, David Ortiz


Alex, David:

This should be fixed in 4.0.2, which is imminent.
Hiraoki-san fixed this well and if you really want 4.0.1 on EL6.4,
look at his patch to utilities.py, it should be easy to fix even in
4.0.1 on your installed system.

https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cloudstack.git;a=blobdiff;f=python/lib/cloudutils/utilities.py;h=b7c2a82dcbec8e0ad134bd94d8d8c958f2dd71a4;hp=df09099a07fdd346d14d3835fc2aaa8b9450e34f;hb=c412a7a;hpb=c0d2c1b958e98460ec1fea7eb378d4ca4f35a052

--David

Re: How do I join the site?

[David Nalley]

Just send an email that contains your question to users@cloudstack.apache.org

Even better, subscribe by send an email to users-subscr...@cloudstack.apache.org

--David

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Re: CloudStack with Xen and vShere

[David Nalley]

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:31 AM, paul snom proemail0...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi;

 I'm evaluating CloudStack, I have a couple of questions I hope someone
 can clarify for me:
 Q 1: Is CloudStack compatible with Xen Hypervisor (xen.org)?  the
 installation manual refers to Citrix XenServer but not Xen as far as I
 could see.


CloudStack uses XAPI to interact with Xen - so technically Xen.org
will work provided you have XAPI in place. In practice this means
XenServer, XCP, or Xen + XAPI on Debian/Ubuntu.


 Q 2: to continue using my vSphere hosts do I need to keep vCenter?


Yes - CloudStack interacts with the vCenter API, not directly with
vSphere hosts.

--David

Re: Can't add VMWare 5.0 cluster to 4.0.1

[David Nalley]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Zojonc, Josh
josh.zoj...@oregonstate.edu wrote:
 I'm using the source from 
 apache-cloudstack-4.0.1-incubating-src.tar.bz2http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/cloudstack/releases/4.0.1-incubating/apache-cloudstack-4.0.1-incubating-src.tar.bz2
  and am unable to add a small (3 machine) test cluster to my zone.  I've 
 tried following the instructions on various sites on the bottom of this email.

 I've copied the vmware-vim.jar, vmware-vim25.jar and vmware-apputils.jar into 
 the deps directory.
 I run `mvn -Dnonoss -P deps` and get this back in the output [INFO] Apache 
 CloudStack Plugin - Hypervisor VMware ...… SKIPPED
 Running `mvn -P vmware install` and the output has [INFO] Apache CloudStack 
 Plugin - Hypervisor VMware ...… SUCCESS
 I then run `mvn clean install –Dnonoss` and Vmware gets skipped again

 I imagine I'm missing something really simple and if someone could point me 
 the correct direction I'd be very grateful.

 Thanks,
 Josh


Hi Josh:

Did you run this step?
install-non-oss.sh from within the deps directory?
Are you installing all of the nonoss deps?

--David