Hi Benjamin,
It has been several years since I tried installing on VBox, and not all the
instructions make sense to me any longer, but here is what little I had
documented from my install:
Note: The node 'vh01' below is put for the computer that you are running
VBox on (desktop, laptop, etc.)
Add your nodes so that they can work with the Virtual Box plugin.
nodeadd node1 groups=testgrp,vboxgrp vm.host=vh01
Followed by:
chtab node=vboxgrp nodehm.mgt=vbox nodehm.power=vbox
That tells the nodehm table what settings to run for the nodes in the
vboxgrp group so that they can properly run as VM nodes in VirtualBox.
Then add the host computer vh01 as a node (your port number may be
different):
nodeadd vh01 groups=websrv websrv.port=18083 websrv.username=test
websrv.password=test
chtab node=vh01 hosts.ip=IP of vh01 hosts.comments=“The host running
VBox”
Manually set the MAC addresses in the mac table.
Finally you must launch the VirtualBox webservice on the physical host
machine.
You may first want to execute (I don't remember why I made this note, or
what problem it solves):
VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null
Then when you are prepared to launch the webservices run in a separate
shell (it must remain open running) or in the backgroud: vboxwebsrv
Final note to resolve an issue with a VM's name as shown in VirtualBox and
the hostname of the xCAT node being named the same thing (which you would
think wouldn't be a problem):
“Sometimes the VirtualBox machine name can not equal the xCAT node name,
especially in test cases that might occur. There is a feature for this
situation: add somewhere in the comment field of the vm table a schema like
vmname:NAME! and replace NAME by the vm name on the VirtualBox host
system. You may insert other comments before and after that schema. For
example the xCAT node vm03 should point to the virtual machine
machine03 on the VirtualBox host vh01.”
(This “trick” was absolutely necessary for me - else the rpower command
would not work)
Example config in vm table: node1,vh01,,,vmname:xCat_Node1!,
I hope maybe that helps. That's all I've got. :-)
Best regards,
Josh Nielsen
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Benjamin LIPERE
benjamin.lipere...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello.
I am a newbie with XCAT.
I am a little lost on the installation.
Can some one help me to start on XCAT with a VirtualBox Cluster, please,
step by step, and by e-mail of course ??
I may have a twin available, but I am not sure it will work directly.
Thanks by advance.
Best Regards.
Benjamin.
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