Hello Justin, Welcome.
For the most part the vcl api is currently setup for the backend calls, or a third party app to request a VCL resource, manage users, etc, so it's currently supporting incoming api calls. There might be a better way but my first thought is that a new perl provisioning module could be created to make the api calls to EC2 or some other cloud/cluster to accomplish this. In addition to adding a provisioning module, the vcl database would need to have placeholders for EC2/Eucalyptus computer resources, so it would know what/how many compute nodes are available, etc. Aaron > Hello VCL dev team, > > My name is Justin, and I am currently researching VCL for academic > purposes > and attempting to set up a potential testing environment based on the > tutorial > here<https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/configuring-a-standalone-vmware-vcl-environment.html>. > > I was wondering, is it possible to set up a different back end, such as > Eucalyptus or EC2 using the current web interface? (I noticed one of the > features is "API support for making requests and provisioning resources", > so > maybe the Amazon API can be used?) > Also, I am installing this on Ubuntu 9.10 and apparently I have to > rebuild > the Linux kernel to install VMware... does this seem correct? > > - Justin >
