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 < [email protected]> 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. > > -- > LIPERE Benjamin > Le logis de paille > 87270, Chaptelat > FRANCE > 06 26 14 35 20 > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > >
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