I've tried virtualizing xCAT for testing purposes. To some extent, it works, but the really interesting parts are very hard to virtualize. What tripped me up was UEFI booting and BMC setup/IPMI. Without getting these pieces, all you can test in xCAT is whether the tables are set up correctly. Even when you do get it to work, the virtualized version was different enough from actual hardware to be of limited use.
Also, even when you do get it to work, these things are very hypervisor-specific. I eventually got UEFI-booting to work in libvirt, but then had to switch to VirtualBox due to another project. And I never got to the point where I could have put it into Vagrant. _______________________________________________________________________ Kevin Keane | Systems Architect | University of San Diego ITS | kke...@sandiego.edu Maher Hall, 192 |5998 Alcalá Park | San Diego, CA 92110-2492 | 619.260.6859 *REMEMBER! **No one from IT at USD will ever ask to confirm or supply your password*. These messages are an attempt to steal your username and password. Please do not reply to, click the links within, or open the attachments of these messages. Delete them! On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:38 AM Christopher Walker <c.j.wal...@qmul.ac.uk> wrote: > Is there a Vagrant model of an xCAT cluster? > > If there were, it should be possible to build a test case for: > https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/2633 > > While clearly it doesn't model the hardware, it would allow some sort of > testing of changes. > > Chris > -- > Dr Christopher J. Walker > ITS Research > Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS > > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user >
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