I would really like to see the system vm be built on the management server after it's deployed. There's several reasons for this.
- As contribution grows, the number of items to be put on the system vm will likely grow. CloudStack is built on the principle that it is a software collection that can be configured by a software distributor where software components can be enabled/disabled so it doesn't make sense that system vms come prepackaged with everyone's software. - Generating the same iso on windows, linux, mac, and also generating agent rpms needs a lot of different effort. When all that's really need is for buildsystemvm.sh to be a dynamic package of components as Chiradeep pointed out and mkisofs. Why put all that effort into getting working on all these other systems? --Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Chiradeep Vittal [mailto:chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:06 AM > To: CloudStack DeveloperList > Subject: Re: proper way to fetch system vms > > Certainly the buildsystemvm.sh script can be replaced by veewee > automation > followed by qemu-img conversion to the desired hypervisor format. > > buildsystemvm.sh originated in pre-vagrant/veewee history and can be > replaced by more modern tools. > The main takeaway from buildsystemvm.sh is the list of packages that are > needed for the systemvm. > That is documented in the packages() function. > > > On 12/19/12 10:40 AM, "Prasanna Santhanam" <t...@apache.org> wrote: > > >On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 01:30:16PM -0500, James Martin wrote: > >> The context of this document is building the devcloud vm that exists > >> in tools/devcloud > >> > >> So I've noticed there are at least 2 documented ways to get the > >> console proxy and ssvm. > >> > >> 1) > >> > >> As document in the original devcloud creation build scripts ( and done > >> in the current puppet scripts) > >> > >> wget > >>http://download.cloud.com/templates/devcloud//defaulttemplates/1/dc > 68eb4c > >>-228c-4a78-84fa-b80ae178fbfd.vhd > >> -P /opt/storage/secondary/template/tmpl/1/1/ > >> wget > >>http://download.cloud.com/templates/devcloud//defaulttemplates/1/te > mplate > >>.properties > >> -P /opt/storage/secondary/template/tmpl/1/1/ > >> wget > >>http://download.cloud.com/templates/devcloud/defaulttemplates/5/ce5 > b212e- > >>215a-3461-94fb-814a635b2215.vhd > >> -P /opt/storage/secondary/template/tmpl/1/5/ > >> wget > >>http://download.cloud.com/templates/devcloud//defaulttemplates/5/te > mplate > >>.properties > >> -P /opt/storage/secondary/template/tmpl/1/5/ > >> > >> > >> 2) As documented in: > >> > >> http://rohityadav.in/logs/devcloud/ : > >> > >> "Preseed the SystemVM templates in /opt/storage/secondary, follow > >> directions from here. Configure NFS server and local storage." > >> > >> here points to this link: > >> > >> > >>http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/docs/en- > US/Apache_CloudStack/4.0.0 > >>-incubating/html/Installation_Guide/management-server-install- > flow.html#p > >>repare-system-vm-template > >> > >> Which says to use: > >> > >> For XenServer: > >> > >> > >>/usr/lib64/cloud/common/scripts/storage/secondary/cloud-install-sys- > tmplt > >> -m /mnt/secondary -u > >> > >>http://download.cloud.com/templates/acton/acton-systemvm- > 02062012.vhd.bz2 > >> -h xenserver -s <optional-management-server-secret-key> -F > >> > >> > >> I've also seen it mentioned that these VMs can be built with maven as > >> well, and it seems to me that should be the best process. If you are > >> building devcloud from source, shouldn't you also be building the > >> console proxy and secondary storage vms? > >> > >> Can we get some consensus on the best way to retrieve these VMs? Or > >> when is the best time to build them versus downloading pre-built ones? > >> > > > >Currently the systemVMs are pre-built and not made into a BYO recipe > >like devcloud. There has been discussion on working in this direction > >but don't think anyone has started work on it yet. > > > >The debian image is right now built using: > >./patches/systemvm/debian/buildsystemvm.sh > > > >Perhaps start from there? > > > >-- > >Prasanna.,
