On a side note, I've made the modifications required once to run qemu without the kvm modules, as a test. You have do do several things, not just disable the checks (that are there for a reason, to ensure that everything will work). You'd have to disable several checks, and then edit the XML definitions that cloudstack creates when defining virtual machines. After all that, you end up with unbearably slow vms inside a vm. Unless you don't have access to the hypervisor host (in which case this is the only option), it's far better to just enable nested virtualization on the host and use the kvm modules like you would with a real hardware host.
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote: > You only need to run package.sh when you've tested everything and made > sure it's ready. Then you package the final product. For testing, you > can just edit utilities.py in its installed location on the server. > > You can run the agent in a VM if you're using vmware-fusion or KVM, > you just have to enable the support for vmx on the hypervisor so you > can modprobe the kvm modules, and then set the 'nested' flag on the > module configs. If you don't, I believe the agent will fail to start > anyway, as it does 'lsmod| grep kvm' on startup. > > See devcloud-kvm as an example of running the agent in a vm: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/devcloud-kvm > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Abhishek Lahiri <lahiris...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am attempting to make a simple change in the >> cloudstack/dist/rpmbuild/SOURCES/cloudstack-4.2.0-SNAPSHOT/python/lib/cloudutils/utilities.py >> script , so that the cloudstack-setup-agent script does not throw an error >> and exit if it cannot fine /dev/kvm (usage scenario - running cloudstack >> inside a running vm). Anyway the change is trivial , but after I make the >> change I have to run cloudstack/packaging/centos63/package.sh which takes a >> very long time to complete and generate the rpms under >> cloudstack/dist/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64. Is there any way I can speed up this >> process? I just need to generate the >> cloudstack-agent-4.2.0-SNAPSHOT.el6.x86_64.rpm package everytime I make >> some change to the utilities.py script. This will save me a lot of time. >> >> Thanks >> AL
