On Jun 9, 2014, at 10:20 PM, Ian Duffy <i...@ianduffy.ie> wrote: > Hi All, > > Started making some fast progress on this. > > I uploaded the xenserver box[1] to vagrant cloud. This means people can > easily get a xenserver VM by executing vagrant init duffy/xenserver && > vagrant up.
great, tested the packer-server and this works nicely. > > I adjusted the configuration on the box to allow for multiple xenserver > boxes to be brought up by one vagrant file. In order to allow this I had to > remove the host-only network configuration from the packaged box into an > external script [2]. It can be used as follows: > > config.vm.define "xenserver" do |xenserver| > xenserver.vm.box = "duffy/xenserver" > > xenserver.vm.provision "shell" do |s| > s.path = "xenserver/reset-network.sh" > s.args = ["eth1", "192.168.56.10", "255.255.255.0"] > end > end > > > I created a skeleton for the chef cookbook [3]. At the moment it include > calls to the MySQL, NFS and IPTables gateway recipes with default > attributes specified for the included devcloud.cfg. Along with this I wrote > a systemvm downloading recipe which reads an array of systemvms from the > cookbooks attributes file and downloads/installed them accordingly. It uses > the -t switch to on the cloud-install-sys-tmplt script to avoid querying > the MySQL db for information. > > I added some brief usage documentation too [4] > After I sorted my own mistakes, this seems to work well. I had issues with the ip forwarding on the mgt server (as I mentioned to you off list), Otherwise it worked fine. NFS setup, template seeding, download of ttylinux and start of VM. I did find the VMs to be a bit slow to start...maybe some configuration issues. The docs in your "rough read me" need a bit of work, but I guess you know that :) And it would be good to get to a point where we can just 'vagrant up' and we get a working setup (1 mgt VM, 1 xenserver VM). While we can run the mgt server on localhost from source, I'd suggest doing recipes to install binaries in the mgt VM, this would be a more user friendly setup. Good work, > > [1] https://github.com/imduffy15/packer-xenserver > [2] > https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/blob/master/MySql_NFS_XenServer/xenserver/reset-network.sh > [3] https://github.com/imduffy15/cookbook_cloudstack > [4] https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/blob/master/README.md
