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Posted to dev@cloudstack.apache.org by Abhijith Chandrashekar <Ab...@citrix.com> on 2012/11/01 01:52:54 UTC
DevCloud setup documentation
Hi everybody,
I started a week ago with the process of setting up DevCloud on my Macintosh by importing DevCloud.ova onto VirtualBox. First, I took the wrong step of building using ant and then I discovered that the build process had moved on to maven. As I went through this guide - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+devcloud+environment+setup - in trying to setup the CloudStack development environment, I ran into a bunch of errors to which many of you have responded very kindly and promptly. The community seems very well-rooted and very helpful.
Some of the errors I faced were fairly trivial and my own mistakes - once there wasn't enough swap space and at one point I had the wrong version of maven installed. At other times, the errors I faced seemed to be stemming from the lack of sufficient documentation about a particular issue - jetty wasn't installing until I made changes to the pom.xml which I had to figure out on my own, I had to make modifications to db.properties.override in the utils directory before I could resolve the error with denial of access to the database for user 'root'@'localhost'. The link to stackoverflow on the wiki wasn't much help there. I was just wondering if other people have gone through similar issues, in which case, it might make sense to include them in the wiki?
For starters, I think it should be specifically mentioned that one must use maven3 and not any previous versions. I was using maven2 and the last step in starting the mgmt. server did not execute.
How should I go about getting the items reviewed so that they can be added to the wiki?
Thanks,
Abhijith
RE: DevCloud setup documentation
Posted by Abhijith Chandrashekar <Ab...@citrix.com>.
Yes, I was actually going to do that. Later today, I'll try and put up some steps here first just so that the veterans can approve the validity of it first and then I can go ahead and add them.
Thanks,
Abhijith
-----Original Message-----
From: Edison Su [mailto:Edison.su@citrix.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 10:36 AM
To: 'cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org'
Subject: RE: DevCloud setup documentation
Could you help to write it down how to get the new devcloud work on Mac, if there are any special steps?
I don't have enough time to write the document to cover all the situations, so it's up to users/community to improve the document. Sorry for the long journey to get there.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Abhijith Chandrashekar
> [mailto:Abhijith.Chandrashekar@citrix.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:28 PM
> To: 'cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org'
> Subject: RE: DevCloud setup documentation
>
> OK. Thanks for the clarification.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.childers@sungard.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 5:56 PM
> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: DevCloud setup documentation
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Abhijith Chandrashekar
> <Ab...@citrix.com> wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I started a week ago with the process of setting up DevCloud on my
> Macintosh by importing DevCloud.ova onto VirtualBox. First, I took
> the wrong step of building using ant and then I discovered that the
> build process had moved on to maven. As I went through this guide -
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+devc
> loud+environment+setup - in trying to setup the CloudStack development
> environment, I ran into a bunch of errors to which many of you have
> responded very kindly and promptly. The community seems very well-
> rooted and very helpful.
> >
> > Some of the errors I faced were fairly trivial and my own mistakes -
> > once
> there wasn't enough swap space and at one point I had the wrong
> version of maven installed. At other times, the errors I faced seemed
> to be stemming from the lack of sufficient documentation about a
> particular issue - jetty wasn't installing until I made changes to the
> pom.xml which I had to figure out on my own, I had to make
> modifications to db.properties.override in the utils directory before
> I could resolve the error with denial of access to the database for
> user 'root'@'localhost'. The link to stackoverflow on the wiki wasn't
> much help there. I was just wondering if other people have gone
> through similar issues, in which case, it might make sense to include them in the wiki?
> >
> > For starters, I think it should be specifically mentioned that one
> > must use
> maven3 and not any previous versions. I was using maven2 and the last
> step in starting the mgmt. server did not execute.
> >
> > How should I go about getting the items reviewed so that they can be
> added to the wiki?
>
> I think it's fair to say that you should simply add / edit / correct
> liberally. As long as the pages are improving, then there isn't any
> sort of *approval* needed. Make the changes you think need to be
> made. If there is a specific question / concern, raise it on the list
> to see if you can get an answer... then edit away.
>
> -chip
>
> > Thanks,
> > Abhijith
RE: DevCloud setup documentation
Posted by Edison Su <Ed...@citrix.com>.
Could you help to write it down how to get the new devcloud work on Mac, if there are any special steps?
I don't have enough time to write the document to cover all the situations, so it's up to users/community to improve the document. Sorry for the long journey to get there.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Abhijith Chandrashekar [mailto:Abhijith.Chandrashekar@citrix.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:28 PM
> To: 'cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org'
> Subject: RE: DevCloud setup documentation
>
> OK. Thanks for the clarification.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.childers@sungard.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 5:56 PM
> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: DevCloud setup documentation
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Abhijith Chandrashekar
> <Ab...@citrix.com> wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I started a week ago with the process of setting up DevCloud on my
> Macintosh by importing DevCloud.ova onto VirtualBox. First, I took the
> wrong step of building using ant and then I discovered that the build process
> had moved on to maven. As I went through this guide -
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+devc
> loud+environment+setup - in trying to setup the CloudStack development
> environment, I ran into a bunch of errors to which many of you have
> responded very kindly and promptly. The community seems very well-
> rooted and very helpful.
> >
> > Some of the errors I faced were fairly trivial and my own mistakes - once
> there wasn't enough swap space and at one point I had the wrong version of
> maven installed. At other times, the errors I faced seemed to be stemming
> from the lack of sufficient documentation about a particular issue - jetty
> wasn't installing until I made changes to the pom.xml which I had to figure
> out on my own, I had to make modifications to db.properties.override in the
> utils directory before I could resolve the error with denial of access to the
> database for user 'root'@'localhost'. The link to stackoverflow on the wiki
> wasn't much help there. I was just wondering if other people have gone
> through similar issues, in which case, it might make sense to include them in
> the wiki?
> >
> > For starters, I think it should be specifically mentioned that one must use
> maven3 and not any previous versions. I was using maven2 and the last step
> in starting the mgmt. server did not execute.
> >
> > How should I go about getting the items reviewed so that they can be
> added to the wiki?
>
> I think it's fair to say that you should simply add / edit / correct liberally. As
> long as the pages are improving, then there isn't any sort of *approval*
> needed. Make the changes you think need to be made. If there is a specific
> question / concern, raise it on the list to see if you can get an answer... then
> edit away.
>
> -chip
>
> > Thanks,
> > Abhijith
RE: DevCloud setup documentation
Posted by Abhijith Chandrashekar <Ab...@citrix.com>.
OK. Thanks for the clarification.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.childers@sungard.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 5:56 PM
To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: DevCloud setup documentation
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Abhijith Chandrashekar <Ab...@citrix.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I started a week ago with the process of setting up DevCloud on my Macintosh by importing DevCloud.ova onto VirtualBox. First, I took the wrong step of building using ant and then I discovered that the build process had moved on to maven. As I went through this guide - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+devcloud+environment+setup - in trying to setup the CloudStack development environment, I ran into a bunch of errors to which many of you have responded very kindly and promptly. The community seems very well-rooted and very helpful.
>
> Some of the errors I faced were fairly trivial and my own mistakes - once there wasn't enough swap space and at one point I had the wrong version of maven installed. At other times, the errors I faced seemed to be stemming from the lack of sufficient documentation about a particular issue - jetty wasn't installing until I made changes to the pom.xml which I had to figure out on my own, I had to make modifications to db.properties.override in the utils directory before I could resolve the error with denial of access to the database for user 'root'@'localhost'. The link to stackoverflow on the wiki wasn't much help there. I was just wondering if other people have gone through similar issues, in which case, it might make sense to include them in the wiki?
>
> For starters, I think it should be specifically mentioned that one must use maven3 and not any previous versions. I was using maven2 and the last step in starting the mgmt. server did not execute.
>
> How should I go about getting the items reviewed so that they can be added to the wiki?
I think it's fair to say that you should simply add / edit / correct liberally. As long as the pages are improving, then there isn't any sort of *approval* needed. Make the changes you think need to be made. If there is a specific question / concern, raise it on the list to see if you can get an answer... then edit away.
-chip
> Thanks,
> Abhijith
Re: DevCloud setup documentation
Posted by Chip Childers <ch...@sungard.com>.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Abhijith Chandrashekar
<Ab...@citrix.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I started a week ago with the process of setting up DevCloud on my Macintosh by importing DevCloud.ova onto VirtualBox. First, I took the wrong step of building using ant and then I discovered that the build process had moved on to maven. As I went through this guide - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+devcloud+environment+setup - in trying to setup the CloudStack development environment, I ran into a bunch of errors to which many of you have responded very kindly and promptly. The community seems very well-rooted and very helpful.
>
> Some of the errors I faced were fairly trivial and my own mistakes - once there wasn't enough swap space and at one point I had the wrong version of maven installed. At other times, the errors I faced seemed to be stemming from the lack of sufficient documentation about a particular issue - jetty wasn't installing until I made changes to the pom.xml which I had to figure out on my own, I had to make modifications to db.properties.override in the utils directory before I could resolve the error with denial of access to the database for user 'root'@'localhost'. The link to stackoverflow on the wiki wasn't much help there. I was just wondering if other people have gone through similar issues, in which case, it might make sense to include them in the wiki?
>
> For starters, I think it should be specifically mentioned that one must use maven3 and not any previous versions. I was using maven2 and the last step in starting the mgmt. server did not execute.
>
> How should I go about getting the items reviewed so that they can be added to the wiki?
I think it's fair to say that you should simply add / edit / correct
liberally. As long as the pages are improving, then there isn't any
sort of *approval* needed. Make the changes you think need to be
made. If there is a specific question / concern, raise it on the list
to see if you can get an answer... then edit away.
-chip
> Thanks,
> Abhijith