Installing a cloudstack in a VM for testing

[Samuel Winchenbach <sw...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Is it possible to install a working cloudstack instance in a VM for
testing, using qemu as the hypervisor?  Networking also seems a bit more
complicated.   Any tips would be wonderful!   Right now we are using
OpenStack but I getting very annoyed with it.

Thanks,
Sam

Re: Installing a cloudstack in a VM for testing

[Sebastien Goasguen <ru...@gmail.com>]

On Nov 18, 2013, at 9:26 AM, Samuel Winchenbach <sw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Is it possible to install a working cloudstack instance in a VM for
> testing, using qemu as the hypervisor?  Networking also seems a bit more
> complicated.   Any tips would be wonderful!   Right now we are using
> OpenStack but I getting very annoyed with it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sam

Hi Sam, good to hear you want to take cloudstack for a tour :)

If you want to encapsulate everything (cloudstack management and hypervisor used to spawn VMs) within a VM.

There are different ways to do this:

DevCloud: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/DevCloud

It's pre-packaged and baring a few caveats, you will get CloudStack running quickly. However it's a Xen kernel.

If you are a KVM guy: the easiest way to do this would be to use vmware workstation or fusion to take advantage of hardware virtu. You can then use KVM directly within the VM and setup CloudStack for testing. You can then follow this guide:
http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.1/html/qig/index.html to setup everything on your own. Someone did it the other day in 20 minutes.


-Sebastien