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Signed-off-by: Gergely Csatari <gergely.csatari@nokia.com>
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OpenStack Upstream Institute Virtual Environment

bit.ly/upstream-institute-vm

Instructions

Using VirtualBox

  1. Set up VirtualBox with Extension Pack
  2. Go to the releases page and download the latest VM image.
  3. Import the ova file (File -> Import appliance...)

    on Windows? look here.)

  4. Start up the VM

Using VMware player

  1. Set up VMware player
  2. Go to the releases page and download the latest VM image.
  3. Open the ova file (File -> Open a Virtual Machine)

    A warning dialog might appear. Click on Retry

  4. Start up the VM

Minimum requirements

  • 5GB of free RAM (so at least 8GB in your laptop)
  • Recent CPU with at least 4 cores
  • 15GB disk space

Getting around in the VM

  1. Explore the environment. The four main software you will be using from the desktop during the training are:

    • Firefox web browser
    • Xfce4-terminal terminal emulator
    • Geany text editor
    • HexChat IRC client

      please make sure that you replace the default user ubuntu upon first start before logging in to Freenode channels.

  2. When stack.sh finished running, you can open your Horizon Dashboard (http://localhost/) or on VirtualBox using the DevStack bookmark

    • Login: demo
    • Password: openstack

  3. Select the demo project

  4. Start a VM. Use a tiny flavor. A CirrOS image is already set up by devstack

  5. Assign a floating IP

  6. Enable SSH and ICMP ports on the security groups

Learn how to set up devstack

These are the steps used to provision the vm:

Using latest devstack

Please do not update your openstack installation during the training. It requires bandwidth.

If you want to keep on using the training VM for devstacking, you should disable offline mode in local.conf. Also reconsider git related settings here.

Screenshots

devstack geany git-hexchat
devstack text editor git and irc

Advanced Topics

This section is mainly for developers of the VM, on the training you won't need this.

Roll your own image

The image can be built using diskimage-builder.

  1. Install prerequisites 
    ./prereqs.sh
    This step needs root/sudo rights to install tools like qemu-img
  2. Activate the python virtual environment 
    . .env/bin/activate
  3. Create disk image with provided convenience script 
    ./create-training-box.sh
  4. The generated image can be found under dist/

License

MIT