Open Stack

On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 11:35:43 +0900, Bernd Bausch wrote:
> The promise of the training labs is to install an OpenStack cluster at the
> push of a button. I have finally taken the time to try it out and hit an
> obstacle very early in the process.

Thank you for testing and reporting!

> No doubt the problem can be resolved easily. My point is that VirtualBox may
> be installed easily on Ubuntu (there is a Ubuntu-maintained package), but
> not necessarily on other systems. A push-button installation of the training
> labs on my Centos system is not possible.

On the platforms that we test (Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora), installing
VirtualBox is not too hard, but maybe we should provide instructions. I'll
take a look at CentOS.

> Would it be useful to port the training labs to KVM? Is anybody working on
> this? If the answers are yes and no, respectively, I will give it a try.

We currently have a patch for a KVM backend under review:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/233442/

The first goal for the KVM back-end was to make it useable for Continuous
Integration; feature-wise, it is not yet on par with the VirtualBox backend
(most notably, snapshots are not implemented yet). The KVM backend should
work on Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora.

Roger