[OpenStack-docs] OpenStack Training labs - VirtualBox vs KVM

Pranav Salunke dguitarbite at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 10:57:59 UTC 2015


Hello,

I would also add Arch Linux to the pool.

Regards,
Pranav

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Roger Luethi <rl at patchworkscience.org>
wrote:

> I had a chance to take my chances with CentOS today. Here are my notes,
> starting from a fresh CentOS minimal install (same release as yours):
>
> As root:
> # yum groupinstall "Server with GUI"
> # yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
> # yum install kernel-devel
> # cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
> # wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo
> # yum install VirtualBox-5.0
>
> As regular user:
> $ git clone git://git.openstack.org/openstack/training-labs
> $ cd training-labs/labs/osbash
> $ ./osbash -b cluster
> $ PROVIDER=virtualbox tools/test-once.sh scripts/test/launch_instance.sh
>
> Tests passed. Looks like you just had some bad luck. It seems to work fine
> on CentOS.
>
> Roger
>
> 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.
> >
> > My OS is Centos 7.1, more precisely "CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503
> (Core)".
> > The obstacle is VirtualBox, more precisely the installation of the
> vboxdrv
> > kernel module.
> >
> > Details if you are interested: The vboxdrv module build process fails
> > because the version of the required kernel-devel package is not quite
> > identical to the version of the installed kernel (3.10.0-229.20.1 versus
> > 3.10.0-229). This confuses the build script.
> >
> > yum upgrade didn't change this.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
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