If I'm not mistaken from my limited knowledge of pom, you can set a db.properties.override. If that file is there, it will use this file instead. In there, you should be able to specify a remote mysql server.
--Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Moulliard [mailto:ch0...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 9:30 AM > To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Why do we need mysql server on the dev machine > > Hi, > > When building the project cloudstack-4.1.0-SNAPSHOT > ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+de > vcloud+environment+setup), > I get the following exception : > > mvn -P developer -pl developer -Ddeploydb > > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal > org.codehaus.mojo:sql-maven-plugin:1.5:execute (drop-database) on > project > cloud-developer: Communications link failure [ERROR] [ERROR] The last > packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has > not received any packets from the server. Connection refused [ERROR] > > As utils/conf/db.properties file specifies to use localhost > (db.cloud.host=localhost), does that means that MySQL should also be > installed on the development machine ? > > Regards, > > -- > Charles Moulliard > Apache Committer / Sr. Enterprise Architect (RedHat) Twitter : @cmoulliard | > Blog : http://cmoulliard.blogspot.com
