The simulator issue should be fixed on 4.2 branch.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 1:56 PM
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Using the ACS simulator for jclouds "live" tests - some
> questions.
> =)
>
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 08:49:52PM +0530, Prasanna Santhanam wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:08:20AM -0700, Andrew Bayer wrote:
> > > - At least one available simulator template (best-case would be
> > > Ubuntu
> > > 10.04 or 12.04) that can be "booted up" out of the box - for
> > > whatever reason (I honestly can't tell, from the brief dive I did
> > > through the code), all the builtin templates come up with
> > > isready=false in the listTemplates output, which makes jclouds think
> > > there are no templates, etc, etc... I thought this is because
> > > they're all in Allocated state, not Ready, but even changing them to
> Ready in the DB didn't do the trick.
> >
> > The guest OS is something that doesn't matter to the simulator.
> > Whatever you ask for will be deployed. One limitation of the simulator
> > is that it keeps CloudStack 'happy' by telling it it's got whatever is
> > requested. So any negative scenarios will be harder to test without a
> > change in the simulator.
> >
> > The templates issue still exists but with cloudmonkey you can register
> > your template and it will come to ready state:
> >
> > cloudmonkey>> register template format=RAW hypervisor=Simulator
> > cloudmonkey>> isfeatured=true ispublic=true name=tiny displaytext=tiny
> > cloudmonkey>> url=http://test.url.com/test.raw
> > cloudmonkey>> ostypeid=bb62589e-e3cd-11e2-ad39-ea6434daa8ba
> > cloudmonkey>> zoneid=55318568-8d4b-412c-8c10-82f47651eb51
>
> I've been using [1], and I keep hitting an issue with finding the template
> prior
> to creating a VM.
>
> What's the simulator trick to convincing the server that the templates are
> "Ready"?
>
> Snipped results:
>
>
> [INFO] --- exec-maven-plugin:1.2.1:exec (integration-test) @ cloud-marvin --
> - ERROR Test Deploy Virtual Machine ... ERROR ERROR ERROR Test to create
> disk offering ... ok Test to update existing disk offering ... ok Test to
> delete
> disk offering ... ok test update configuration setting at zone level scope
> ... ok
> Test guest vlan range dedication ... ok Test to update a physical network and
> extend its vlan ... ERROR ERROR Test to acquire a provisioned public ip
> range ... ok Test to create a portable public ip range ... ok Test public IP
> range
> dedication ... ok Test for create region ... ok ERROR
>
> ==========================================================
> ============
> ERROR: test suite for <class
> 'integration.smoke.test_affinity_groups.TestDeployVmWithAffinityGroup'>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nose/suite.py", line 208, in
> run
> self.setUp()
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nose/suite.py", line 291, in
> setUp
> self.setupContext(ancestor)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nose/suite.py", line 314, in
> setupContext
> try_run(context, names)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nose/util.py", line 469, in
> try_run
> return func()
> File "/home/sg-
> user/cloudstack/test/integration/smoke/test_affinity_groups.py", line 81, in
> setUpClass
> cls.services["ostype"]
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-
> packages/marvin/integration/lib/common.py", line 141, in get_template
> ostypeid)
> Exception: Exception: Failed to find template with OSTypeID: f7691800-e7e9-
> 11e2-8591-02004f97000b
