Hi Andrea, Great news! I looked into the Virtualbox provider as part of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-379 a few months ago but then it still had some problems on Linux.
I'll have a look. Thanks to everyone involved! Cheers, Frank On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Andrea Turli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > quick update on jclouds-virtualbox. > > The provider is still on labs, but after the last improvements, I've > been able to successfully start up to 30 guests on my laptop without > problems. > > I've also tested the jclouds-virtualbox provider with Apache Whirr: > > bin/whirr launch-cluster --config recipes/zookeeper.properties > --private-key-file ~/.ssh/id_rsa_whirr --template > osFamily=UBUNTU,osVersionMatches=12.04 > > where $ cat recipes/zookeeper.properties > > # > # Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more > # contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with > # this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. > # The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 > # (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with > # the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at > # > # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 > # > # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software > # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, > # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. > # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and > # limitations under the License. > # > > # > # Deploy an Apache ZooKeeper cluster > # > whirr.cluster-name=zookeeper > whirr.instance-templates=3 zookeeper > whirr.bootstrap-user=toor:password > > with default ram size for the guests 1024 Mb, and everything seems to > be in good shape. > > I think it is a good result :) > > If you are interested in having more details, feel free to ping me. > > Thanks everyone for great team work particularly > Adrian Cole, David Alves, Mattias Holmqvist, Andrei Savu, Tony > Batchelli, Andrew Bayer and Patrick Debois. > > Ciao, > Andrea > > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Adrian Cole <[email protected]> wrote: >> haha baby steps. >> >> -A >> >> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Andrea Turli <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I'd try using that >>>> in a different package. Ex. a LOT of the code is the same, regardless >>>> of which api is used (ex. image construction, guest additions, etc), >>>> so maybe make a package org.jclouds.virtualbox.xpcom and put things >>>> like a ComputeServiceAdapter that uses xpcom? >>>> >>>> wdyt? >>> >>> >>> I agree with the idea of having a different package: at the moment I'm using >>> a simple eclipse project to test things. >>> Unfortunately even if xpcom seems faster than SOAP and doesn't require a >>> running vbox web server (good) >>> the session reliability is still a problem with xpcom bridge as well. >>> >>> Maybe we could start a brave implementation of a third bridge: native :) >>> >>> wdyt? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "jclouds-dev" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/jclouds-dev?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "jclouds-dev" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/jclouds-dev?hl=en. >> >
