Re: Much Improved VCL Virtual Appliance (VCL 2.1 unofficial RC) Released
Hi, Thank you for your release. We have setup the environment for your VCL 2.1 Virtual Applicance. How could we know whether the VCL VM provision is OK? I didn't see any imformation about how to load a VM to the Hypervisor and run it. Thanks 2009/4/9 Brian Bouterse bmbou...@ncsu.edu Some other folks in the community are specializing the bare metal installs through some form of integration with xcat 2.1.1. To keep my sanity, I am specializing in virtualization only VCL deployments and functionality. Who in the community is in charge of the bare metal integration moving forward? Best, Brian Brian Bouterse Secure Open Systems Initiative 919.698.8796 On Apr 8, 2009, at 10:31 PM, 杨杰 wrote: Hi, Thank you for your greate help ! According to the email, this release does not support the deployment to the bare metal images. Then how could i make it ? Will you give some direction? Or is there any higher release version recently ? Thanks again ! 2009/4/9 Brian Bouterse bmbou...@ncsu.edu I've finished building the new version of the VCL VM appliance which is ready to deploy virtual machines onto ESX and ESX 3i hypervisors. This VM does not contain xcat and cannot deploy bare metal images or vmware-server images. The announcement is happening on this list because this VM appliance should lower the barrier to working with VCL within this community. Just to be clear, this VM is not being released by Apache. The major improvements include: The entire VM is only 3.1GB so it should be easy for folks to download The setup has been greatly simplified from the older and deprecated version hosted at the http://www.ibiblio.org/vclvm/ site The VM comes with the ESX/ESX 3i provisioning module pre-installed and ready to use To get started working with this VM, you will need: At least one ESX or ESX 3i hypervisor Some form of NFS storage which can also be SSH'd into. A good example of this is a simple Linux box acting as an NFS server. The link to the instructions (which include a VM download link) are located below. These instructions are on wiki ... if you use them, and find improvements, please update the documentation! https://wiki.oscr.ncsu.edu/wiki/index.php/The_VCL_2.1_Virtual_Appliance Best, Brian Brian Bouterse Secure Open Systems Initiative 919.698.8796 -- Yang Jie（杨杰） Team of MRMSS, Xi'an Jiaotong University Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University TEL: +8613468883723;029-82665263 EXT.24 MSN: xtyangjie2...@yahoo.com.cn E-mail: xtyang...@gmail.com -- Best wishes, 乔木 MOE KLINNS Lab and SKLMS Lab, Xi'an Jiaotong University Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University TEL: 15991676983 E-mail: qiao...@gmail.com
Re: Much Improved VCL Virtual Appliance (VCL 2.1 unofficial RC) Released
You can check on a VM as it is being provisioned by watching the vcld log. You can also view the hypervisor directly by using the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client pointing at your hypervisor. For instructions on creating a base linux VM image which the VCL VM can deploy out see here: https://wiki.oscr.ncsu.edu/wiki/index.php/Creating_a_base_linux_ESX_image_for_VCL For windows instructions, see here: https://wiki.oscr.ncsu.edu/wiki/index.php/Creating_a_base_windows_ESX_image_for_VCL Best, Brian Brian Bouterse Secure Open Systems Initiative 919.698.8796 On Apr 20, 2009, at 4:03 AM, 乔木 wrote: Hi, Thank you for your release. We have setup the environment for your VCL 2.1 Virtual Applicance. How could we know whether the VCL VM provision is OK? I didn't see any imformation about how to load a VM to the Hypervisor and run it. Thanks 2009/4/9 Brian Bouterse bmbou...@ncsu.edu Some other folks in the community are specializing the bare metal installs through some form of integration with xcat 2.1.1. To keep my sanity, I am specializing in virtualization only VCL deployments and functionality. Who in the community is in charge of the bare metal integration moving forward? Best, Brian Brian Bouterse Secure Open Systems Initiative 919.698.8796 On Apr 8, 2009, at 10:31 PM, 杨杰 wrote: Hi, Thank you for your greate help ! According to the email, this release does not support the deployment to the bare metal images. Then how could i make it ? Will you give some direction? Or is there any higher release version recently ? Thanks again ! 2009/4/9 Brian Bouterse bmbou...@ncsu.edu I've finished building the new version of the VCL VM appliance which is ready to deploy virtual machines onto ESX and ESX 3i hypervisors. This VM does not contain xcat and cannot deploy bare metal images or vmware-server images. The announcement is happening on this list because this VM appliance should lower the barrier to working with VCL within this community. Just to be clear, this VM is not being released by Apache. The major improvements include: The entire VM is only 3.1GB so it should be easy for folks to download The setup has been greatly simplified from the older and deprecated version hosted at the http://www.ibiblio.org/vclvm/ site The VM comes with the ESX/ESX 3i provisioning module pre- installed and ready to use To get started working with this VM, you will need: At least one ESX or ESX 3i hypervisor Some form of NFS storage which can also be SSH'd into. A good example of this is a simple Linux box acting as an NFS server. The link to the instructions (which include a VM download link) are located below. These instructions are on wiki ... if you use them, and find improvements, please update the documentation! https://wiki.oscr.ncsu.edu/wiki/index.php/The_VCL_2.1_Virtual_Appliance Best, Brian Brian Bouterse Secure Open Systems Initiative 919.698.8796 -- Yang Jie（杨杰） Team of MRMSS, Xi'an Jiaotong University Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University TEL: +8613468883723;029-82665263 EXT.24 MSN: xtyangjie2...@yahoo.com.cn E-mail: xtyang...@gmail.com -- Best wishes, 乔木 MOE KLINNS Lab and SKLMS Lab, Xi'an Jiaotong University Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University TEL: 15991676983 E-mail: qiao...@gmail.com
Re: Much Improved VCL Virtual Appliance (VCL 2.1 unofficial RC) Released
Hi, Thank you for your greate help ! According to the email, this release does not support the deployment to the bare metal images. Then how could i make it ? Will you give some direction? Or is there any higher release version recently ? Thanks again ! 2009/4/9 Brian Bouterse bmbou...@ncsu.edu I've finished building the new version of the VCL VM appliance which is ready to deploy virtual machines onto ESX and ESX 3i hypervisors. This VM does not contain xcat and cannot deploy bare metal images or vmware-server images. The announcement is happening on this list because this VM appliance should lower the barrier to working with VCL within this community. Just to be clear, this VM is not being released by Apache. The major improvements include: The entire VM is only 3.1GB so it should be easy for folks to download The setup has been greatly simplified from the older and deprecated version hosted at the http://www.ibiblio.org/vclvm/ site The VM comes with the ESX/ESX 3i provisioning module pre-installed and ready to use To get started working with this VM, you will need: At least one ESX or ESX 3i hypervisor Some form of NFS storage which can also be SSH'd into. A good example of this is a simple Linux box acting as an NFS server. The link to the instructions (which include a VM download link) are located below. These instructions are on wiki ... if you use them, and find improvements, please update the documentation! https://wiki.oscr.ncsu.edu/wiki/index.php/The_VCL_2.1_Virtual_Appliance Best, Brian Brian Bouterse Secure Open Systems Initiative 919.698.8796 -- Yang Jie（杨杰） Team of MRMSS, Xi'an Jiaotong University Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University TEL: +8613468883723;029-82665263 EXT.24 MSN: xtyangjie2...@yahoo.com.cn E-mail: xtyang...@gmail.com
