Obsolete:InstallationNova20100729

Installation notes

PYTHON 2.6 REQUIRED!!!

For developers

• Get Redis

curl http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.0.0-rc4.tar.gz -o redis-2.0.0-rc4.tar.gz
tar xvfz redis-2.0.0-rc4.tar.gz
cd redis-2.0.0-rc4

• Make and start Redis server

make
./redis-server

• Get BZR

http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/Download

SUDO MAY NOT BE NECESSARY

• Get virtualenv

sudo easy_install virtualenv

• Get PIP

sudo easy_install pip

• UBUNTU ONLY!!!

sudo apt-get build-dep python-m2crypto

• Get Nova and run tests

bzr init
bzr branch lp:nova
cd nova
python tools/install_venv.py
./run_tests.sh

• Set up python path for using nova

# example python path dir OSX: /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/
# example python path dir Ubuntu: /usr/lib/pymodulues/python2.6/dist-packages
echo "/path/to/bzr/branch" > cat /path/to/dir/in/python/path/nova.pth

• Activate the virtual environment (type deactivate to leave it later)

. .nova-venv/bin/activate

• Install eucatools

# ubuntu
apt-get install euca2ools
# OSX
wget http://open.eucalyptus.com/sites/all/modules/pubdlcnt/pubdlcnt.php?file=http://eucalyptussoftware.com/downloads/releases/euca2ools-1.2.tar.gz&nid=1346
tar zxf  euca2ools-1.2.tar.gz
cd euca2ools-1.2
sed -i="" "s/-g root/-g wheel/g" Makefile
sudo make install

• Set up user/project credentials

cd bin
./nova-manage user admin admin
./nova-manage project admin admin admin
./nova-manage project create admin admin admin
./nova-manage project zip admin admin
unzip nova.zip 
. novarc

• Start services in their own windows (don't forget to activate venv in each)

./nova-api --verbose
./nova-objectstore --verbose --nodaemon
./nova-compute --verbose --nodaemon --connection_type=fake
# ./nova-volume --verbose --nodaemon # ignore this for now, requires extra setup

• PROFIT???

Just to run on Debian or Ubuntu

Get packages from http://nova.openstack.org/pkgs