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Installation notes

PYTHON 2.6 REQUIRED!!!

For developers

• Download and start redis (use another window)

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
./redis-server

• Get BZR

# ubuntu
apt-get install bzr

# OS X
brew install bzr

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

• Get virtualenv

sudo easy_install virtualenv

• 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

• Install eucatools

# ubuntu
sudo 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

tools/with_venv.sh bin/nova-manage user admin admin # create an admin user called 'admin'
tools/with_venv.sh bin/nova-manage project create admin admin # create a project called 'admin' with project manager of 'admin'
tools/with_venv.sh bin/nova-manage project environment admin admin # export environment variables for project 'admin' and user 'admin'
. novarc

• Install rabbit-mq

# ubuntu
sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server
# OSX
brew install rabbitmq

• Start services in their own windows (with_venv automatically activates venv in each)

tools/with_venv.sh bin/nova-api --verbose
tools/with_venv.sh bin/nova-objectstore --verbose --nodaemon
tools/with_venv.sh bin/nova-compute --verbose --nodaemon --connection_type=fake
# tools/with_venv.sh bin/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

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