[CentOS-devel] Test OpenStack Essex builds for CentOS

Sun Sep 16 18:23:26 UTC 2012
Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro>

On 22.08.2012 16:27, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> hi,
>
> http://people.centos.org/z00dax/openstack/essex/
>
> repo file:
> 
> http://people.centos.org/z00dax/openstack/essex/CentOS-OpenStack-Essex-test.repo
>
> These should be considered as testing packages and are based on the
> upstream Open Stack preview 1 rpms set. These rpms are also signed 
> with
> the CentOS-6-Testing key and not the regular distro key. The .el6.alt
> distag indicates they were built on the Alt.BuildSys and not the 
> primary
> system.[1]
>
> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_OpenStack_Preview/ 
> is
> perhaps the best place to go for a quick start process. The only 
> major
> difference is section 1.1 of the docs, that explain howto get the rhn
> repo setup should be replaced by just downloading the above mentioned
> .repo file into /etc/yum.repos.d/
>
> It takes about 15 minutes to walk through and the end result is a
> functional open stack install.
>
> If anyone wants to offer up some basic template images to use, please 
> do
> so.
>
> I have not tested to see how these rpms are going to work 
> with/conflict
> with the EPEL hosted openstack.  Some feedback on that would be
> appreciated as well.
>
> - KB
>
> [1]: Lots more details on that over the next few weeks.

Hi KB,

I installed it successfully on a Centos+EPEL server; everything seems 
fine with the exception of VNC applet which for some reason I had 
problems accessing so I switched to the noVNC version.
Now everything is fine.

I created a Centos6 image that one can add to openstack:
glance -v add name=centos6_64bit is_public=true disk_format=qcow2 
container_format=ovf 
copy_from=http://dl.nux.ro/openstack/centos6_64bit-openstack.qcow2
root passwd is "password"
selinux on
iptables off
ntp on
swap is on, but minuscule as to avoid much I/O (64M, can be increased 
with e.g.: swapoff -a; fallocate -l512M /swap.IMG; mkswap /swap.IMG; 
swapon -a)
epel-release installed and active
console=ttyS0
cloud-init installed and active
size ~800 MB

I'm going to try a more distributed setup next week and report back.

Looking forward to Folsom tbh. :-)

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