Difference between revisions of "Agile testbed/Cloud/Installation notes"

Revision as of 14:05, 10 February 2010

This page contains notes on the installation of the agile testbed cloud.

Install CentOS 5 bare-bones
Setup LDAP authentication (see this guide)
- add ldap to /etc/nsswitch.conf's passwd, shadow and group entries
- configure /etc/ldap.conf according to this
- make sure the DutchGrid CA certificate is in /etc/openldap/cacerts/16da7552.0 (from rpm or here)
- add an appropriate pam_ldap.so before each pam_unix line in /etc/pam.d/system-auth
- create homedirs for your users as /user/<username> with correct owner
Enable Xen (see also Xen on CentOS 5)
- yum install xen kernel-xen
- make grub boot Xen kernel by default (change default in /boot/grub/menu.lst), add nosmp to kernel cmdline and reboot

Install and configure OpenNebula
- add EPEL repository
- install packages: ruby ruby-devel gcc gcc-c++ make openssl-devel scons flex bison
- enable Karan Extras repository and install xmlrpc-c: yum install --enablerepo=kbs-CentOS-Testing xmlrpc-c-devel
- download and install OpenNebula
  - either manually from source, installing a recent sqlite first (according to manual)
  - or use the spec file and patch
Setup dynamic DNS
- install and configure bind
- create OpenNebula hooks with ddns-update script
Setup image repository

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 ** download and install OpenNebula
 *** either manually from source, installing a recent sqlite first (according to manual)
-*** or [http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment use] the [http://svn.opennebula.org/components/packages/trunk/redhat/one-1.4.0.spec spec file]
+*** or [http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment use] the [http://svn.opennebula.org/components/packages/trunk/redhat/one-1.4.0.spec spec file] and [http://svn.opennebula.org/components/packages/trunk/redhat/one-1.4.0.patch patch]
 * Setup dynamic DNS
 ** install and configure bind