Installing the Live CD

If you’d like to set up a sandbox installation of Nova, you can use one of these Live CD images.

If you don’t already have VirtualBox installed, you can download it from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.

Download the zip or iso file and then follow these steps to try Nova in a virtual environment.

http://c0047913.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/OpenStackNova.x86_64-2010.1.2.iso (OpenSUSE image; root password is “linux” for this image)

http://c0028699.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/nova-vm.zip (~900 MB) (log in information is nova/nova)

Once a VM is configured and started, here are the basics:

1. Login to Ubuntu using ID nova and Password nova.

2. Switch to running as sudo (enter nova when prompted for the password):

   sudo -s

3. To run Nova for the first time, enter:

   cd /var/openstack/

4. Now that you’re in the correct directory, enter:

   ./nova.sh run

   

If it’s already running, use screen -ls, and when the nova screen is presented,then enter screen -d -r nova.

These are the steps to get an instance running (the image is already provided in this environment). Enter these commands in the “test” screen.

euca-add-keypair test > test.pem
chmod 600 test.pem
euca-run-instances -k test -t m1.tiny ami-tiny
euca-describe-instances

ssh -i test.pem root@10.0.0.3

To see output from the various workers, switch screen windows with Ctrl+A ” (quotation mark).