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This is great Ian, i will keep an eye out for your work.

It will be useful for the meetups we run todo demo and how to installs.

On 6/1/14, 6:06 AM, Ian Duffy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am making slow but steady progress on my GSoC project. If anybody is
> interested in seeing the work completed and work left to do the JIRA ticket
> can be seen over here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-6114
>
> Any of the work can be seen over at https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014
>
> At the moment I have the following:
>
> # XenServer as Vagrant Box
>
> https://github.com/imduffy15/packer-xenserver
>
> I have a packerfile which will output a xenserver vagrant box. This box is
> configured with two interfaces. The vagrant NAT interface and a host only
> interface which will be used by Cloudstack.
>
> Originally I planned to use iptables on the xenserver box to allow the
> host-only interface to use the NAT interface to supply internet access to
> VMs brought up on the hypervisor. Sadly this didn't work as planned as the
> iptables were overwrote.
>
> The solution for this was to supply a gateway on the host only network.
>
> # Mysql, NFS and Gateway vagrant box
>
> https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/tree/master/MySQL_NFS
>
> I was able to re-use the chef recipes by the folks over at cloudops to
> bring up a vagrant box with MySQL and NFS installed/configured.
>
> The MySQL server is configured with no password. the vagrant file I use
> does a port forwarding from host machine to VM on 3306 to enable the host
> machine to execute things like mvn -P developer -pl developer -Ddeploydb
> without the need to change different configuration files within cloudstack.
>
> The NFS recipe simply exports /exports.
>
> I wrote a simple chef recipe (
> https://github.com/imduffy15/cookbook_nat-router ) to use iptables to
> forward traffic from the host-only interface to the NAT interface. This
> enables this box to be a gateway for the host-only network and can be used
> by the VMs brought up on xenserver to get internet access.
>
>
> # Modified devcloud.cfg
>
> I have supplied a modified devcloud.cfg file to work with the above
> described environment.
> https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/blob/master/devcloud.cfg
>
>
> My next step is to create a chef recipe that will download a system vm
> specified by a chef attribute. This system vm will be downloaded and
> installed onto the Mysql, NFS and Gateway vagrant box.
>