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To setup an environment for CloudStack, usually it will take a while, e.g install a hypervisor host, install Mysql server etc. Here we'll use DevCloud2 to simplify the test procedure.  

Note

Following steps are tested on Mint 13, should work on ubuntu 12.04.  The same basic workflow should also work on Mac 10.7, with different specific commands for the prerequisite setup steps.  For Windows, you will need to run in cygwin and rename the genisoimage.exe file to mkisofs.

Note

Unless specified specifically, instruction steps should be assumed to be run from your local machine, not from within the DevCloud VM.  The DevCloud VM is the target runtime environment of the tests, but the instructions will push the code to that VM at the right time.

Setup environment

Install the devcloud VM image.

Note

DevCloud is a 1.5 GB download. It is a VM image running Ubuntu 12.04, including an installation of the Xen Hypervisor. We use DevCloud as a "cloud in a box" environment for basic functional testing of CloudStack.

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  • Open VirtualBox, File->Import Appliance->choose DevCloud.ova
  • NOTE: Change the memory to 2046
  • NOTE: please do NOT select "re-initialize the MAC address of all network cards"

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DevCloud VM image via the instructions on the DevCloud wiki page.


Install your required development tools (if not already available)

Warning

These pre-requisite development tools are not part of the release validation itself. The instructions are being provided for those testers that may not normally have these tools installed on their test system, and want to perform the expected tests. The pre-requisites listed may be be 100% complete (for example, we assume you have git, tar, etc... installed).  If you run into any issues, please ask on the dev@cloudstack.apache.org mailing list.

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