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For my first week working with Apache Cloudstack I wanted to get a quick feel for it. Going through the documentation proved to be a little daunting, with a quick installation guide, an advanced installation guide, an administration guide, a developer guide, a cloudbridge guide…My head went spinning really fast. Then DevCloud (http://wiki.cloudstack.org/display/COMM/DevCloud) came to the rescue.

Edison Su one of the Cloudstack developer for Citrix came up with a fully configured virtual box appliance that contained the cloudstack management server and took advantage of nested virtualization to actually spin up virtual machines within the appliance started in cloudstack. A clever packaging aimed at developers trying to test their code, but a packaging that can also be used to get a quick hands-on tour of the system.

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