Run deltacloud on a VirtualBox-VM

For getting in touch with the Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) I installed the deltacloud server on a VirtualBox-VM.

Deltacloud is an apache open source project, which provides a REST-based API for accessing several different cloud platforms. Deltacloud supports three different frontends: classic Deltacloud, DMTF CIMI and EC2.

The following section describes the installation of deltacloud on a VirtualBox-VM step by step

1. Download and install VirtualBox
2. Download an ubuntu image
3. Create a new VM in VirtualBox
   1. Click new
   2. Type: Linux; Version: Ubuntu (64bit)
   3. Memory: 1024MB
   4. Click through the wizard without changing the default settings
4. Modify the machine settings in VirtualBox
   1. Select your VM and press Ctrl + s
   2. Go to Network
   3. Choose Adapter 2
   4. Select Host-only Adapter
5. Start the VM. While first startup you will be asked to reference the previously downloaded ubuntu image.

6. Install ruby and generate symlinks by executing following commands in the terminal

   sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-full

   sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 /usr/bin/ruby

   sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.9.1 /usr/bin/gem

7. Check the installation

   ruby -v

   gem -v

8. Install the following libraries, which are necessary to run deltacloud

   sudo apt-get install g++

   sudo apt-get install libxml++2.6-dev libxml2-dev

   sudo apt-get install libxslt1.1 libxslt-dev

   sudo apt-get install sqlite libsqlite3-dev

9. Install gem dependencies

   sudo gem install thin sinatra rack-accept rest-client sinatra-content-for nokogiri
   

10. Fetch and install the deltacloud dependencies

    sudo gem fetch deltacloud-core

    sudo gem fetch deltacloud-client

    sudo gem install deltacloud-core-<VERSION>.gem

    sudo gem install deltacloud-client-<VERSION>.gem

    If the installation of deltacloud-core throws an error, install deltacloud-client and afterwards install deltacloud-core again

11. Create a symlink for the launcher

      sudo ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/deltacloud-core-1.1.3/bin/deltacloudd /usr/bin/deltacloudd
    

12. Start the deltacloud server by executing the following command

      deltacloudd -i mock -p <PORT> -r <IP-OF-THE-VM> -f cimi
    

    The IP-OF-THE-VM can be found by executing ifconfig (see inet addr of eth1)

The deltacloud server is now accessible under http://IP-OF-THE-HOST-ONLY-ADAPTER:PORT/