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- do not keep passwords in databag (/etc/cloudstack/vmpasswd.json) - process only the password we get in (vm_password.json) from mgt server - lookup the correct passwd server instead of adding passwd to all of them Example: - 4 tiers and 199 VMs running - Start vm 200 would cause new passwd from vm_password.json (1) to be merged with /etc/cloudstack/vmpasswd.json (199) - A curl command was exected foreach password (200) foreach tier (4) resulting in 800 calls - In fact, since passwds are never cleaned it could very well be even more as the ip address was the key in the json file so until the ip address was reused the original password would remain and be sent to passwd server every time another vm starts. - This took ~40 seconds Now we just figure out the right tier and only process the new password resulting in a single curl call. - takes 0,03 seconds!
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Note there is a new systemvm build script based on
Veewee(Vagrant) under tools/appliance.
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1. The buildsystemvm.sh script builds a 32-bit system vm disk based on the Debian Squeeze distro. This system vm can boot on any hypervisor thanks to the pvops support in the kernel. It is fully automated
2. The files under config/ are the specific tweaks to the default Debian configuration that are required for CloudStack operation.
3. The variables at the top of the buildsystemvm.sh script can be customized:
IMAGENAME=systemvm # dont touch this
LOCATION=/var/lib/images/systemvm #
MOUNTPOINT=/mnt/$IMAGENAME/ # this is where the image is mounted on your host while the vm image is built
IMAGELOC=$LOCATION/$IMAGENAME.img
PASSWORD=password # password for the vm
APT_PROXY= #you can put in an APT cacher such as apt-cacher-ng
HOSTNAME=systemvm # dont touch this
SIZE=2000 # dont touch this for now
DEBIAN_MIRROR=ftp.us.debian.org/debian
MINIMIZE=true # if this is true, a lot of docs, fonts, locales and apt cache is wiped out
4. The systemvm includes the (non-free) Sun JRE. You can put in the standard debian jre-headless package instead but it pulls in X and bloats the image.
5. You need to be 'root' to run the buildsystemvm.sh script
6. The image is a raw image. You can run the convert.sh tool to produce images suitable for Citrix Xenserver, VMWare and KVM.
* Conversion to Citrix Xenserver VHD format requires the vhd-util tool. You can use the
-- checked in config/bin/vhd-util) OR
-- build the vhd-util tool yourself as follows:
a. The xen repository has a tool called vhd-util that compiles and runs on any linux system (http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg?file/8e8dd38374e9/tools/blktap2/vhd/ or full Xen source at http://www.xen.org/products/xen_source.html).
b. Apply this patch: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=xen-devel&i=006101cb22f6%242004dd40%24600e97c0%24%40zhuo%40cloudex.cn.
c. Build the vhd-util tool
cd tools/blktap2
make
sudo make install
* Conversion to ova (VMWare) requires the ovf tool, available from
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vsphere/automationtools/ovf
* Conversion to QCOW2 requires qemu-img