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author | Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net> | 2009-05-14 09:34:20 +1000 |
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committer | Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net> | 2009-05-14 09:34:20 +1000 |
commit | 1cf236c0974d4dd285c55b767b9b0f89e757193d (patch) | |
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Updates to README.
Better advice on libvirt configuration and constructing a autocluster
configuration file.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net>
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@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ To setup a virtual cluster for SoFS with autocluster follow these steps: nbd-client is in the nbd package. - - Ubuntu + * Ubuntu Useful packages ship with Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and later. @@ -73,12 +73,26 @@ To setup a virtual cluster for SoFS with autocluster follow these steps: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nbd/ + You will need to add the autocluster directory to your PATH. + You will need to configure the right kvm networking setup. The files in host_setup/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/ should help. This command will install the right networks for kvm: rsync -av --delete host_setup/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/ /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/ + After this you might need to reload libvirt: + + /etc/init.d/libvirt reload + + or similar. + + You might also need to set: + + VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI=qemu:///system + + in your environment so that virsh does KVM/QEMU things by default. + 2) You need a caching web proxy on your local network. If you don't have one, then install a squid proxy on your host. See host_setup/etc/squid/squid.conf for a sample config suitable for a @@ -183,11 +197,17 @@ CONFIGURATION - all the items listed under "configuration options:" are the equivalents of the settings for config files. -* Run "autocluster --dump > config.foo" (or similar) to create a - config file containing the default values for all options that you - can set. You can then delete all options for which you wish to keep - the default values and then modify the remaining ones, resulting in - a relatively small config file. +* Run "autocluster --dump > config.defaults" (or similar) to create a + file containing the default values for all options that you can set. + I don't recommend that you use this as a configuration file but it + can be handy as a reference. + + I recommend that you aim for the smallest possible configuration + file. Perhaps start with: + + FIRSTIP=<whatever> + + and move on from there. * Use the --with-release option on the command-line or the with_release function in a configuration file to get default values @@ -203,6 +223,10 @@ CONFIGURATION with_release "SoFS-1.5.3" + So the smallest possible config file would have something like this + as the first line and would then set FIRSTIP. Add other options as + you need them. + The release definitions are stored in releases/*.release. The available releases are listed in the output of "autocluster --help". |