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Copyright 2010-2011 United States Government as represented by the
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
under the License.
Setting Up a Development Environment
====================================
This page describes how to setup a working Python development
environment that can be used in developing nova on Ubuntu, Fedora or
Mac OS X. These instructions assume you're already familiar with
git.
Following these instructions will allow you to run the nova unit
tests. If you want to be able to run nova (i.e., launch VM instances),
you will also need to install libvirt and at least one of the
`supported hypervisors`_. Running nova is currently only supported on
Linux, although you can run the unit tests on Mac OS X.
.. _supported hypervisors: http://wiki.openstack.org/HypervisorSupportMatrix
Virtual environments
--------------------
Nova development uses a set of shell scripts in DevStack. Virtual
enviroments with venv are also available with the source code.
The easiest way to build a fully functional development environment is
with DevStack. Create a machine (such as a VM or Vagrant box) running a
distribution supported by DevStack and install DevStack there. For
example, there is a Vagrant script for DevStack at https://github.com/jogo/DevstackUp.
.. note::
If you prefer not to use devstack, you can still check out source code on your local
machine and develop from there.
Linux Systems
-------------
.. note::
This section is tested for Nova on Ubuntu (10.10-64) and
Fedora-based (RHEL 6.1) distributions. Feel free to add notes and
change according to your experiences or operating system.
Install the prerequisite packages.
On Ubuntu::
sudo apt-get install python-dev libssl-dev python-pip git-core libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
On Ubuntu Precise (12.04) you may also need to add the following packages::
sudo apt-get build-dep python-mysqldb
On Fedora-based distributions (e.g., Fedora/RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux)::
sudo yum install python-devel openssl-devel python-pip git gcc libxslt-devel mysql-devel
Mac OS X Systems
----------------
Install virtualenv::
sudo easy_install virtualenv
Check the version of OpenSSL you have installed::
openssl version
If you have installed OpenSSL 1.0.0a, which can happen when installing a
MacPorts package for OpenSSL, you will see an error when running
``nova.tests.auth_unittest.AuthTestCase.test_209_can_generate_x509``.
The stock version of OpenSSL that ships with Mac OS X 10.6 (OpenSSL 0.9.8l)
or Mac OS X 10.7 (OpenSSL 0.9.8r) works fine with nova.
Getting the code
----------------
Grab the code from GitHub::
git clone https://github.com/openstack/nova.git
cd nova
Running unit tests
------------------
The unit tests will run by default inside a virtualenv in the ``.venv``
directory. Run the unit tests by doing::
./run_tests.sh
The first time you run them, you will be asked if you want to create a virtual
environment (hit "y")::
No virtual environment found...create one? (Y/n)
See :doc:`unit_tests` for more details.
.. _virtualenv:
Manually installing and using the virtualenv
--------------------------------------------
You can manually install the virtual environment instead of having
``run_tests.sh`` do it for you::
python tools/install_venv.py
This will install all of the Python packages listed in the
``tools/pip-requires`` file into your virtualenv. There will also be some
additional packages (pip, distribute, greenlet) that are installed
by the ``tools/install_venv.py`` file into the virutalenv.
If all goes well, you should get a message something like this::
Nova development environment setup is complete.
To activate the Nova virtualenv for the extent of your current shell session
you can run::
$ source .venv/bin/activate
Or, if you prefer, you can run commands in the virtualenv on a case by case
basis by running::
$ tools/with_venv.sh <your command>
Contributing Your Work
----------------------
Once your work is complete you may wish to contribute it to the project.
Refer to HowToContribute_ for information.
Nova uses the Gerrit code review system. For information on how to submit
your branch to Gerrit, see GerritWorkflow_.
.. _GerritWorkflow: http://wiki.openstack.org/GerritWorkflow
.. _HowToContribute: http://wiki.openstack.org/HowToContribute
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