I’m setting up a personal lab OpenStack server.

Install Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop in a VM [2014.10.31]

• Download http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
• Using VMware Fusion 7
  • New VM:
  • Choose: Install from disc or image
  • More Options
  • Create a custom virtual machine
  • Linux, Ubuntu 64-bit
  • Create a new virtual disk (20 GB)
  • Do not auto-run it.
  • Mount the ISO on the virtual DVD and start the VM
  • Respond to the Ubuntu prompts:
    • Install Ubuntu
    • Choose “Download updates while installing” and NOT “Install this third-party software” and press Continue
    • Erase disk and install Ubuntu. Press Install Now.
    • Choose location = “New York” (or your own time zone) and press Continue.
    • Keyboard layout = English(US). I also chose the Dvorak layout. Press Continue.
    • Enter your name (kevin), your computer name (openstack-kpk), user name (kevin), password (my standard password), choose login automatically. Press Continue.
    • When it came time for it to restart, it locked up and I had to manually restart the VM.
  • Update Ubuntu to pick up all patches
  • sudo apt-get install git
  • From the Virtual Machine (vmware) menu, choose Install(Reinstall) VMware tools, and wait for the DVD to auto-mount on the Ubuntu desktop.
  • Copy the VMwareTools…gz to /tmp
  • cd /tmp
  • tar -zxvf *.gz
  • cd vmware-tools-distrib
  • sudo ./vmware-install.pl
    • Accept the default at all prompts.
  • sudo reboot
  • Confirm that clipboard sharing between the host and VM works. (Copy some text from a host window into a guest window.)

Install Devstack: [2014.10.31]

• git clone https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack.git
• cd devstack
• ./stack.sh
  • Be careful: for the FIRST password, the one you choose will become your mysql root password for the whole VM, not just openstack.
  • For the rest of the passwords, ‘nova’ is a fine password for a development environment.
  • (I inadvertently set up mysql root and all the openstack passwords to match my Linux login password, which would be a problem if I weren’t using a private, inaccessable VM.)

• At the end of stack.sh, it will say something like the following. Be sure to capture the URLs.

  Horizon is now available at http://192.168.137.130/ Keystone is serving at http://192.168.137.130:5000/v2.0/

Interesting openstack commands:

• ./stack.sh
• ./unstack.sh
• ./rejoin_stack.sh

I finished the setup, now I want to tear down devstack and start over:

• If devstack is running:
  • cd devstack
  • ./unstack.sh
• Just “rm -rf devstack” and repeat the “Install Devstock” instructions.
• Note: Be sure to use the same mysql password you used the first time, because the first install ran your mysql install and set its root password.

Helpful URLs:

• http://www.rushiagr.com/blog/2014/04/03/openstack-in-an-hour-with-devstack/
• https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg24529.html
• http://www.rushiagr.com/blog/2013/05/27/cinder-on-devstack-quick-start/
• http://devstack.org/

Some hints:

• Passwords are saved in devstack/localrc
• Default users are ‘admin’ and ‘demo’