Cloud in a Box and VMs

[mariolenz]

The Cloud in a Box has been tested to run on a virtual machine. However, the Cloud in a Box is mainly made for running on bare metal, the automated installation does not work, and other things may not work either.

I wonder why the automated installation doesn't work on VMs. Could someone please explain? I really think that it might help people to play around and evaluate SCS. I guess it's easier for most people to just spin up a VM on their existing virtualization platform.

I'd like to understand what's the problem here. I won't promise anything, but at least I'm interested to help there and maybe I could.

Possibly related issues:

#263
#264
#265
#290

BTW @berendt: I think three out of the four issues I've mentioned above are from you. It would be great to have a leetle bit more information there, not just the title ;-)

[berendt]

It probably works. It's just not tested. Somebody added some docs in the past: https://osism.tech/docs/guides/other-guides/cloud-in-a-box#running-on-a-virtual-machine. Those docs should be extended while working on the referenced issues. Yes, there could be "some" more content in the issues. I created them briefly as a reminder during a meeting.

The reason for this is primarily that we have a virtual testbed (osism/testbed) which does not work on bare metal. The idea was therefore that osism/cloud-in-a-box is for bare metal.

But I'm agreeing with you, it makes sense to make it work in VMs and we should bring it forward to be tested and documented.

[berendt]

• Easy / automated installation on vSphere #290
• Test Cloud in a Box @ Proxmox (ISO installation) #265
• Test Cloud in a Box @ Virtualbox (ISO installation) #264
• Test Cloud in a Box @ Libvirt/KVM (ISO installation) #263

[mariolenz]

It probably works. It's just not tested.

Cool! Then I'll give it a try.

BTW Good idea to add a checklist!