VMBuild

This application facilitates the creation of a ova based virtal machine.

Requirements

• Linux
• Virtualbox (Latest release 4.2.14 has a bug causing vagrant to fail)
• Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com version 1.2.2+)
• Python 2.7.x
• Paramiko

Currently this code line is based around the HPCCSystems.com VM build process.

Usage

usage: Generate a Vagrant VM Build. [-h] [--template= TEMPLATE] [--dest DEST]
                                [--key KEY] [--level LEVEL]
                                VERSION BUILD

positional arguments:
    VERSION               Version to build.
    BUILD                 Build to locate on staging.

optional arguments:
    -h, --help            show this help message and exit
    --template= TEMPLATE  Template to use for the Build.
    --dest DEST           The destination to create the Build.
    --key KEY             SSH Key to use to get file from staging.
    --level LEVEL         Set Logging level.


To build default 32bit Ubuntu VM:
   ./generate-vm-template.py --dest ~/VMbuildDir --json HPCCSystemsVM_GM_NM_WS.json
      --gm-version 5.0.2-1 --nm-version 5.0.2-1 --wssql-version 5.0.2-rc1 5.0.2-1 CE-Candidate-5.0.2

To build 64bit Ubuntu VM:
   ./generate-vm-template.py --json HPCCSystemsVM64_GM_NM_WS.json --dest ~/VMbuildDir64 
      --gm-version 5.0.2-1 --nm-version 5.0.2-1 --wssql-version 5.0.2-rc1 5.0.2-1 CE-Candidate-5.0.2

Configuration

To configure, modify HPCCSystemsVM.json.

Currently only two stagingMethod works, "ssh" or "http".