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Cloud in a box
https://osism.github.io/docs/guides/deploy-guide/examples/cloud-in-a-box
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Cloud in a Box and VMs #289

Open mariolenz opened 4 months ago

mariolenz commented 4 months ago

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.

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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 commented 4 months ago

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 commented 4 months ago
mariolenz commented 4 months ago

It probably works. It's just not tested.

Cool! Then I'll give it a try.

BTW Good idea to add a checklist!