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Hello everybody,
I am currently working to my PhD Thesis which is in the Cloud Computing domain. I have made some researches on the internet in order to find some free Cloud Computing solutions to study and test some applications and models involving CC, but I didn't find any. So, I have some questions to the Eucalyptus community, maybe I will have some luck:
[1] Is it possible to install Eucalyptus on a single laptop? I have read some articles from Eucalypus site where is it presented this possibility but I didn't find any details. What kind of computer is necessary for this installation? Core Duo? i7? I suppose that is necessary a kind of hardware that supports Xen.
[2] Maybe some of you are (or were) in the same situation as me -- are there any CC providers that offers some free resources for academic purposes (only study and test small applications and models).
Best Regards,
Adrian
Hello Adrian,
1) it is possible. albeit it can be a bit confusing or complicated to set it up. You can try to start with SYSTEM or STATIC mode and install all components on your laptop. As per the hypervisor to choose, if your processor support hardware virtualization, you can choose between xen and kvm otherwise you have to choose xen.
2) we do have the EPC, which is free to use, but has some limitation on the usage. You may want to check it out in case it fits your needs.
cheers
graziano
Hello graziano,
Glad to hear so. But, can I use only one laptop with VMWare to create 3 virtual machines to setup a cloud? The idea 'virtual machine' running on 'virtual machine' is acceptable here?
Thank you much.
Hi rockballad,
Eucalyptus can show some problems when being run inside of a VM. You can try it if you want though we cannot guarantee that it will work and if it does that it will work properly. If you do get it running please let us know what you had done to do so if you get a chance.
Andrew
Hello,
I can setup a cloud on a single machine. There's still issue such as I can't ping the VM from another machine (hope you will have a look), but it can run after all.
However, on a VM, as I check many sources, VT is disabled (VMWare, VirtualBox), so kvm may not work. So we may have to use XEN. Look like many of you here don't like XEN very much. Recent versions of Ubuntu do not have XEN binary on source too.
I'll try to setup with XEN. I'll report when done.
Regards,
for experimenting purpose shall i try eucalyptus in VMware with xen for node controller. like setting up 3 virtual machine one for cc another for nc and a client machine ? whether this will work ?
Yes its possible to install eucalyptus on laptops. You should at least have a decent laptop to do this. At least 4GB RAM.
I use VMWARE to run two CentOS machines with xen hypervisors, one frontend and one NC.
Hello fdcipriano,
What is the version of CentOS, 32-bit or 64-bit? I have problem with 64-bit + XEN, because VMWare doesn't support paravirtualization 64-bit guess.
Thanks.
This is my configuration
I am using laptop with Windows 7 64 bit 4GB RAM i5 Intel processor
I have tried using 32 bit and 64 bit versions of CentOS on VMWare and its working for me. I think using 64 bit version of CentOS requires you to enable virtualization in the physical machine's BIOS. For intel processors I think its Intel-VT and for AMD i think its AMD-V. For my laptop, I think its already enabled. I tried using my PC also and i have encountered the same problem in 64 bit version. What I did was enable Intel-VT in the BIOS of my PC and everything works fine.
Hope this info helps.
Hi fdcipriano,
Thanks for the info. Though Eucalyptus does not officially support this sort of a setup I'm glad to see that it worked out for you.
Thanks,
Andrew
Hi everyone
I am going to build a cloud for my final project and I am gald to hear that that is possible by a single lab top.
can any body give me an instruction about this or guid me who it is possible?
Thanks