Re: running starcluster on openstack

From: Rayson Ho <no email>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 10:20:14 -0400

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Shunde Zhang
<shunde.zhang_at_adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Rayson,
>
> Thanks a lot for the information.
> I have successfully downloaded the images, but I am not sure how to use
> them.
> Do you think I can load them into OpenStack without any changes?

They are ISO images, so you will need to convert them from ISO to KVM
(or Xen) image format. Also, OpenStack does not have its own VMM, so
if you are using KVM/QEMU (IIRC, KVM is the kernel part, so it's QEMU
that reads the image), then you will need to find the a way to convert
the ISOs to a format that KVM/QEMU uses.

Rayson

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>
> I am also trying to launch a VM from the image in KVM but not much luck.
> Do you know how to fire up a VM from the image?
> Is there a document you could probably point me to?
>
>
> Regards,
> Shunde Zhang
>
> School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, "Life Impact"
> Email: shunde.zhang_at_adelaide.edu.au
> Phone: +61 8 83038265
>
> eResearch SA (eRSA), "Enabling Discovery, Innovation and Collaboration
> through eResearch"
> 14 Little Queen Street, Thebarton, SA 5031
> Email: shunde.zhang_at_eresearchsa.edu.au
>
>
>
> On 29/06/2012, at 1:44 AM, Rayson Ho wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Shunde Zhang
> <shunde.zhang_at_adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Given that openstack has an ec2-like interface, I wonder if I can use
>
> start cluster with openstack?
>
>
> See:
> http://www.cybera.ca/tech-radar/making-starcluster-work-with-openstack
>
>
> Also you have put some images into ec2 for star cluster to fire up VMs.
>
> Those images seem to have SGE pre-installed, don't they?
>
>
> The AMIs have SGE loaded, and the starcluster command runs setup every
> time you launch a cluster.
>
>
> Can I download the images from somewhere so I can put them into our
>
> openstack image repository?
>
>
> http://web.mit.edu/star/cluster/download_amis.html
>
> Rayson
>
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> http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/
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>
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Shunde Zhang
>
>
> School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, "Life Impact"
>
> Email: shunde.zhang_at_adelaide.edu.au
>
> Phone: +61 8 83038265
>
>
> eResearch SA (eRSA), "Enabling Discovery, Innovation and
>
> Collaboration through eResearch"
>
> 14 Little Queen Street, Thebarton, SA 5031
>
> Email: shunde.zhang_at_eresearchsa.edu.au
>
>
>
>
Received on Mon Jul 02 2012 - 10:20:15 EDT