ganeti-instance-opensuse ======================== This is a guest OS definition for Ganeti (http://code.google.com/p/ganeti). It will install a minimal version of OpenSuSE via zypper and HTTP repositories (thus it requires network access). This only works if you have a SuSE-based node or you have zypper and its dependencies installed by hand on another distribution. Installation ------------ In order to install this package from source, you need to determine what options ganeti itself has been configured with. If ganeti was built directly from source, then the only place it looks for OS definitions is ``/srv/ganeti/os``, and you need to install the OS under it:: ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-os-dir=/srv/ganeti/os make && make install If ganeti was installed from a package, its default OS path should already include /usr/share/ganeti/os, so you can just run:: ./configure -prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var \ --sysconfdir=/etc make && make install Note that you need to repeat this procedure on all nodes of the cluster. The actual path that ganeti has been installed with can be determined by looking for a file named _autoconf.py under a ganeti directory in the python modules tree (e.g. ``/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ganeti/_autoconf.py``). In this file, a variable named OS_SEARCH_PATH will list all the directories in which ganeti will look for OS definitions. Configuration of instance creation ---------------------------------- The kind of instance created can be customized via a settings file. This file is not installed by default, as the instance creation will work without it. The creation scripts will look for it in ``$sysconfdir/default/ganeti-instance-opensuse``, so if you have run configure with the parameter ``--sysconfdir=/etc``, the final filename will be ``/etc/default/ganeti-instance-opensuse``. The following settings will be examined in this file (see also the file named 'defaults' in the source distribution for more details): - PROXY: HTTP proxy to use for non-cached installs. - MIRROR: The mirror to use if not the default one - VERSION: The OpenSuSE version to be installed; the current default is 11.1. - CUSTOMIZE_DIR: a directory containing customization scripts for the instance. (by default $sysconfdir/ganeti/instance-opensuse.d) See "Customization of the instance" below. - GENERATE_CACHE: if 'yes' (the default), the installation process will save and reuse a cache file to speed reinstalls (located under $localstatedir/cache/ganeti-instance-opensuse) - CLEAN_CACHE: if empty, the cached files will never be cleaned and thus the installation will definitely need to be updated after install; otherwise, the value of this variable will be taken as the number of days after which to remove the cache file; the default is 14 (two weeks) - PARTITION_STYLE: if 'none' the device will be formatted directly, if 'msdos' a partition table will be installed on it. You need to have kpartx installed to use the 'msdos' option. The default is 'msdos' from Ganeti 2.0 onwards, but still 'none' if installing under Ganeti 1.2 Note that the settings file is important on the node that the instance is installed on, not the cluster master. This is indeed not a very good model of using this OS but currently the OS interface in ganeti is limiting. Customization of the instance ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If the CUSTOMIZE_DIR (by default $sysconfdir/ganeti/instance-opensuse.d, /etc/ganeti/instance-opensuse.d if you configured the os with --sysconfdir=/etc) directory exists, any executable file is executed to allow further personalization of the installation. The following environment variables are passed, in addition to the ones ganeti passes to the OS scripts: TARGET: Directory in which the filesystem is mounted. VERSION: OpenSuSE version installed installed. PARTITION_STYLE: Style of the disk partitioning (see above). BLOCKDEV: ganeti block device. FSYSDEV: Device in which the filesystem resides (the one mounted in TARGET). The scripts in CUSTOMIZE_DIR can exit with an error code to signal an error in the instance creation, should they fail. The scripts in CUSTOMIZE_DIR should not start any long-term processes or daemons using this directory, otherwise the installation will fail because it won't be able to unmount the filesystem from the directory, and hand the instance back to Ganeti. Caching ~~~~~~~ As described above, the install process uses a cache file in order to speed up repeated installs. If you only rarely do installs, this will not matter to you, but if you want to install 10 instances in a row, the difference will be visible. The default settings are to generate a cache, and to clean it up after two weeks. Note that the cache will use one file per architecture per suite, so if you install multiple suites there might be a non-trivial amount of space used in the cache directory. It is safe to remove manually the files. It is also possible, if done with care, to modify and regenerate the cache file (which is simply a tar archive) in order to preseed your installs with site-specific customizations. Instance notes -------------- The instance is a minimal install: - It has no password for root; simply login at the console - It has no network interfaces defined (besides lo); add your own definitions with /sbin/yast2.