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Setting up Tools and Environment

- Install latest VirtualBox (5.0+)
- Install tools for exporting appliances: qemu-img, vboxmanage, vhd-util, ovftool
- Install [RVM](https://rvm.io/rvm/install)
- Install dependencies (tested on Ubuntu 16.04):
      apt-get install sharutils libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev build-essential ruby ruby-bundler ruby-dev qemu-utils blktap-utils faketime
- Setup paths:
      export PATH=~/.rvm/bin:$PATH
- Install Ruby 2.3.0, if it installed some other version:
      rvm install 2.3.0
- Set rvm to use that 2.3.0
      rvm use ruby-2.3.0
- Install bundler: (if you get any openssl issue see https://rvm.io/packages/openssl)
      gem install bundler

All the dependencies will be fetched automatically.

To save some time if you've downloaded iso of your distro, put the isos in: tools/appliance/iso/

Setting up jenkins (CI) builds

All the tools listed above are expected to be available. If you follow

http://rvm.io/integration/jenkins

then you'll need to do a bit of logic to load RVM in jenkins. In the build script you put into jenkins, start it with

#!/bin/bash -l

to ensure a login shell, then add something like

# inspired by https://github.com/CloudBees-community/rubyci-clickstart/blob/master/bin/run-ci
# also see https://rvm.io/integration/jenkins
# .rvmrc won't get trusted/auto-loaded by jenkins by default
export VAGRANT_HOME=$HOME/.vagrant.d-release-cloudstack
rvm use ruby-1.9.3@vagrant-release-cloudstack --create
# do not use --deployment since that requires Gemfile.lock...and we prefer an up-to-date veewee
bundle_args="--path vendor/bundle"

How to build SystemVMs automatically

Just run build.sh, it will export archived appliances for KVM, XenServer, VMWare and HyperV in dist directory:

bundle install
bash build.sh systemvm64template

Building SystemVM template appliance manually

List available appliances one can build:

veewee vbox list

Modify scripts in definitions/appliance/ as per needs. Build systemvm template appliance:

veewee vbox build 'systemvmtemplate'

Start the box:

veewee vbox up 'systemvmtemplate'

Halt the box:

veewee vbox halt 'systemvmtemplate'

Now VirtualBox can be used to export appliance.

To build the systemvm64template by hand using veewee, set VM_ARCH=amd64 and use the systemvmtemplate:

export VM_ARCH=amd64
cp -r definitions/systemvmtemplate definitions/systemvm64template
veewee vbox build 'systemvm64template'

Troubleshooting

If you see following line in the screen, then veewee is failing extracting vboxmanage version.

Downloading vbox guest additions iso v  - http://download.virtualbox.org/vi

You would be able to check it manually by typing:

vboxmanage --version

If you're using Fedora for example, you'll need to install kernel-devel package and run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup to get veewee working.

Testing

The ./test.sh script tries out a few different default ways to invoke build.sh.

See ../vagrant/systemvm for a test setup that uses vagrant+serverspec to provide actual integration tests that verify the built systemvm is up to spec.