cloudmesh_vagrant 1.2.2

Description:

cloudmesh vagrant 1.2.2

Virtualbox provides a vonvenient way to manage virtual machines on a
local computer. Graphical user interfaces, a commandline client, but
also vagrant exist to access them. However we noticed that we often
only need a very small subset to start a vm and to tear it
down. Remembering the interfaces is difficult. Previously we developed
a cloudmesh_client that has an easy to remember interface. We leverage
from this experience and introduce a very easy to remember commandline
client. At the same time we also allow a simpl python API to manage
virtual machines on virtualbox. We use vagrant internally. However
vagrants focus on directories and Vagrantfiles in a bit inconvenient
also fo us, so we provided wrappers and utelize the design of vagrant
to our advantage while only exposing the needed functionality.

Manual Page
Usage:
cm-vbox version [--format=FORMAT]
cm-vbox image list [--format=FORMAT]
cm-vbox image find NAME
cm-vbox image add NAME
cm-vbox vm list [--format=FORMAT] [-v]
cm-vbox vm delete NAME
cm-vbox vm config NAME
cm-vbox vm ip NAME [--all]
cm-vbox create NAME ([--memory=MEMORY]
[--image=IMAGE]
[--script=SCRIPT] | list)
cm-vbox vm boot NAME ([--memory=MEMORY]
[--image=IMAGE]
[--port=PORT]
[--script=SCRIPT] | list)
cm-vbox vm ssh NAME [-e COMMAND]
cm-vbox -h | --help


Source Code

github.com/cloudmesh/vagrant



Prerequisits
Make sure you have the python development libraries and pip installed

Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install python-pip



Inastall from pip
pip install cloudmesh_vagrant


Install from github
mkdir cloudmesh
cd cloudmesh
git clone https://github.com/cloudmesh/vagrant
cd vagrant
python setup.py install


Examples

Listing vms
List the vms:
cm-vbox vm list


name
state
id
provider
directory

w12
w1
running
running
47347b4
db913dd
virtualbox
virtualbox
~/w12
~/w1





Listing images
List the images:
cm-vbox image list


name
provider
date

ubuntu/trusty64
virtualbox
20160406.0.0





Booting vms
Start a vm while taking an ubuntu image as default:
cm-vbox vm boot w12


Login
To login into a vm you can use the ssh command followed by the VM:
cm-vbox vm ssh w12
where w12 is the name of the vm.


Executing a command
To just execute a command, use:
cm-vbox vm ssh w12 -e uname


Destroy a vm
Deletes the specified vm:
cm-vbox vm delete w12


Create a Vagrantfile
Creates a Vagrantfile in ./w12/Vagrantfile:
cm-vbox create w12


Destroy the directory of the vm
Assume you like to destroy also the directory with all information about the previously
run vm you can simple delete it with rm:
cm-vbox vm delete w12
rm -r w12
Please not that wen you delet the directory the list command will automatically remove
it from the available vms. Hoewver before you delete it is advisable to destroy the vm
so you do not have the vm any longer running.