cloudmesh_vagrant 1.2.2

cloudmesh_vagrant - A real simple interface to virtualbox via vagrant

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.