Infrasim-compute: bare-metal server simulator

System Basic Requirements

Infrasim package can be installed in any physical machine or virtual machines hosted by Virtualbox, ESXi, Parallel Desktop or cloud provider like AWS, Linode and etc.

The basic installation system requirements are:

1. Ubuntu Linux 64bit OS (14.04/15.04/16.04)

2. at least 4GB memory

3. at least 16GB disk size

Installation

1. Ensure sources.list integrity then install dependency:

   sudo apt-get update

   sudo apt-get install python-pip libpython-dev libssl-dev

2. Upgrade pip and install setuptools:

   sudo pip install –upgrade pip

   sudo pip install setuptools

3. Two ways to install infrasim:

   • install infrasim from source code:

     git clone https://github.com/InfraSIM/infrasim-compute.git

     cd infrasim-compute

     sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

     sudo python setup.py install

   • install infrasim from python library:

     sudo pip install infrasim-compute

Start Infrasim Service

1. Initialization (you need do it once)

   sudo infrasim-init

2. Start Infrasim Service

   sudo infrasim-main start

3. Stop Infrasim Service

   sudo infrasim-main stop

Notice: You can use VNC to access the emulated legacy hardware, the default VNC port is 5901

Configure Infrasim

You can configure your own legacy hardware through /etc/infrasim/infrasim.yml.