OpenNebula 4.4 VirtualBox Sandbox

The sandbox is a CentOS 6.3 virtual machine image with a pre-configured OpenNebula 4.4.0 front-end, a virtualization host using QEMU ready to execute virtual machines, and prepared images to offer a complete and rich cloud experience. Optionally other physical worker nodes using any of the hypervisors supported by OpenNebula can be enrolled to build small-scale cloud infrastructures. Users are able to log into an OpenNebula cloud, peer the managed resources, and launch instances of virtual machines without the hassle of configuring a physical infrastructure.

1. Requirements

512M free RAM for the Virtual Machine
3 GB of free disk space
A 64-bit kernel

2. Download the Virtual Appliance

Download the image from here: VirtualBox.

The image is compressed using bzip2. Be sure to decompress it before moving on.

Recommended unarchivers:

Mac OS X: The Unarchiver
Linux: bzip2 (available in most package managers)
Windows: 7-Zip

3. Boot the Appliance

3.1 - Download and install VirtualBox

Follow this guide in order to install VirtualBox.

_{Mac OS X users should read this document and enable the 64-bit kernel, which might not be enabled by default. This is a list of the Macs that use the 64-bit kernel by default.}

3.2 - Create a new Virtual Machine

Create a new Virtual Machine by clicking on the New button.
Enter opennebula-sandbox in the Name field, select Type Linux and Version Red Hat (64-bit)
Select 512M for the Memory size
Select Use an existing virtual hard drive and select the uncompressed image downloaded in step 2 by clicking in the folder icon. Click on Create
Under Machine → Settings, select the Network option, click on the Advanced arrow, and you will see a Port Forwarding button. Click on it and you will see a dialog appear. Click on the icon that has a green plus sign and fill in 9869 both in the Host Port and Guest Port columns, leave all the other fields in blank. Add another rule by repeating the process, but use the port number 29876 instead.

3.3 - Start the Appliance

Click on the Start button and a Virtual Machine console will pop up. Wait until you see a login prompt that says ''one-sandbox login:“

At this point you can log in into the Virtual Machine using the following information:

Login: root
Password: opennebula

4. Take a Test Drive

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Follow this guide in order to check out what OpenNebula can do.

Table of Contents

1. Requirements

2. Download the Virtual Appliance

3. Boot the Appliance

4. Take a Test Drive