Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of PluggingIn

Timestamp:

Oct 4, 2012 6:20:18 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Ted Faber

Comment:

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PluggingIn

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 For more bread crumbs look in {{{setup/qemu/40_file_systems.py}}} and {{{setup/qemu/50_root_fs.py}}} (look for 'fstab' in the latter).
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+== Site Configuration ==
+
+The site configuration file is an attribute value pair file parsed by a [file:///usr/local/share/doc/python2.7/library/configparser.html python ConfigParser] that sets overall container parameters.  Many of these have legacy internal names.
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+Acceptable values (and their DETER defaults) are:
+
+  backend_server::
+    The IRC server used as a backend coordination service for grandstand.  Will be replaced by MAGI.  Default: {{{boss.isi.deterlab.net:6667}}}
+  grandstand_port::
+    Port that third party applications can contact grandstand on.  Will be replaced by MAGI.  Default: {{{4919}}}
+  maverick_url::
+    Default image used by qemu containers.  Default: {{{http://scratch/benito/pangolinbz.img.bz2}}}
+  url_base::
+    Base URL of the DETER web interface on which users can see experiments.  Default: {{{http://www.isi.deterlab.net/}}}
+  qemu_host_hw::
+    Hardware used by containers.  Default: {{{pc2133,bpc2133,MicroCloud}}}
+  xmlrpc_server::
+    Host and port from which to request experiment creation. Default: {{{boss.isi.deterlab.net:3069}}}
+  qemu_host_os::
+    OSID to request for qemu container nodess. Default: {{{Ubuntu1204-64-STD}}}
+  exec_root:: 
+    Root of the directory tree holding containers software and libraries.  Developers often change this. Default: {{{/share/containers}}}
+  openvz_host_os::
+    OSID to request for openvz nodes. Default {{{CentOS6-64-openvz}}}
+  openvz_guest_url::
+    Location to load the openvz template from.  Default: {{{ %(exec_root)s/images/ubuntu-10.04-x86.tar.gz}}}
+  switch_shaping::
+    True if switched containers (see below) should do traffic shaping in the VDE switch that connects them.  Default: {{{true}}}
+  switched_containers::
+    A list of the containers that are networked with VDE switches.  Default: {{{qemu,process}}}