Readme for the vm5k package

A python module to ease the experimentations of virtual Machines on the Grid‘5000 platform. It is composed of:

  • a script that deploy virtual machines (vm5k)
  • an experimental engine that conduct user defined workflow for a set of parameters (vm5k_engine)
  • a lib to setup Debian hosts with libvirt and manage virtual machines

Developed by the Inria Hemera initiative 2010-2014 https://www.grid5000.fr/mediawiki/index.php/Hemera

See documentation on http://vm5k.readthedocs.org

Requirements

The module requires:

Installation

Connect on a Grid‘5000 frontend and type the following commands:

export http_proxy="http://proxy:3128"
export https_proxy="https://proxy:3128"
easy_install --user execo
easy_install --user vm5k

Add .local/bin to your path and run vm5k !

People

Contributors

  • Laurent Pouilloux
  • Daniel Balouek-Thomert
  • Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas
  • Flavien Quesnel
  • Jonathan Pastor
  • Takahiro Hirofuchi
  • Adrien Lèbre

Grid‘5000 technical support

  • Matthieu Imbert
  • Simon Delamare