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Readme for the vm5k package

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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:

• execo 2.4, http://execo.gforge.inria.fr/

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