Documentation sugests using proprietary VMWare Fusion
Bug #1292413 reported by
Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Sahara |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Documentation only explains how to set up devstack on VMWare Fusion. This is proprietry and quite expensive product. Moreover it only runs on Mac OS X. It might be a barrier for contributors. Instead, there should be documentation for some more universal product like VirtualBox - available on all platforms, open source and free.
Changed in sahara: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in sahara: | |
importance: | Wishlist → Undecided |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
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I'm the author of that document and I think it should be removed. Sahara docs shouldn't be a place to document Devstack installation and configuration.
But, there is a reason we used VMWare Fusion - it's the only virtualisation software (in pair with other VMWare products for Linux and Windows) which supports nested virtualisation. Nested virtualisation is crucial for running Hadoop jobs inside nested VMs.
So, there should just be a note about virtualisation platforms capable of running Sahara/Hadoop loads inside nested VMs.