[orbit-user] sandbox 6 and 7

[Ivan Seskar]

Hi Benoit,

As for the tutorials, again the web site is desperately out of date but there is a simple remedy: http://mytestbed.net - please keep in mind that there are two versions of omf installed:

  "omf"	: invokes omf version 5.1 (or 5.0 in some cases)
  "omf-5.2"	: invokes omf version 5.2

Under the hood the two version are quite different and images are not interchangeable (to make a long story short, you need at least to make sure you have a 5.2 agent running on the node); the other obvious difference is the image location (5.1 images are stored at repository:/export/orbit/image , while 5.2 images are stored at repository:/export/omf/omf-images-5.2).

Hope this helps.

Ivan.

-----Original Message-----
From: orbit-user-bounces at orbit-lab.org [mailto:orbit-user-bounces at orbit-lab.org] On Behalf Of Benoit PAPILLAULT
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 4:39 PM
To: Orbit user discussion mailing list
Subject: Re: [orbit-user] sandbox 6 and 7

Ivan Seskar a écrit :
> Hi Changbin,
>
> Yes we are slowly replacing consoles (sb2, sb5, sb6 , sb7 and sb9) and all new machines are running Ubuntu; and yes the old alias "orbit" has been replaced with "omf" - we are in the process of updating the documentation to reflect the changes. gw is also about to be replaced with a new machine and will be switched to Ubuntu (with the latest and greatest collection of software including emacs :-) )
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
> Ivan.
>   
I am a new user at Orbit-Lab. I'm jumping in this thread to offer my 
modest help for updating the online documentation (as time permits). In 
fact, I tried the various tutorial on sb1 this week-end and ... failed. 
Apparently, the tutorial are not fully up-to-date (I don't know where 
the results of the experiments goes and did not found the expected mysql 
database).

Just to give feedback on my first experiment on sanbox1 :

What I have succeeded is :
- switch on/off both machine (pretty cool)
- use the telnet service to access console (pretty cool to see the 
BIOS/PXE/GRUB...)
- use the imaging tool
- install a custom kernel (2.6.34-rc3-wl with ath5k compiled by myself!)

What I failed :
- use the OML framework to start an experiment and get results.

Regards,
Benoit

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