From a172dcdc7a0936dffe0b0b32bab2e7ff55a0dd0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David C Kennedy Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 14:42:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update README for xenial Documented workaround for readonly file system error in virtualbox. Change-Id: I604dadcebce8a04db47eec57688395650dfe9626 --- devstack/README.md | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/devstack/README.md b/devstack/README.md index d5cd75dda..b8c9f84cf 100644 --- a/devstack/README.md +++ b/devstack/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ # Monasca DevStack Plugin -The Monasca DevStack plugin currently only works on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty). -More Linux Distributions will be supported in the future. +The Monasca DevStack plugin works on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) though note issues and workarounds noted below under 'Using Vagrant' if using a virtualbox vm image. Running the Monasca DevStack plugin requires a machine with 10GB of RAM. @@ -72,6 +71,13 @@ To enable Horizon and the Monasca UI add `horizon` Vagrant can be used to deploy a VM with Devstack and Monasca running in it using the Vagrantfile. After installing Vagrant, just run the command `vagrant up` as usual in the `../monasca-api/devstack` directory. +N.B. If you are running with virtualbox you may find that the `./stack.sh` fails with the filesystem becoming read only. There is a work around: + + 1. vagrant up --no-provision && vagrant halt + 2. open virtualbox gui + 3. open target vm settings and change storage controller from SCSI to SATA + 4. vagrant up + ## Enable Vertica as the Metrics DB using Vagrant Monasca supports using both InfluxDB and Vertica for storing metrics and alarm state history.