cloudmesh_vagrant - A real simple interface to virtualbox via vagrant
Project description
Virtualbox provides a vonvenient way to manage virtual machines on a local computer. Graphical user interfaces, a commandline client, but also vagrant exist to access them. However we noticed that we often only need a very small subset to start a vm and to tear it down. Remembering the interfaces is difficult. Previously we developed a cloudmesh_client that has an easy to remember interface. We leverage from this experience and introduce a very easy to remember commandline client. At the same time we also allow a simpl python API to manage virtual machines on virtualbox. We use vagrant internally. However vagrants focus on directories and Vagrantfiles in a bit inconvenient also fo us, so we provided wrappers and utelize the design of vagrant to our advantage while only exposing the needed functionality.
Manual Page
Usage:
cm-vbox version
cm-vbox image list [--format=FORMAT]
cm-vbox vm list [--format=FORMAT]
cm-vbox vm delete NAME
cm-vbox create NAME ([--memory=MEMORY]
[--image=IMAGE]
[--script=SCRIPT] | list)
cm-vbox vm boot NAME ([--memory=MEMORY]
[--image=IMAGE]
[--script=SCRIPT] | list)
Source Code
github.com/cloudmesh/vagrant
Install
mkdir cloudmesh cd cloudmesh git clone https://github.com/cloudmesh/vagrant cd vagrant python setup.py install
Examples
Listing vms
python v.py vbox vm list
name |
state |
id |
provider |
directory |
w12 w1 |
running running |
47347b4 db913dd |
virtualbox virtualbox |
~/w12 ~/w1 |
Listing images
python v.py vbox image list +—————–+————+————–+ | name | provider | date | +—————–+————+————–+ | ubuntu/trusty64 | virtualbox | 20160406.0.0 | +—————–+————+————–+
Booting vms
python v.py vbox vm boot w12
which takes an ubuntu image as default
Destroy a vm
python v.py vbox vm delete w12
which deletes the specified vm
Create a Vagrantfile
python v.py vbox create w12
creates a Vagrantfile in ./w12/Vagrantfile
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Source Distribution
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