Cassilda

an UML/QEMU/XEN image generator, runner and testing framework

Installation and usage

Download

Get last version from github:.

git clone git://github.com/odkq/Cassilda.git

Requirements

• Python 2.6+ http://www.python.org
• netaddr 0.7.4+ https://github.com/drkjam/netaddr
• pexpect 2.3+ http://www.noah.org/wiki/pexpect
• uml-utilities 20070815+ http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
• bridge-utils http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bridge
• kvm http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page
• debootstrap 1.0.26+ http://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap
• apt-cacher-ng http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/
• python-paramiko http://www.lag.net/paramiko/

To install all dependencies in Debian Wheezy (7.0), do:

apt-get install python python-netaddr python-pexpect \
uml-utilities bridge-utils debootstrap apt-cacher-ng qemu-kvm \
python-paramiko

Installation

Cassilda uses the regular distutils setup.py, install with:

sudo python ./setup.py install

It will put the cassilda python modules wherever your system-wide python installation needs it, and the documentation/examples in /usr/share/doc/Cassilda

Usage

Cassilda is a library, you use it's API to build your own tools. In lieu of documentation, you can see an example in examples/base.py

After installing cassilda, run it as root and a kvm debian image will be built and run.