Do you want to play with cloud software on your own machines?
Some people have been working to package the current OpenStack version “Folsom” for openSUSE (tested on 12.2) and add scripts to configure it into a working state.
You need 2GB of RAM and 3+ GB of free disk space under /var/lib/
Then you do
wget https://raw.github.com/SUSE-Cloud/automation/master/scripts/jenkins/qa_openstack.sh
export cloudsource=openstackfolsom ; bash -x qa_openstack.sh
This is a script we use for continous integration testing, but it is as useful to setup a simple environment for development, testing or demoing.
Folsom packages are still rather rough and might see some change over the coming weeks.
If you want the older stable version, you can use the above snippet with cloudsource=openstackessex
however, there are some known bugs in that old version and backports are really hard.
Soon there will be Grizzly packages upcoming. More is to come…
P.S. To interact with your cloud, you need credentials, which are automatically sourced from /etc/bash.bashrc.local (it is admin:openstack) and then you use commands like
nova list and glance image-list
but there is also a web-interface that allows you to do most actions in a browser – even VNC, if you use KVM instead of the default lxc.
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