A tutorial is a journey, a course build on experiments that can be replicated by the interested readers.
This tutorial aims to be a simple way to understand the potentialities of many virtualsquare projects.
A tutorial is not a manual and does not introduce all the available options and details of the tools. The reader can refer to the man pages for a detailed description of each command or API.
Users may download, configure and install all the software components they need to run the experiments here described. We have tried to make this phase as simple as possible providing two ways to set up a complete environment, i.e. two procedures to install all the virtualsquare tools needed.
The two scenarios are:
The Virtual machine approach is the less invasive option. It requires a hosting system powerful
enough to run kvm and an appropriate amount of available primary and secondary memory available.
The disadvantage of this approach is that the virtual services provided by VirtualSquare will be
implemented upon another layer of virtualizaition. This may impact on the performance.
The second option provides a more realistic environment for the exercises of the tutorial.
If you have one spare x86_64 host (or even two or more) than can be dedicated to the tutorial,
install on it (them) a clean Debian/Sid. There are scripts available to install all the Debian
packages and the Virtualsquare tools required for this Tutorial (as explained in the
"How to set up a host for the tutorials" page).
All the code of the projects will be installed at the latest version available on the development repositories.
We will do our best to update this tutorial to keep the consistency with the code. Should you find difficulties or errors, please let us know by mail, Thank you in advance.