First, from a terminal on the Front-End enter:

sudo apt-get install opennebula

On each Compute Node install:

sudo apt-get install opennebula-node

In order to copy SSH keys, the oneadmin user will need to have a password. On each machine execute:

sudo passwd oneadmin

Next, copy the oneadmin user's SSH key to the Compute Nodes, and to the Front-End's authorized_keys file:

sudo scp /var/lib/one/.ssh/id_rsa.pub oneadmin@node01:/var/lib/one/.ssh/authorized_keys
sudo scp /var/lib/one/.ssh/id_rsa.pub oneadmin@node02:/var/lib/one/.ssh/authorized_keys
sudo sh -c "cat /var/lib/one/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> /var/lib/one/.ssh/authorized_keys"

The SSH key for the Compute Nodes needs to be added to the /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts file on the Front-End host. To accomplish this ssh to each Compute Node as a user other than oneadmin. Then exit from the SSH session, and execute the following to copy the SSH key from ~/.ssh/known_hosts to /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts:

sudo sh -c "ssh-keygen -f .ssh/known_hosts -F node01 1>> /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts"
sudo sh -c "ssh-keygen -f .ssh/known_hosts -F node02 1>> /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts"

This allows the oneadmin to use scp, without a password or manual intervention, to deploy an image to the Compute Nodes.

On the Front-End create a directory to store the VM images, giving the oneadmin user access to the directory:

sudo mkdir /var/lib/one/images
sudo chown oneadmin /var/lib/one/images/

Finally, copy a virtual machine disk file into /var/lib/one/images. You can create an Ubuntu virtual machine using vmbuilder, see the section called “JeOS and vmbuilder” for details.

The OpenNebula Cluster is now ready to be configured, and virtual machines added to the cluster.

From a terminal prompt enter:

onehost create node01 im_kvm vmm_kvm tm_ssh
onehost create node02 im_kvm vmm_kvm tm_ssh

Next, create a Virtual Network template file named vnet01.template:

NAME            = "LAN"
TYPE            = RANGED
BRIDGE          = br0
NETWORK_SIZE    = C
NETWORK_ADDRESS = 192.168.0.0

Using the onevnet utility, add the virtual network to OpenNebula:

onevnet create vnet01.template

Now create a VM Template file named vm01.template:

NAME   = vm01
CPU    = 0.5
MEMORY = 512

OS      = [ BOOT   = hd ]

DISK   = [
  source   = "/var/lib/one/images/vm01.qcow2",
  target   = "hda",
  readonly = "no" ]

NIC    = [ NETWORK="LAN" ]

GRAPHICS = [type="vnc",listen="127.0.0.1",port="-1"]

Start the virtual machine using onevm:

onevm submit vm01.template

Use the onevm list option to view information about virtual machines. Also, the onevm show vm01 option will display more details about a specific virtual machine.