Installing CentOS 5.4 and Eucalyptus 1.6.2

We first visited CentOS web site to get the installation media. From there we navigated to a nearby mirror and downloaded the 6 CDs required to install CentOS 5.4. A hat tip to the CS Club of Waterloo.

We installed CentOS in two machines: homer and maggie. Both installations included the packages Server and Virtualization (the latter provides the Xen hypervisor).

We then installed Eucalyptus in both machines following this tutorial. Up to this point, no major difficulties. homer is running the CLC, the CC, the SC and Walrus. maggie is running a NC.

Next step: check that the controllers can talk to each other and instantiate a few VMs. =)