INSTALL-devel-tldr

Following is the simplest way to get started with hacking HIL on Centos system. Assuming that

– You have a github account. – You have already forked the HIL repo. – You would be running HIL in a python virtual environment with SQLite DB as backend.

Install Dependencies:

yum install epel-release bridge-utils  gcc  httpd  ipmitool libvirt \
libxml2-devel  libxslt-devel  mod_wsgi net-tools python-pip python-psycopg2 \
python-virtinst python-virtualenv qemu-kvm telnet vconfig virt-install

Clone repo:

git clone https://github.com/**username**/hil
cd hil

Setting python virtual environment:

virtualenv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .[tests]

Configure HIL:

cp examples/hil.cfg.dev-no-hardware hil.cfg

Initialize database:

hil-admin db create

Start server:

hil-admin run-dev-server 5000

From a separate terminal window:

cd ~/hil/
virtualenv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .

Testing the setup:

hil list_nodes all

If the above command reports an empty list. HIL is successfully installed and ready for hacking.