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                Rocks cluster Sidewinder (6.2) installation stuff (virtualbox with Ubuntu 15 as host)
              
          
    Rocks cluster Sidewinder (6.2) Virtualbox

Installation in Nutshell


Download jumbo DVD iso from rocks website
Setup VM in virtualbox:

Frontend node: Linux/Redhat x64 with min 1GB RAM, 30GB HDD, 1 optical drive (with rocks dvd iso mounted), 1 Internal Network interface (any name), 1 NAT, boot from optical drive
Compute node(s): Linux/Redhat x64 min 1GB RAM, 30GB HDD, 1 Internal Network interface (same name as frontend-node), boot from network


Start frontend-node VM, type build when prompted
Select CD/DVD based rolls, at least os, kernel, base. Some recommended rolls are web server + ganglia (monitoring) and hpc (OpenMPI and MPICH)