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Expand Up @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ This project is work in progress, so feedback and suggestions are
welcome. Please use the
[issues](http://github.com/tbatchelli/vmfest/issues) for this purpose.

[vbox]: http://www.virtualbox.org
[vbox]: http://www.virtualbox.org
[palletops]: http://palletops.com

# Release Notes
Expand All @@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ instructions below are for using the new XPCOM communication
subsystem, and hence, are shorter :). You can still find how to setup
the webservices communication at the end of this page.

__WARNING: the java/XPCOM bridge sems to be broken for Debian Weezy
and Ubuntu 12.x__
(see [ticket #11232](https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/11232) for
more details. You'll get a nice segmentation fault in those cases. In
these cases, please revert to the WebServices configuration listed at
__WARNING: the java/XPCOM bridge sems to be broken for Debian Weezy
and Ubuntu 12.x__
(see [ticket #11232](https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/11232) for
more details. You'll get a nice segmentation fault in those cases. In
these cases, please revert to the WebServices configuration listed at
the end of this page.

## Install Virtualbox 4.2.x
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## Create VMs programmatically

VMFest has a data oriented API to create VMs. There are two data
structures needed to create a VM: one describing the hardware
structures needed to create a VM: one describing the hardware
and the other one describing the image that the VM will boot off.

### Hardware specs

You can define every hardware aspect of a VM as a hash map. Consider
this map:
this map:

```clojure
{:memory-size 512
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ called uuid:

A new VM is created from a hardware spec and an image spec. The
following will create a VM on the Virtualbox host defined by
`my-server`.
`my-server`.

```clojure
(def my-machine
(instance my-server "my-vmfest-vm"
{:uuid "/Users/tbatchelli/imgs/vmfest-Debian-6.0.2.1-64bit-v0.3.vdi"}
(def my-machine
(instance my-server "my-vmfest-vm"
{:uuid "/Users/tbatchelli/imgs/vmfest-Debian-6.0.2.1-64bit-v0.3.vdi"}
{:memory-size 512
:cpu-count 1
:network [{:attachment-type :host-only
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ described above, and you can add your own too.

When creating a new VM, you can reference these specs by key instead
of passing the specs. For example, in my laptop, I can instantiate the
exact same VM as above with:
exact same VM as above with:

```clojure
(instance my-server "my-vmfest-vm" :debian-6.0.2.1-64bit-v0.3 :micro)
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(def names ["slave-1" "slave-2" ... "slave-N" "master"])

;; instantiate the VMs
(def machines
(map (fn [name]
(def machines
(map (fn [name]
(instance my-server % :debian-6.0.2.1-64bit-v0.3 :micro))
names))

;; start all the VMs
(map start machines)
```

# Low Level API
# Low Level API

There is a low-level API to program VirtualBox from Cloure. This API
eliminates some of the complexity of connecting to VirtualBox, but
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -362,10 +362,10 @@ Start the VirtualBox server (`vboxwebsrv`) by issuing the following on the shell
$ vboxwebsrv -t0
```

Finally, disable login authorization in virtualbox server
(you'll only need to do it this one time):
Finally, disable login authorization in virtualbox server
(you'll only need to do it this one time):

```
```
$ VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null
```

Expand All @@ -380,13 +380,13 @@ suggestions, or just want to chat, here are your options:
- Create a new issue (feat request, bug, etc.) on
[vmfest's github repo][vmfest-issues]
- Tweet [@palletops][palletops-tweet]

# License

Copyright © 2013 Antoni Batchelli and Hugo Duncan

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.

[pallet-ml]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/pallet-clj

[freenode]: http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml
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