Javi was unable to run the prebuilt VCT container template on his old Core Duo
box since the container is 64-bit and those CPUs (though supporting hardware
virtualization) are 32-bit only. He also had a hard time trying to build his
own container from scratch following the instructions in the wiki because of
the old version of the lxc package included in his Ubuntu install.
So I tried and built a 32-bit version of the VCT container in order to allow
more people to run it. The new container seems to work on my 64-bit machine,
and it would be great if someone could try it on a 32-bit machine. While
preparing the new container, Marc found and fixed a missing dependency in the
CONFINE controller software which made node firmware generation fail. Now
virtual nodes in a VCT container can be defined using the controller, then
created and started. :)
I also continued my work in the script that collects from the REST API the
information of tinc hosts in a testbed's management network and generates the
corresponding tinc host configuration files. The only part missing is the
check for the validity of the API server's SSL certificate. I'll publish the
script as soon as I find the appropriate repo. ;)