Amahi 8 Cloud

Install Amahi 8 using fedora 21 base cloud image inside a virtual machine

• Download base raw image from here
  • http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/21/Cloud/Images/x86_64/Fedora-Cloud-Base-20141203-21.x86_64.raw.xz

• Create a vdi image from the archived raw image

xz -d Fedora-Cloud-Base-20141203-21.x86_64.raw.xz
VBoxManage convertdd Fedora-Cloud-Base-20141203-21.x86_64.raw Fedora-Cloud-Base-20141203-21.x86_64.vdi --format VDI

• Create a virtual machine with this VDI and make sure network is in bridged mode

• create a folder named config and change into it

mkdir config
cd config

• Create a file: config/meta-data with the following content

instance-id: Amahi01
local-hostname: amahi-01

• Create a file: config/user-data with the following content

#cloud-config
password: AmahiHDA
chpasswd: { expire: False }
ssh_pwauth: True

• Convert the config folder to ISO image

genisoimage -output amahi01-cidata.iso -volid cidata -joliet -rock user-data meta-data

• Attached image to the VBOX
• Start the virtual machine and login with:
  • username: fedora
  • password: AmahiHDA
• Install Amahi 8

sudo su -
rpm -Uvh http://f21.amahi.org/noarch/hda-release-6.9.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum -y install mariadb-libs mariadb-server
yum -y install hda-ctl hda-platform
hda-install YOUR-INSTALL-CODE

Issues

• No internet connection
• Restarting network service restores internet connection
• The IP address of the HDA is not the one from the amahi dashboard.