• catch up on administrivia
• book munich
• ensure pay
• mess about in devstack
• experiment with cloudenvy
• read about ironic for gathering samples

The cloudenvy and devstack-vagrant experiments are slow going: the former because the lab vm host is being slow enough to cause network timeouts, the latter because my network is slow. Is making it quite hard to make significant progress on understanding.

A redhat + ceilometer guy I'd like to make devstack-vagrant work on fedora with Mongo, but of course it is based on Ubuntu where mongo is old. So going to try to make my own base box.

Building a useful fedora base box:

• need to install puppet
• need to yum update
• need automatic guest additions
• various minor changes in puppet files (to be committed eventually)
• different directory permissions mean the git clone struggles (see eventual diff)
• made a patch to devstack

To make it better:

• start with a better base fedora: the current one is running X! You can switch to not X with sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target but that leaves all the stuff already installed, better to not install in the first place.
• could find a qcow somewhere and convert it to virtualbox with qemu-img.