Need help with setting up MonkeyBox for Cloudstack development

[sandeeplocharla]

Hello,

I’m trying to setup Cloudstack Management server by building the latest code on my IntelliJ IDE on Mac and am trying to setup a Monkeybox environment on an Ubuntu 22.04 VM. I was able to install Monkeybox but unfortunately when I do ‘mbx list’, its not listing any templates though I could see 'kvm-el7.qcow2’ in the folder '/export/monkeybox/templates/‘. Is there any good reference that I could follow to setup my dev environment and resolve this issue that I’m facing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[rohityadavcloud]

This requires x86 & KVM/Linux env; @sandeeplocharla is tour Mac env on x86 or arm64/M-series chip? mbx isn't supported to run on Mac OS.

[sandeeplocharla]

I have installed monkeybox on an Ubuntu 24 machine and it was not a complete installation. It stopped midway as it was trying to fetch some old python packages which seemed to be deprecated, so I had to manually install cloudstack agent. Whilst that difficulty, I've also setup wireguard and was able to reach the mbx vm from my macbook. Later when I try to add zone, it fails at 'Add Host' complaining 'Server resources not found', I could see that around that time of adding host, cloudstack agent keeps restarting. Somehow if I manually add 'host' IP in agent.properties and restart sometimes it goes through and gets stuck after Primary Storage creation and I could see in vmops.log that SSVM couldn't get created.

This is increasingly becoming difficult. Is there any way that I could get know how other developers are working with cloudstack?

[rohityadavcloud]

@sandeeplocharla why don't you try a complete installation of mbx? Mbx env are stateless, if you've one failed -- try it again and specify an LTS repo in the mbx deploy for example:

mbx deploy your-env-name mbxt-kvm-el8 mbxt-kvm-el8 https://download.cloudstack.org/el/8/4.21

Check if you've the right network setup, before trying to deploy a zone -- your mbx env should be deployed successfully. Please try again and share step by step issues with logs and errors if they're related to mbx; otherwise discuss them on the CloudStack dev ML.

Lastly, this may not be for everyone -- you can also DIY your own dev-test env by doing all in a single VM setup and use your macbook for building/running the management server, or copy the built jars to your all-in-a-box VM.

[rohityadavcloud]

@sandeeplocharla on second reading did you try this on a VM (as initially you wrote you tried on "an Ubuntu 22.04 VM")? mbx isn't supposed to be in a nested env, it might work but I don't know anyone who've tried that.