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Virtual Box
You can use Ops to run your local nanos in Virtual Box. You can use Ops CLI to create a .vdi image and launch a virtual machine with the image.
Pre-requisites
1.Install Virtual Box in your machine.
2.Ensure VBoxManage is in your shell path.
Note: If you are using WSL you may need to create a symlink in Windows filesystem with the name VBoxManage pointing to VBoxManage.exe.
Image Operations
Create Image
You can create an image with the following command.
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$ ops image create <elf_file> -i <image_name> -t vbox
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For creating an image using a particular package, you need to provide the package name to ops image create command with -p option.
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$ ops image create -c config.json -p node_v14.2.0 -a ex.js -i <image_name> -t vbox
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The Ops CLI will store the image in the directory vdi-images inside Ops default directory.
List Images
You can list existing images with ops image list -t vbox.
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$ ops image list -t vbox
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|                 UUID                 |          NAME          | STATUS |  SIZE   |    CREATEDAT     |
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+--------------------------------------+------------------------+--------+---------+------------------+
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| 01071a8d-eb59-49c1-aa69-028f84cc6d06 | nanos-main-image       | online | 10.0 GB | 3 days ago       |
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+--------------------------------------+------------------------+--------+---------+------------------+
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| 01c5bd28-aa19-4883-a4c9-31f3ff9fd061 | nanos-node-image       | online | 10.0 GB | 1 month ago      |
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+--------------------------------------+------------------------+--------+---------+------------------+
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| 01cd3190-df52-47e8-b5c3-b05f7107819e | nanos-server-image     | online | 10.0 GB | 1 year ago       |
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+--------------------------------------+------------------------+--------+---------+------------------+
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Delete Image
ops image delete <imagename> can be used to delete an image.
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$ ops delete image nanos-main-image -t vbox
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Instance Operations
Create Instance
After creating the image, we can launch a virtual machine from an existing image.
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$ ops instance create <image_name> -t vbox
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List Instances
You can list the virtual machines running on Virtual Box using ops instance list command.
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$ ops instance list -t vbox
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|                  ID                  |          NAME          | STATUS  | PRIVATE IPS |               PUBLIC IPS                |
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| 00d954cc-9603-43a0-915b-5c2ae75772b6 | nanos-main-image-15566 | running | 10.8.3.63   | 209.151.144.166                         |
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+--------------------------------------+------------------------+---------+-------------+-----------------------------------------+
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Get Logs for Instance
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Delete Instance
ops instance delete command can be used to delete a virtual machine.
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$ ops instance delete my-instance-running -t vbox
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