Installing Cloud Foundry on DevStack

Introduction

We run DevStack on the following:

Mac Pro (Late 2013)
OS X 10.10.1
VirtualBox 4.3.20
Fedora 20 Server

Disk/RAM/CPU Requirements

We use this blog post for guidance and decide to use the following configuration:

3 CPUs
52 GiB RAM
750 GB disk

Network Allocation

"Public" IP range
- Subnet: 10.9.7.0/24
- Gateway: 10.9.7.1
- DNS: 8.8.8.8
- Fedora host: fedora.os.nono.com → 10.9.7.10

Create VirtualBox VM

VirtualBox → Machine → New
- Name: Cloud Foundry on DevStack
- Type: Linux
- Version: Fedora (64 bit)
- click Continue
Memory Size 53248 MB; click Continue
click Create (virtual hard drive)
click Continue (VDI)
click Continue (Dynamically allocated)
File location and size: 750.00 GB
- click the Folder icon and browse to a directory that has 750GB Free Space
- Save As: Cloud Foundry on DevStack
- click Save
click Create

Configure VirtualBox VM

click Settings icon
- System → Processor
  - Processor(s): 3
- click Storage tab
  - select Empty DVD drive
  - click the DVD icon next to IDE Secondary
  - select Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file…
  - browse to and select the recently-downloaded Fedora image (e.g. Fedora-20-x86_64-DVD.iso)
  - click OK

Virtual Box Configuration