- get access to the MCS login nodes (login.mcs.anl.gov) y
ou should be able to access balewski@nimbus.magellancloud.org. That is the head node for the nimbus magellan cloud. In your home directory you will find the subdirectory nimbus-cloud-client-018. Our cloud client is installed there. Try the following commands to make sure you installation is sane:
cd nimbus-cloud-client-018
./bin/cloud-client.sh --list
you should see the following out put:
Image 'ubuntu10.10' Read only
Modified: Dec 9 2010 @ 15:57 Size: 2147483648 bytes (~2048 MB)
That is a common image to get users started. You can run it with the following command:
./bin/cloud-client.sh -run --name ubuntu10.10 --hours 1
You should see something that indicates the hostname/IP of the new VM. Try sshing into it as root to access the new VM.
Let me know of any problems or any help that you need.
John