OpenStack Nova provides a cloud computing fabric controller, supporting a wide variety of virtualization technologies, including KVM, Xen, LXC, VMware, and more. In addition to its native API, it includes compatibility with the commonly encountered Amazon EC2 and S3 APIs.
The nova-fairness service adds a resource reallocation capability to nova compute that allows it to dynamically enforce fairness among cloud users during VM runtime by collecting runtime usage information of all VMs and calculating a resulting heaviness per user which is in turn used to prioritize users with lighter workloads by setting CPU shares, RAM soft-limits, disk weights and network priorities in their favor.
To set up a development environment to work on the code in this repository, follow the installations steps outlined below:
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/savf/novafairness.git
Install virtualenv then run the install_venv.py Python script under tools:
sudo easy_install virtualenv
python novafairness/tools/install_venv.py
To use the virtualenv in PyCharm, go to PyCharm -> Preferences -> Project -> Project Interpreter and click on the cog. Choose "Add Local" and navigate to novafairness/.venv/bin/python_2.7.