vmware_fusion.md

Pre-requisite: Fission gem installed and configured, including a ~/.fissionrc that points to the vmrun executable and where virtual machines can be found. Example .fissionrc file (it's YAML):

vm_dir: "/Directory/containing/my/.vmwarevm/files/"
vmrun_bin: "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmrun"

You can then use the following arguments in the node configuration:

• hypervisor: fusion tells us to enable this feature for this host. This is required.
• snapshot: <name>, where is the snapshot name to revert to. This is required.

We'll try and match up the hostname with a VM of the same name. Note that the VM is expected to be pre-configured for running acceptance tests: a vanilla OS install with internet access and password-less SSH access for root is all that is required.

There are a few additional options available in your configuration file. Each host section can now use:

• vmname: This is useful if the hostname of the VM doesn't match the name of the .vmwarevm file on disk. The alias should be something fission can load.

Basic VMWare fusion hosts file

HOSTS:
  pe-debian6:
    roles:
      - master
      - agent
    platform: debian-6-i386
    vmname: super-awesome-vm-name
    hypervisor: fusion
    snapshot: acceptance-testing-5

Diagnostics

When using hypervisor fusion, we'll log all the available VM names and for each host we'll log all the available snapshot names.