On Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python-dev libssl-dev python-pip git-core libxml2-dev libxslt-dev pkg-config libffi-dev libpq-dev libmysqlclient-dev
Grab the code from GitHub:
git clone https://github.com/openstack/nova.git
cd nova
The unit tests will run by default inside a virtualenv in the .venvdirectory. Run the unit tests by doing:
./run_tests.sh
The first time you run them, you will be asked if you want to create a virtualenvironment (hit “y”):
No virtual environment found...create one? (Y/n)
You can manually install the virtual environment instead of havingrun_tests.sh do it for you:
python tools/install_venv.py
This will install all of the Python packages listed in therequirements.txt file and also those listed in thetest-requirements.txt file into your virtualenv. There willalso be some additional packages (pip, setuptools, greenlet) that areinstalled by the tools/install_venv.py file into the virutalenv.
If all goes well, you should get a message something like this:
Nova development environment setup is complete.
To activate the Nova virtualenv for the extent of your current shell sessionyou can run:
$ source .venv/bin/activate
Or, if you prefer, you can run commands in the virtualenv on a case by casebasis by running:
$ tools/with_venv.sh <your command>