Description

OpenJDK cookbook is intended to assist in creating a VM box for building OpenJDK from source code. Currently this chef recipe supports Ubuntu 12.04 only (Guest OS).

More work needs to be done to provide support to muliple OS. Please feel free to report for errors/bugs, suggestion/improvements and will try to improve this recipe.

Instructions below are only available for Linux and MacOS at the moment, but such a VM box can be built on any OS of choice that support the below programs and instructions.

Requirements

Installed VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/) - The build was done with version 4.2.8
Installed Vagrant (http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/installation/index.html)
These instructions expect a 64-bit CPU running a 64-bit OS for a successful build.

Known Issue on Mac OS

The below Vagrant file entry causes the vagrant startup process to fail under MacOS Snow Leopard and MacOS Lion:

     vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "4096"]

This issue is resolved by commenting out this line (Ruby commenting convention: #) and re-running:

     vagrant up

Usage

Follow the below instructions in order to able spin off an VM running Ubuntu (Guest OS) with OpenJDK sources on it, running on the below Host OSes.

Linux / MacOS

Download least version of Virtualbox 4.3.xx (or higher) for your Host OS.
Download least version of Virtualbox 1.4.xx (or higher) for your Host OS.
Finally clone the repo from https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-chef-build:

git clone https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-chef-build
Install chef as vagrant's plugin by running the below command:

sudo vagrant plugin install vagrant-chef-apply [sudo] password for xxxxxxx: Installing the 'vagrant-chef-apply' plugin. This can take a few minutes... Installed the plugin 'vagrant-chef-apply (0.0.1)'!
Check contents of the cookbooks folders and subfolders, both apt and openjdk-build should be populated with files.
In case the cookbooks/apt folder is empty then do the below from within the openjdk-chef-build folder:

rm -fr cookbooks/apt git rm --cached cookbooks/apt git submodule add git@github.com:opscode-cookbooks/apt.git cookbooks/apt

If this still does not download the contents, do the below:

cd cookbooks
git clone git@github.com:opscode-cookbooks/apt.git

Bring up the box (first time) by running the below command, which should create and install necessary components:

vagrant up

And you should see the below, give it some time (a hour or so)....

###################################################
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
.
.
.

Running chef-solo...
stdin: is not a tty
[2014-01-06T21:28:54+00:00] INFO: *** Chef 11.4.0 ***

[2014-01-06T23:05:45+00:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 5810.238662085 seconds
[2014-01-06T23:05:45+00:00] INFO: Running report handlers
[2014-01-06T23:05:45+00:00] INFO: Report handlers complete
[2014-01-06T23:05:45+00:00] DEBUG: Exiting
###################################################

Now you can ssh to the VM by running:

vagrant ssh or vagrant ssh -p -- -l openjdk
Update the VM by running the below command:

sudo apt-get update
Shutdown the box using the below command:

vagrant halt
To start all over again, destroy the box created and restart by starting vagrant again

vagrant destroy vagrant up
Login and password details login: openjdk password: openjdk

Once the box is ready to use in future you can start up the Ubuntu VM with vagrant using:

'vagrant up'

In case a process has been abruptly terminated or wish to continuing a executing recipes on an active vagrant machine, do the below:

'vagrant provision'

Vagrant is running chef cookbooks recipies to perform following tasks :

perform system update and upgrade (sudo apt-get update)
download all the necessary packages and modules to be able to house OpenJDK sources
download and configure OpenJDK sources
build the OpenJDK sources (done as part openjdk-chef-build recipe)
download JTReg binaries
setting the environment variables
optional script to run JTReg tests

Note

Currently Vagrant is using two recipes:

"openjdk-build" - the original content of this repository
"apt" - git submodule to perform system updates
'git submodule add git@github.com:opscode-cookbooks/apt.git cookbooks/apt'
So far the above have been tested on Host OSes: Ubuntu 12.04, MacOS Lion, MacOS Snow Leopard and Mavericks.

Additional resources

Ready to use vagrant boxes: http://www.vagrantbox.es/