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GUSH Evaluation

GENI User Shell (GUSH) provides an execution management system that allows users to describe an experiment in an XML file, and Gush uses the xml file to locate, and prepare resources through interactions with GENI Clearinghouses. Gush tools run and clean-up an experiment. Gush software can be checked out from the GUSH SVN Repository using username guest and password is provided out of band. Software revisions used is 120.

Evaluation Time frame:

  • First Evaluation took place between March 15, 28, 2011. Software revisions 120 & 126.
  • Second Evaluation took place on April 11, 2011. Software version 136.
  • Third Evaluation took place April 19,2011. Software version 141.

Gush Findings

The first and second evaluation completed found environment and packaging issues, which were resolved by the third evaluation. The third version delivered a version that build without environment issues as documented. Additionally the third version (rev 141) was used to manage both PL and PG resources.

GUSH How-to

Third Evaluation (rev 141)

Using an ubuntu 10.04.01 VM was able to SVN check out and build gush as instructed in the enclosed README.txt. Also, a pre-build binary was installed and configured as part of the evaluation. Both approaches are captured in this section.

GUSH code

Checked out GUSH repository:

$ svn co http://gush.cs.williams.edu/svn/gush/trunk --username guest
$ cd trunk 

Using the newly updated README.tx was able to complete all steps as instructed:

* Prerequisites

This page describes the setup process required to use Gush with
PlanetLab. If you want to use Gush with ProtoGENI, please check out
the ProtoGeniExample page. 

Important: Before using Gush with  PlanetLab, you must obtain an
account/slice on PlanetLab. In addition, Gush requires the ability to
SSH to PlanetLab hosts without typing a passphrase. You should set up
an ssh-agent to provide password-free ssh access to PlanetLab
hosts. To handle the case where connecting to a new node brings up a
fingerprint verification question, add "StrictHostKeyChecking no" to
your ~/.ssh/config. We have found that PlanetLab keys change
periodically, and by not requiring StrictHostKeyChecking we encounter
less errors. 

** Library Dependencies

Gush is written in a mix of C++ and Python, and we intend for it to be
runnable on any UNIX-ish OS. That said, we have been using it
primarily with Linux and Mac OS. Compiling Gush can be challenging, so
please contact us if you experience too many problems. Gush requires
the following libraries: 

    * xmlrpc-c: libxmlrpc_client++, libxmlrpc_client, 
                libxmlrpc_server_abyss++, libxmlrpc_server++, 
                libxmlrpc_server_abyss, libxmlrpc_server, 
                libxmlrpc_abyss, libxmlrpc++, libxmlrpc, 
                libxmlrpc_util, libxmlrpc_xmlparse, libxmlrpc_xmltok 

      Note: lbxmlrpc-c3 will not work. xmlrpc-c must be installed, and
      to our knowledge, there is no debian package available. 

    * curl: libcurl
    * xml2: libxml2
    * zlib compression/decompression: libz
    * math: libm
    * openssl: libssl, libcrypto
    * dynamic linking: libdl
    * readline: libreadline
    * curses: libcurses
    * intl domain names: libidn
    * pthreads: libpthread 

The boost software package is also required, as well as lex and yacc
(we use flex and bison). 

Gush supports the latest version of the  GENI API. It uses a modified
version of the Omni client for communication with GENI aggregate
managers. More information about Omni can be found on the
OmniOverview page and on the  QuickStart guide. Since Omni is written
in Python, you must install a few Python libraries in addition to the
C++ libraries mentioned above. More details about configuring Python
and Omni are explained below. 

For reference, the following commands were used to install the
prerequisite software for Gush (including Omni) on a new machine with
a clean installation of Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop 64bit. 

$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server subversion keychain g++-4.1
autoconf2.59 makedepend emacs23
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++-4.1 /usr/bin/g++
$ sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev libboost-dev
xutils-dev flex bison libreadline-dev 
$ sudo apt-get install python-m2crypto python-dateutil
python-pyopenssl libxmlsec1 xmlsec1 libxmlsec1-openssl libxmlsec1-dev 
$ wget http://gush.cs.williams.edu/xmlrpc-c-1.16.34.tgz
$ tar xzf xmlrpc-c-1.16.34.tgz
$ cd xmlrpc-c-1.16.34
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

* Using Gush with PlanetLab

After installing the required libraries mentioned above, the first
step to using Gush is to download and compile the code. The code can
be obtained from the SVN repository linked to this site. You must
request an account before obtaining the code. Please email jeannie AT
cs dot williams dot edu for access to the repository. 

After obtaining the password, check out Gush using the following
command: 

$ svn co http://gush.cs.williams.edu/svn/gush/trunk --username guest 

Once the code has been downloaded, follow the instructions found in
README.txt to compile and install Gush. These instructions are
included here for your reference. 

NOTE: We have statically compiled versions of both the Gush and Gush
client binaries available. If you would like to skip the compilation
step (which can be tedious!), most users can simply use the statically
compiled binaries. We currently have binaries for 64 bit Ubuntu Linux
and an older 32 bit Ubuntu Linux. Other Linux distributions may be
able to run these binaries, but this has not been tested fully. To use
these binaries, download the appropriate tarball, untar it, and skip
ahead to the "Configuring Python for Omni" section below. 

64 bit Ubuntu Linux: gush-bin-64bit.tgz

32 bit Ubuntu Linux: gush-bin-32bit.tgz

** Compiling Gush

After downloading the code from SVN, follow the instructions below to
compile Gush. NOTE: This dynamically compiles Gush and the Gush
client. You can compile statically using the --with-static-gush and
--with-static-client compile flags. Statically compiling is usually a
bit more error prone because of some issues with curl. If static
compilation is required, we recommend installing  curl directly from
source and using --disable-ldap while compiling curl. For most
installations, dynamically compiling should be sufficient. 

$ cd gush/trunk
$ autoconf  (Make sure you use autoconf version 2.50 or higher.)
$ ./configure 
$ make dep
$ make

** Configuring Python for Omni

Python 2.6 is required. In addition, the following Python packages
must be installed:  M2Crypto,  dateutil,  OpenSSL, and  xmlsec1. 

According to the Omni  QuickStart page, the following installation
methods may be helpful: 

    * Debian / Ubuntu

      $ sudo apt-get install python-m2crypto python-dateutil
      python-pyopenssl libxmlsec1 xmlsec1 libxmlsec1-openssl
      libxmlsec1-dev  

    * Mac OS X (using MacPorts)

      $ sudo port install py26-m2crypto py26-dateutil py26-openssl
      xmlsec 
      $ cd /opt/local/lib
      $ sudo ln -s libxmlsec1-openssl.dylib libxmlsec1-openssl.so

You must configure the omni_config file before using Omni to connect
to any control frameworks. Details about omni_config can be found on
the  OmniOverview page and  OmniConfiguration page, but a sample
omni_config is included for reference in the Gush SVN repository. In
the sample omni_config file, your PlanetLab private key is stored in
the ~/.gcf directory. Note that this key cannot require a passphrase
to work with Gush. You can remove the passphrase of a private key
called keyin.pem, for example, by running: 

$ openssl rsa -in keyin.pem -out keyout.pem 

In this case, your omni_config file should include a reference to
keyout.pem. You can use the handle-geni.py script included with Gush
(in the helper-scripts directory) to automatically download your
certificate. This is also a good way to make sure you have Omni
correctly configured to talk to the PLC aggregate manager. To do this,
insert your PlanetLab slice name into the following command: 

$ helper-scripts/handle-geni.py -f plc -a
http://www.planet-lab.org:12346 sliverstatus <slice_name>  

If everything is working correctly, you should see something like
this: 

$ helper-scripts/handle-geni.py -f plc -a
http://www.planet-lab.org:12346 sliverstatus williams_gush  

INFO:omni:Loading config file omni_config
INFO:omni:Using control framework plc
Your certificate file (/home/jeannie/.gcf/plc.williams.jeannie.gid)
was not found, would you like me to download it for you to
/home/jeannie/.gcf/plc.williams.jeannie.gid? (Y/n)Y 
INFO:omni.sfa:SFA Registry: http://www.planet-lab.org:12345
INFO:omni.sfa:SFA Slice Manager: http://www.planet-lab.org:12347
INFO:omni:Sliver at http://www.planet-lab.org:12346:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gush>
        <slice name="williams_gush">
                <expires>2011-04-28 13:41:35</expires>
                <user name=""/>
                <node name="planetlab1.williams.edu"/>
                <node name="planetlab2.williams.edu"/>
                <node name="planetlab4.williams.edu"/>
                <node name="planetlab5.williams.edu"/>
                <node name="planetlab1.ucsd.edu"/>
                <node name="planetlab2.ucsd.edu"/>
                <node name="planetlab3.ucsd.edu"/>
                <node name="planetlab3.williams.edu"/>
        </slice>
</gush>

Please double check and make sure you have a valid key and
certificate, and that Omni is correctly configured before moving on! 

* Setting up Gush

You need three configuration files to use Gush: directory.xml,
gush.prefs, and omni_config. Details about omni_config are described
above. For most installations, gush.prefs should not need to be
modified. In directory.xml, you should modify the SVN version of the
file to include your slice name instead of williams_gush2. For the
port number, choose a port greater than 61000. Please change the port!
You probably should reserve a port on the PlanetLab port reservation
page. 

To summarize, you must modify directory.xml and omni_config before
Gush will work! 

That should be it! Let us know if you have problems. This is still a
work in progress! 

* Gush Commands

You can now start Gush with "./gush -P <port number>". Using the
default command-line user interface, Gush tries to act like a shell
(well, almost -- unfortunately many of the commands are asynchronous,
so you don't have the nice background/foreground distinction present
in normal shells). A very-partial list of those commands is listed
below; the official source is the "terminal_parser.y" YACC file. 


For instant gratification, try the following commands:

 $ ./gush -P 15555
   Start Gush on port 15555.
   Wait until Gush prints out two messages with your slice in it.
 gush> connect williams_gush@planetlab1.williams.edu 
   Connect to planetlab1.williams.edu.  This basically installs/starts
   the Gush client. 
   Wait until you see a message about the host joining the mesh.
 gush> info mesh
   Print out the current connection status of various hosts.
 gush> shell "ps aux"
   Run "ps aux" on every connected host, and print the results locally.
 gush> disconnect
   Disconnect hosts from the mesh--this kills remote clients.
 gush> quit

There are several example application description XML files in the
"tests" directory that can be used to experiment with different
aspects of Gush. 

* Additional Commands

 gush> load path: Read a project file.
 gush> run: Start executing the first experiment in the active project.
 gush> connect hostname: Start a Gush client on a remote host.
 gush> connect slice slice_name: Connect to all nodes assigned a slice.
 gush> connect pat <regex> <num>: Connect to <num> hosts that match
 the regular expression pattern <regex>. 
 gush> debug fail node <hostname>: Mark node as failed and find
 replacement (only during experiment). 
 gush> disconnect: Close all open connections.
 gush> disconnect hostname: Disconnect from a host.
 gush> info control: Print controller state information.
 gush> info nodes: Print summary information on all known nodes.
 gush> info node hostname: Print information about a node.
 gush> info slices: Print summary information on all known slices.
 gush> info slice slice_name: Print information about a slice.
 gush> info mesh: Print the mesh status (membership).
 gush> prefer <regex>: Tell Gush to increase preference value for
 nodes matching regex.  Nodes with higher preference values are used
 first. 
 gush> shell <quoted string>: Run the string as a shell command on all
 connected nodes. 
 gush> slice update slice_name: Get updated information for a slice
 from the PLC Database. 
 gush> slice list slice_name: Show information on a slice.
 gush> slice renew slice_name: Renew the given slice.
 gush> slice add slice_name regex: Assign hosts that match regex
 (regular expression) to the given slice. 
 gush> slice remove slice_name regex: Unassign hosts that match regex
 from the slice.  
 gush> quit: Quit Gush.

Since the installation is as documented in the README.txt it is not captured here. Following are captures showing the use of GUSH within PlanetLab and ProtoGENI. All captured commands were completed using the following omni_config:

[omni]
default_cf = pg
users = lnevers

# ---------- Users ----------
[lnevers]
urn = urn:publicid:IDN+pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com+user+lnevers
keys = ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

# ---------- Frameworks ----------
[plc]
type=sfa
authority=plc.bbn
user=plc.bbn.lnevers
cert=~/.gcf/plc.bbn.lnevers.gid
key=~/.gcf/lnevers.pkey
registry=http://www.planet-lab.org:12345
slicemgr=http://www.planet-lab.org:12347

[pg]
type = pg
ch = https://www.pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com:443/protogeni/xmlrpc/ch
sa = https://www.pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com:443/protogeni/xmlrpc/sa
cert = ~/.ssl/encrypted-cleartext.pem
key = ~/.ssl/encrypted-cleartext.pem

Request sliver status for an existing PlanetLab slice:

$ helper-scripts/handle-geni.py -f plc -a http://www.planet-lab.org:12346 sliverstatus bbn_gusheval
INFO:omni:Loading config file omni_config
INFO:omni:Using control framework plc
INFO:omni.sfa:SFA Registry: http://www.planet-lab.org:12345
INFO:omni.sfa:SFA Slice Manager: http://www.planet-lab.org:12347
INFO:omni:Sliver at http://www.planet-lab.org:12346:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gush>
        <slice name="bbn_gusheval">
                <expires>2011-05-29 11:01:47</expires>
                <user name=""/>
                <node name="miranda.planetlab.cs.umd.edu"/>
                <node name="node2.planetlab.mathcs.emory.edu"/>
                <node name="plnode-03.gpolab.bbn.com"/>
                <node name="osiris.planetlab.cs.umd.edu"/>
                <node name="node2.lbnl.nodes.planet-lab.org"/>
                <node name="node-2.mcgillplanetlab.org"/>
                <node name="dplanet2.uoc.edu"/>
                <node name="node2.planetlab.albany.edu"/>
                <node name="nis-planet2.doshisha.ac.jp"/>
                <node name="pl2.planet.cs.kent.edu"/>
                <node name="mtuplanetlab2.cs.mtu.edu"/>
                <node name="plnode-04.gpolab.bbn.com"/>
        </slice>
</gush>

Create a slice which was being authenticated by the pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com clearing house with compute resources from both PlanetLab and Emulab.

  1. Get a list of resources available:
    $ helper-scripts/handle-geni.py -n  -f pg -a https://www.emulab.net/protogeni/xmlrpc/am listresources >>emulab.txt
    INFO:omni:Loading config file omni_config
    INFO:omni:Using control framework pg
    INFO:omni:Resources at https://www.emulab.net/protogeni/xmlrpc/am:
    $ helper-scripts/handle-geni.py -n  -f pg -a http://www.planet-lab.org:12346 listresources >>planetlab-resources.txt
    INFO:omni:Loading config file omni_config
    INFO:omni:Using control framework pg
    INFO:omni:Resources at http://www.planet-lab.org:12346:
    
  2. Create rpsec based on available resources.
  1. Create a slice and get resources for both PlanetLab and Emulab:
    $ helper-scripts/handle-geni.py -f pg createslice myslice
    INFO:omni:Loading config file omni_config
    INFO:omni:Using control framework pg
    Created slice with Name myslice, URN urn:publicid:IDN+pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com+slice+myslice
    
    $ helper-scripts/handle-geni.py -n  -f pg -a https://www.emulab.net/protogeni/xmlrpc/am createsliver myslice emulab.rspec 
    INFO:omni:Loading config file omni_config
    INFO:omni:Using control framework pg
    Asked https://www.emulab.net/protogeni/xmlrpc/am to reserve resources. Result:
    <?xml version="1.0" ?>
    <rspec type="request" xmlns="http://www.protogeni.net/resources/rspec/0.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.protogeni.net/resources/rspec/0.1 http://www.protogeni.net/resources/rspec/0.1/request.xsd">  
       <node component_manager_urn="urn:publicid:IDN+emulab.net+authority+cm" component_manager_uuid="28a10955-aa00-11dd-ad1f-001143e453fe" component_urn="urn:publicid:IDN+emulab.net+node+pc485" component_uuid="1f7645ca-27e7-11df-8633-001143e453fe" exclusive="1" hostname="pc485.emulab.net" sliver_urn="urn:publicid:IDN+emulab.net+sliver+38450" sliver_uuid="3dd3588d-727b-11e0-b35d-001143e453fe" sshdport="22" virtual_id="geni1" virtualization_subtype="raw" virtualization_type="emulab-vnode">    
           <disk_image name="urn:publicid:IDN+emulab.net+image+emulab-ops//FEDORA10-STD"/>    
         <services>      <login authentication="ssh-keys" hostname="pc485.emulab.net" port="22" username="lnevers"/>    </services>  </node>  
       <node component_manager_urn="urn:publicid:IDN+emulab.net+authority+cm" component_manager_uuid="28a10955-aa00-11dd-ad1f-001143e453fe" component_urn="urn:publicid:IDN+emulab.net+node+pc499" component_uuid="a58f6b18-27e2-11df-8633-001143e453fe" exclusive="1" hostname="pc499.emulab.net" sliver_urn="urn:publicid:IDN+emulab.net+sliver+38451" sliver_uuid="3e6f903a-727b-11e0-b35d-001143e453fe" sshdport="22" virtual_id="geni2" virtualization_subtype="raw" virtualization_type="emulab-vnode">    
           <disk_image name="urn:publicid:IDN+emulab.net+image+emulab-ops//FEDORA10-STD"/>    
         <services>      <login authentication="ssh-keys" hostname="pc499.emulab.net" port="22" username="lnevers"/>    </services>  </node>  
    </rspec>
    
    $ helper-scripts/handle-geni.py -n  -f pg -a http://www.planet-lab.org:12346 createsliver myslice planet-rspec.txt 
    INFO:omni:Loading config file omni_config
    INFO:omni:Using control framework pg
    Asked http://www.planet-lab.org:12346 to reserve resources. Result: <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <RSpec type="SFA">
      <network name="plc">
        <site id="rit">
          <name>RIT</name>
          <node id="n11503">
            <hostname>"planet2.cs.rit.edu</hostname>
            <sliver />
          </node>
        </site>
        <site id="williams">
          <name>Williams College</name>
          <node id="n10860">
            <hostname>planetlab3.williams.edu</hostname>
            <sliver />
          </node>
        </site>
        <site id="bbn">
          <name>BBN Technologies</name>
          <node id="n13627">
            <hostname>plnode-03.gpolab.bbn.com</hostname>
            <sliver />
          </node>
        </site>
      </network>
    </RSpec>
    
    INFO:omni:Please run the omni sliverstatus call on your slice to determine your login name to PL resources
    
  1. Get slicer status and adjust slice expiration is possible:
    $ helper-scripts/handle-geni.py -f pg -a http://www.planet-lab.org:12346 sliverstatus   (syntax problem unresolved)
    $ helper-scripts/handle-geni.py -f pg -a https://www.emulab.net/protogeni/xmlrpc/am sliverstatus myslice
    INFO:omni:Loading config file omni_config
    INFO:omni:Using control framework pg
    INFO:omni:Sliver at https://www.emulab.net/protogeni/xmlrpc/am:
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <gush>
            <slice name="myslice">
                    <expires>2011-04-29 16:09:36</expires>
                    <user name=""/>
                    <node name="pc499.emulab.net"/>
                    <node name="pc485.emulab.net"/>
            </slice>
    </gush>
    $ helper-scripts/handle-geni.py -f pg -a https://www.emulab.net/protogeni/xmlrpc/am renewslice myslice  "2011-04-30 16:09:36"
    INFO:omni:Loading config file omni_config
    INFO:omni:Using control framework pg
    INFO:omni.protogeni:requesting new expiration '2011-04-30T16:09:36'
    Slice myslice now expires at 2011-04-30 16:09:36
    $ helper-scripts/handle-geni.py -f pg -a http://www.planet-lab.org:12346 renewslice myslice  "2011-04-30 16:09:36"
    INFO:omni:Loading config file omni_config
    INFO:omni:Using control framework pg
    INFO:omni.protogeni:requesting new expiration '2011-04-30T16:09:36'
    Slice myslice now expires at 2011-04-30 16:09:36
    

Using hte following directory.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gush>
    <resource_manager type="geni">
      <port_map slice="bbn_gusheval" port="61414"/>
    </resource_manager>
    <resource_manager type="geni-pg">
      <port_map slice="luisa" port="61666"/>
    </resource_manager>
</gush>

Note: "geni"=PlanetLab and "geni-pg"=ProtoGENI

  1. Used gush to manage nodes:
    $  ./gush -P 15555
    gush> Gush has learned about the slice bbn_gusheval.
    Gush has learned about the slice myslice.
    Updated information on the slice bbn_gusheval is available.
    Updated information on the slice myslice is available.
        gush> connect slice myslice
        Error: Unknown slice name.
        gush>   ??? 
    

GUSH Binary Package

Downloaded the 32 bit Ubuntu Linux Binaries named gush-bin-32bit.tgz. Note the package delivers several file at the top level, so created a directory to contain all files delivered as part of the package. Following procedure was used:

    $ mkdir gush-bin
    $ cd gush-bin
    $ wget http://gush.cs.williams.edu/gush-bin-32bit.tgz
    $ tar xvzf gush-bin-32bit.tgz 

Configurations were modified for define user specific details. The following directory.xml was put in place to access GENI resources:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gush>
    <resource_manager type="geni">
        <user>lnevers@bbn.com</user>
      <port_map slice="bbn_gusheval" port="61414"/>
    </resource_manager>
</gush>

The following omni_configuration was used:

[omni]
default_cf = pg
users = lnevers

# ---------- Users ----------
[lnevers]
urn = urn:publicid:IDN+pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com+user+lnevers
keys = ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

# ---------- Frameworks ----------
[pg]
type = pg
ch = https://www.pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com:443/protogeni/xmlrpc/ch
sa = https://www.pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com:443/protogeni/xmlrpc/sa
cert = ~/.ssl/encrypted-cleartext.pem
key = ~/.ssl/encrypted-cleartext.pem
verbose=false

To Be captured: Running gush on PlanetLab slice and on PG Slice.

    $  ./gush -P 15555
      gush> Gush has learned about the slice XXX.

First (rev 126) and Second (rev 136) Evaluations

Using a newly build Ubuntu 10.04.2 VM for this evaluation in order to verify all prerequisites. For first evaluation (rev 126), gush gush code was evaluated. During the evaluation found that a binary pages had been added. Binary package evaluation was completed with the latter version (rev 136).

GUSH Code

Had to installed SVN package (Subversion version 1.6.6) not explicitly stated as a prerequisite and then checked out the GUSH repo:

$ sudo apt-get install subversion
$ svn co http://gush.cs.williams.edu/svn/gush/trunk --username guest

No changes have been made to the README.txt since the last GUSH Evaluation:

Gush is written in a mix of C++ and Perl, and we intend for it to be runnable 
on any UNIX-ish OS. That said, we have been using it primarily with Linux 2.6.

Compiling Gush can be challenging, so please contact us if you experience
too many problems.  Gush requires the following libraries:

    * xmlrpc-c: libxmlrpc_client++, libxmlrpc_client, 
      libxmlrpc_server_abyss++, libxmlrpc_server++, 
      libxmlrpc_server_abyss, libxmlrpc_server, 
      libxmlrpc_abyss, libxmlrpc++, libxmlrpc, 
      libxmlrpc_util, libxmlrpc_xmlparse, libxmlrpc_xmltok
      
      Note: lbxmlrpc-c3 will not work. xmlrpc-c must be 
      installed, and to my knowledge, there is no debian package available.

    * curl: libcurl
    * xml2: libxml2
    * zlib compression/decompression: libz
    * math: libm
    * openssl (version 0.9.8e): libssl, libcrypto
    * dynamic linking: libdl
    * readline: libreadline
    * curses: libcurses
    * intl domain names: libidn
    * pthreads: libpthread (NOTE: NPTL recommended)

    The ares library (libares) for asynchronous DNS lookups is optional, 
    though recommended for performance on PlanetLab. The boost 
    software package is also required, as well as lex and yacc 
    (we use flex and bison).

    Gush uses some Perl helper scripts. If you want Gush to automatically 
    interface with the PlanetLab Central (PLC) database for you, you will 
    need to have Frontier::Client and Crypt::SSLeay properly installed. 
    We'll get to that in the next step.

Getting and building the code

    After downloading the code from SVN, follow the instructions below 
    from a Linux host. NOTE: This statically compiles gush and client. Remove 
    the --with-static compile flags to compile dynamically (which may be 
    easier to configure).

    Compiling Gush
      $ cd gush
      $ autoconf
      $ ./configure --with-static-client --with-static-gush
      $ make dep
      $ make

    Setting up Gush
      $ perl helper-scripts/setup.pl

That should be it!  Let us know if you have problems.  This is still a work 
in progress!

Following is a capture of all software installed to meet GUSH pre-requisites:

$ sudo apt-get install gcc
$ sudo apt-get install g++
$ wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/xmlrpc-c_1.06.27.orig.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf xmlrpc-c_1.06.27.orig.tar.gz 
$ cd xmlrpc-c-1.06.27/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install ; cd ..
$ sudo apt-get install curl
$ sudo apt-get install xml2
$ wget http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz
$ cd zlib-1.2.5/
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/zlib
$ make 
$ sudo make install ; cd ..

Notes: The libm and pthreads libraries and OpenSSL were already on systems.
      
$ sudo apt-get install libreadline6
$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5
$ sudo apt-get install libidn11

Found that Perl library Crypt::SSLeay required the libssl-dev package:

$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
$ sudo cpan
cpan[1]> install Frontier::Client           
cpan[2]> install Crypt::SSLeay
cpan[3]> quit

Now onto the GUSH code:

$ svn co http://gush.cs.williams.edu/svn/gush/trunk --username guest
$ cd trunk
$ sudo apt-get install autoconf
$ ./configure --with-static-client --with-static-gush

Configure and make had "numerous failures" which were addressed by installing the following additional packages:

$ sudo apt-get install pkg-config libxml2-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libboost-dev makedepend  
$ sudo apt-get install bison flex
$ sudo apt-get install libreadline6 libreadline6-dev libexpat1-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

Note that various changes had to be made for the "make" to work. Added the following to main.cc file:

 #include <limits.h>
 #include <strings.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <cstring>

Also the gcc-4.4 and g++-4.4 had to both be downgraded to avoid the following build issue:

g++ -g -Wall -Wno-unused -I. -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/include     -c version.cc -o version.o
version.cc: In constructor 'FileVersion::FileVersion(const char*)':
version.cc:56: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
version.cc:63: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
version.cc:69: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
version.cc:75: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
version.cc:81: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
make: *** [version.o] Error 1

With the additional packages, environment settings and downgraded versions was able to complete:

$ ./configure  --with-static-client --with-static-gush
$ make dep
$ make

Also found the following are required for LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/include/

Was able to eventually compile without the "--with-static-client --with-static-gush" flags.

Initial GUSH Binary Package

Was not able to use the first version of the Binary package due to missing files, had to install binary on top of svn checkout of gush repo. With this "binary+code" combination was able to run the new features delivered by "./helper-scripts/handle-geni.py". This evaluation of "binary+code" was not captured because it is not a likely scenario in the field.