Run Locally

The easiest way to try OSv locally is to use the Capstan tool to run one of the images from our public repository.

##Install Capstan

Linux/Mac Installation

Copy the following bash command and paste it to your terminal

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudius-systems/capstan/master/scripts/download | bash

Capstan is now installed.

Fedora

Using yum

sudo yum -y install https://repo.cloudrouter.org/1/x86_64/cloudrouter-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y install capstan

Or download the RPM

Courtesy of our friends at CloudRouter!

Windows Installation

More on Win install here

##Run OSv with Capstan The following will use capstan to download and run basic OSv image with CLI

$ capstan run cloudius/osv
Created instance: cloudius-osv
OSv v0.10
eth0: 192.168.122.15

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Building and running from sources

If you want to run OSv from sources, start by cloning the git project:

$ git clone https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv.git

Then follow the instructions in the README file.

Data collection

OSv binaries collect and send some basic data at each boot. For more information, see osv-stat.