Can I configure my virtual machine as slave in Jenkins

Question

Can I configure my VM as a slave in Jenkins? My host machine will be master and my VM machine will be the slave machine. Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can certainly use a virtual machine as a Jenkins slave.

All you need to do is set up a VM (OS based on your requirement) to automatically start a service that runs a script to start Jenkins slave.

So if your host is a windows machine which is the Jenkins master, the VM could be used as a slave machine.

Answer 2

The first step is the VirtualBox cloud configuration:

1. Configure the VirtualBox server, that allows to remotely manage VMs, and start it.

   VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null vboxwebsrv

2. Manage Jenkins -> Configure System -> Cloud -> Add a new cloud -> VirtualBox
3. Set Name, URL, Username and Password

4. Test connection

   If it doesn't work, then you can try to disable authentication library by executing following command on VirtualBox host:
   VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null

   If you got this error:

   Runtime modeler error: Wrapper class org.virtualbox_3_1.IWebsessionManagerLogon is not found. Have you run APT to generate them?

   Then you should upgrade Java (probably it is a bug in jax-ws). Also note that plugin was tested on Java 1.6.0_19.

VirtualBox slave

Now you can setup your nodes in Jenkins and use them to build your projects:

1. Add Manage Jenkins -> Manage Nodes -> New Node
2. Set Node name for VirtualBox Slave
3. Select VirtualBox Host, Virtual Machine Name and Virtual Machine Type

Hope this will help

Best Regards

Comments

Hi@Pistle,

This is really helpful. It helped me to configure my virtual machine as a Jenkins slave.