1. Connect to newly launched VM instance

  • Using RDP client connect to VM instance using the default account name and password provided by the cloud provider.
  • Change the default password to your own password.
  • Optionally create additional users if needed.

2. Start the Crossmeta Drivers

  • Launch Windows Command Prompt or PowerShell in Administrator mode.

  • Navigate to Crossmeta installation directory c:\program files\crossmeta and run the script service_crossmeta.cmd as follows.


    C:\Users\Administrator>cd "\Program Files\crossmeta" 
C:\Program Files\crossmeta>service_crossmeta.cmd status 
cxvfs is STOPPED cxfuse is STOPPED
cxnfs is STOPPED cxhfs is STOPPED 
cxvfsmgr is STOPPED
C:\Program Files\crossmeta>service_crossmeta.cmd start 
Starting Crossmeta kernel driver.
The CROSSMETA Manager service is starting. 
The CROSSMETA Manager service was started successfully. 
Running Crossmeta 2.0.2-RELEASE #240: Mon Apr 8 18:17:44 PDT 2019 on WINNT/10.0_Build 
C:\Program Files\crossmeta>
  • Once Crossmeta drivers have loaded successfully the Crossmeta V: drive will be available for your use


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3. Configure your first object storage

To access your object storage from this cloud gateway software you would need access key and secret generated by your provider, if you are using object storage in multi-cloud environment or if the compute engine was not authorized to perform any S3 object access operations.

For AWS EC2 instance created with IAM role that authorizes S3 operations it may not be required to configure the accessId and accessKey within the software. Instead use the option --accessEC2IAM=ROLE option with objbaker. This will acquire S3 credentials from EC2 machine via IAM role.

    • Create access file with credentials

Create file v:\etc\.s3wasabi_passwd using notepad and add the access information in this format accessId:accessKey. The acccessId could be account ID, and the accessKey is base64 encoded secret.

By starting filename with dot you would avoid Windows adding any .txt extension to the above file. Also make sure there are no extraneous characters or newlines in this file.  This file is accessed by Crossmeta programs as /etc/.s3wasabi_passwd, while WIN32 programs access as v:\etc\.s3wasabi_passwd


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    • Location of SSL certficate bundle

      For SSL to work objbaker  needs to know the location
C:\Program Files\crossmeta>objbacker.exe  --cacert=ca-bundle.crt  --accessFile=/etc/.s3wasabi  --authVersion=aws2  --baseURL=https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/  --bucketCommand=list
objbacker.exe: create amazon_s3 temporary lower layer for command list
smbtest1        2019-04-30T17:51:51.000Z
testdisk1       2019-04-25T05:10:32.000Z
testdisk3       2019-04-25T05:10:06.000Z
testdisk5       2019-04-25T07:06:38.000Z
objbacker.exe: done

C:\Program Files\crossmeta>
C:\Program Files\crossmeta>objbacker.exe  --cacert=ca-bundle.crt  --accessFile=/etc/.s3wasabi  --authVersion=aws2  --baseURL=https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/  --bucketCommand=list
objbacker.exe: create amazon_s3 temporary lower layer for command list
smbtest1        2019-04-30T17:51:51.000Z
testdisk1       2019-04-25T05:10:32.000Z
testdisk3       2019-04-25T05:10:06.000Z
testdisk5       2019-04-25T07:06:38.000Z
objbacker.exe: done

C:\Program Files\crossmeta>

C:\Program Files\crossmeta>net start cxfuse

The CROSSMETA FUSE kernel mode driver service was started successfully.

:\Program Files\crossmeta>objbacker.exe  --cacert=ca-bundle.crt  --accessFile=/etc/.s3wasabi  --authVersion=aws2  --baseURL=https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/ --directIO --noAutoDetect --size=10T --timeout=30 --blockCacheSize=100 --blockCacheThreads=8 --minWriteDelay=5000 --md5CacheSize=1000000 --ssl --blockSize=1024K -o no_pagecache smbtest1  /mnt -f
objbacker.exe: auto-detection disabled; using configured block size 1m and file size 10t
objbacker.exe: error: https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/smbtest1/ appears to be already mounted

C:\Program Files\crossmeta>objbacker.exe  --cacert=ca-bundle.crt  --accessFile=/etc/.s3wasabi  --authVersion=aws2  --baseURL=https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/ --directIO --noAutoDetect --size=10T --timeout=30 --blockCacheSize=100 --blockCacheThreads=8 --minWriteDelay=5000 --md5CacheSize=1000000 --ssl --blockSize=1024K -o no_pagecache smbtest1 --reset-mounted-flag
objbacker.exe: auto-detection disabled; using configured block size 1m and file size 10t
objbacker.exe: resetting mounted flag for https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/smbtest1/
objbacker.exe: done

C:\Program Files\crossmeta>objbacker.exe  --cacert=ca-bundle.crt  --accessFile=/etc/.s3wasabi  --authVersion=aws2  --baseURL=https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/ --directIO --noAutoDetect --size=10T --timeout=30 --blockCacheSize=100 --blockCacheThreads=8 --minWriteDelay=5000 --md5CacheSize=1000000 --ssl --blockSize=1024K -o no_pagecache smbtest1  /mnt -f
objbacker.exe: auto-detection disabled; using configured block size 1m and file size 10t
 INFO: s3backer process 5312 for /mnt started
 INFO: mounting /mnt
C:\Program Files\crossmeta>


crossmeta-> sheel->
V:\>mount
/dev/loop0 on / type ufs (local)
\fuse.chan5312 on /mnt type fuse
devfs on /dev type devfs (local)

V:\>umount /mnt

V:\>


sc create objdisk1


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