Q. What was a reason to create VM rather then simply publish a source code?
A. As any developer who has decided to share his effort with other human beings I want that my project will be helpful and easy to use (or evaluate) but there are too many moving parts in the CSLI that I've decided to pull all together (source code, database scheme and configuration as well as OS and accompany applications configuration...) into one bundle to avoid the situation then you have to spend a couple days to make it work.
Q. How to restart cslid (CSLI daemon)?
A. cslid is a part of upstart system and could be restarted by: root@csli:~# service cslid restart.