[Nix-dev] nixops deploy to vbox waiting for ip address indefinitely

[Sönke Hahn]

Hi all,

I am trying to get the trivial example from the nixops manual to work ([1]) 
on a spawned virtualbox machine. I tried to do everything according to the 
manual. When issuing the command

# nixops deploy -d trivial

the virtualbox gui pops up and a machine is started, I can see the grub menu 
appear briefly, but then the command hangs at

webserver> waiting for IP address........

and just continues to output dots.

I did some investigating and found that the python code that is nixops 
executes another command:

# VBoxManage guestproperty get nixops-36f68870-6be3-11e3-9b1e-f0def1f76f2d-
webserver /VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/1/V4/IP

which (both when executed through python or manually) results in

No value set!

This seems to be some problem with my virtualbox setup, but I wasn't able to 
find help on this searching the web. I guess that there are a lot people 
here on this list who do similar stuff so that's why I am asking here: Any 
advice? Did I miss something obvious?

Here's some additional info:

OS: Ubuntu 13.10
virtualbox: 4.2.16-dfsg-3 (installed from the ubuntu repos)
nixops: 1.1.1
Running nixops as root.

Thanks for any input,
Sönkee


[1] 
https://headcounter.org/hydra/build/47732/download/1/manual/manual.html#chap-overview