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

[Sönke Hahn]

A colleague of mine told me that in the vm there should at least be a system 
booting up to a text based console. This is not happening for me. So the 
problem does not seem to stem from a network misconfiguration, but from a 
more general issue with the disk image...


Sönke Hahn wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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