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

[Sönke Hahn]

Thanks for your answer.

For me this was a virtualbox issue somewhat unrelated to nix. I had to 
enable some Intel virtualization technology in my machine's bios.

On ec2 everything seems to work so far.

Cheers,
Sönke


Patrick Wheeler wrote:
>> waiting for IP address........
> 
> I got this response when trying to boot a virtualbox machine, through
> nixops, on vmware fusion and at one point on an ec2 instance. Though I can
> not longer reproduce this on ec2, now gets stuck attaching the disk.
> 
> The first time I tried it on a dedicated server with linux running on the
> metal it worked the first time.
> 
>> the virtualbox gui pops up and a machine is started, I can see the grub
> menu
> appear briefly, but then the command hangs at
> 
> I also got this when trying it on vmware, but never have been able to take
> the time to find out exactly where things go wrong.
> 
> I am currently running nixops 1.2, but I believe the behavior existed back
> when nixops was charon.
> 
> 
> So if by chance you have not tried it on the metal yet it might be worth a
> shot.  Hope that helps.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Sönke Hahn <SoenkeHahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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