[Nix-dev] Nixops on headless server

[Colin Putney]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Marco Maggesi <maggesi at math.unifi.it> wrote:

> Hi, there seems to be again a problem with nixops with virtualbox headless
> nodes.
>
> $ nixops deploy -d minicloud
> webserver> creating VirtualBox VM...
> webserver> Virtual machine
> 'nixops-24856f59-ba5b-11e3-a2e6-2d15dd5fa0ff-webserver' is created and
> registered.
> webserver> UUID: d6ea884c-3173-4e12-bada-aeff1112c39c
> webserver> Settings file: '/home/maggesi/VirtualBox
> VMs/nixops-24856f59-ba5b-11e3-a2e6-2d15dd5fa0ff-webserver/nixops-24856f59-ba5b-11e3-a2e6-2d15dd5fa0ff-webserver.vbox'
> webserver> creating disk 'disk1'...
> webserver> 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
> webserver> Clone hard disk created in format 'VDI'. UUID:
> ad027933-92f8-4655-8f63-a3bf582122b8
> webserver> attaching disk 'disk1'...
> webserver> VBoxManage: error: The virtual machine
> 'nixops-24856f59-ba5b-11e3-a2e6-2d15dd5fa0ff-webserver' has terminated
> unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1
> webserver> VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005),
> component Machine, interface IMachine
> webserver> Waiting for VM
> "nixops-24856f59-ba5b-11e3-a2e6-2d15dd5fa0ff-webserver" to power on...
> webserver> waiting for IP address...........
>
> Can you test and confirm the problem.
>

Works fine for me. This looks like a problem with VirtualBox, not nix.

According to https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7367,

it's that you don't have a GUI available, so VirtualBox can't open a window
for the console.

Colin
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