[Nix-dev] nixops waits forever for SSH

[Richard Wallace]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Try disabling the firewall in the nixos configuration.
>

In trivial.nix, I replaced
  networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 80 ];

with

  networking.firewall.enable = false;

nixops was still unable to determine when the ssh server came up in the
virtual machine.


>
> About the virtualbox issue, it's possible that the vbox kernel of your
> linux box is not compatible with the nixpkgs virtualbox.
>
>
That's about what I'd figured too.  It's not so bad, I'll just have a
~/nix/bin that I'll put in the PATH.  That way I can circumvent the purity
of nix-shell somewhat.


>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Richard Wallace <
> rwallace at thewallacepack.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello again,
>>
>> I finally got `nixops deploy -d trivial` to create a virtualbox image and
>> start it - I had to abandon using virtualbox from nixpkgs and instead put
>> the VBoxManage installed by Arch on my PATH.
>>
>> During startup, the IP address is determined correctly and then nixops
>> says, "waiting for SSH..." and then just waits forever.  I can see in the
>> virtualbox console that SSH started, but nixops is unable to see that.  Is
>> there a step I am missing?  vboxdrv, vboxnetadp and vboxnetflt are all
>> loaded correctly.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Rich
>>
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