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 > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
