> 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 <soenkeh...@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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > nix-dev mailing list > > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > -- Patrick Wheeler patrick.john.whee...@gmail.com patrick.j.whee...@rice.edu patrick.whee...@colorado.edu
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