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