[Nix-dev] Nixops on headless server

Patrick Wheeler patrick.john.wheeler at gmail.com
Thu Jan 16 21:13:38 CET 2014


@Marco Good to hear thanks for let everyone know.


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Marco Maggesi <maggesi at math.unifi.it>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> just a quick note to let you know that I gave an other try to nixops today
> and now everything works as expected!
> (I deleted the old attempt and I updated nixops to version 1.2, no
> modification of my configuration).
>
> Thank you for your support,
> Marco
>
>
> 2013/12/25 Oliver Charles <ollie at ocharles.org.uk>
>
>>  On 23/12/13 20:06, Marco Maggesi wrote:
>>
>>  I started from scratch.  This is the interaction.
>> Thanks a lot,
>> M.
>>
>>  [maggesi at o0dom0:~/Devel/nixconfs/minicloud]$ nixops create
>> ./logical.nix ./physical-vbox.nix --name minicloud
>> created deployment ‘aa84379e-6c0c-11e3-8dd5-bfd6a9bb84eb’
>>  aa84379e-6c0c-11e3-8dd5-bfd6a9bb84eb
>>
>>  [maggesi at o0dom0:~/Devel/nixconfs/minicloud]$ nixops deploy -d minicloud
>>  webserver> creating VirtualBox VM...
>> webserver> Virtual machine
>> 'nixops-aa84379e-6c0c-11e3-8dd5-bfd6a9bb84eb-webserver' is created and
>> registered.
>> webserver> UUID: eda5fa7f-8141-40df-a9cf-9e13265d7e1f
>>  webserver> Settings file: '/home/maggesi/VirtualBox
>> VMs/nixops-aa84379e-6c0c-11e3-8dd5-bfd6a9bb84eb-webserver/nixops-aa84379e-6c0c-11e3-8dd5-bfd6a9bb84eb-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:
>> d9b38107-e2fe-440c-86e4-335711704dbf
>> webserver> attaching disk ‘disk1’...
>> webserver> VBoxManage: error: The virtual machine
>> 'nixops-aa84379e-6c0c-11e3-8dd5-bfd6a9bb84eb-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-aa84379e-6c0c-11e3-8dd5-bfd6a9bb84eb-webserver" to power on...
>> webserver> waiting for IP
>> address.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................^Cerror:
>> interrupted
>>
>>  [maggesi at o0dom0:~/Devel/nixconfs/minicloud]$ VBoxManage startvm
>> nixops-aa84379e-6c0c-11e3-8dd5-bfd6a9bb84eb-webserver --type headless
>> Waiting for VM "nixops-aa84379e-6c0c-11e3-8dd5-bfd6a9bb84eb-webserver" to
>> power on...
>> VBoxManage: error: The virtual machine
>> 'nixops-aa84379e-6c0c-11e3-8dd5-bfd6a9bb84eb-webserver' has terminated
>> unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1
>> VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component
>> Machine, interface IMachine
>>
>>   [maggesi at o0dom0:~/Devel/nixconfs/minicloud]$ VBoxManage startvm
>> nixops-aa84379e-6c0c-11e3-8dd5-bfd6a9bb84eb-webserver
>> Waiting for VM "nixops-aa84379e-6c0c-11e3-8dd5-bfd6a9bb84eb-webserver" to
>> power on...
>> VBoxManage: error: The virtual machine
>> 'nixops-aa84379e-6c0c-11e3-8dd5-bfd6a9bb84eb-webserver' has terminated
>> unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1
>> VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component
>> Machine, interface IMachine
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I think I had similar behaviour with VirtualBox, and it turned out the
>> internal DHCP server for VirtualBox wasn't running. I forget the specific
>> details, but if you Google around you should be able to find the
>> instructions. Could be a red herring - but worth looking into!
>>
>> - ocharles
>>
>
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