Vagrant

Vagrant Notes

Starting Vagrant Manually

On Windows, you will have to start your Vagrant VM manually. You can run these same commands on Linux or the Mac, but it's more work, especially since there's no automated way to bind ports and volumes.

It makes sense to do this from a clean directory:

mkdir vagrant
cd vagrant

You could use vagrant init, but it will run into problems with guest additions. We recommend you create the Vagrantfile manually in the directory you just created with a text editor:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "radiasoft/beamsim"
  config.vm.hostname = "rs"
  config.ssh.forward_x11 = true
end

Then download and boot the virtual machine (VM) image (e.g. radiasoft/beamsim) from the Vagrant repository with the following command:

vagrant up

The first time you run this command, it will fail with something like:

/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device

This is caused by the VirtualBox "guest additions" not matching the version of the VirtualBox software on your computer.

To update the "guest additions" for VirtualBox, you'll need to get the version from VirtualBox on your computer. Start the VirtualBox GUI and and looking under the "About" menu.

The version is everything before the r. In this example, the value is 4.3.28. You will replace YOUR-VERSION-HERE in the following example with your version number (e.g. 4.3.28) when you execute the following sequence of commands:

vagrant ssh -c "sudo su -"
v=YOUR-VERSION-HERE
yum remove -q -y VirtualBox-guest kmod-VirtualBox
curl -L -O http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/$v/VBoxGuestAdditions_$v.iso
mount -t iso9660 -o loop VBoxGuestAdditions_$v.iso /mnt
sh /mnt/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
umount /mnt
rm -f VBoxGuestAdditions_$v.iso
exit

In your shell/command prompt, type:

vagrant reload

After your VM boots, login to your VM as follows on Windows:

set DISPLAY=localhost:0
vagrant ssh

You can also add DISPLAY=localhost:0 to your user environment in the Control Panel so that you don't have to type the set command each time.

On the Mac or Linux, you would type:

vagrant ssh

On the Mac, XQuartz automatically sets your $DISPLAY variable.

Installing Vagrant on Mac

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant

You should install the vagrant-vbguest plugin. Once vagrant is installed, run:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

If you want to run X11 applications (e.g. RadTrack), you will need to install an X11 server:

• XQuartz

Installing Vagrant on Windows

You need to download and install the following (in order):

• VirtualBox
• SSHWindows
• Vagrant

If you want to run X11 applications (e.g. RadTrack), you will need to install an X11 server:

• VcXsrv

You'll need to reboot and start vcxsrv manually.

Initial Vagrantfile

If you are just booting a new machine, use this:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "radiasoft/beamsim"
  config.vm.hostname = 'v'
  config.ssh.forward_x11 = false
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true
end

You'll need to install guest additions to match your host so use bivio_vagrant_ssh, which will be faster in any event, because it caches the ssh command.

Private network

To add a private network, add this to your Vagrantfile and vagrant reload:

config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "10.0.0.2"

The host will take IP address 1 so don't use that.

If you see this:

==> default: Setting hostname...
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

service network restart

Stdout from the command:

Restarting network (via systemctl):  [FAILED]

Stderr from the command:

Job for network.service failed. See "systemctl status network.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Clear your arp cache. On Linux and Mac OS X:

sudo arp -a -d

timesyncd

You will need ntp synchronization:

sudo su -
mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d
echo -e "[Unit]\nConditionVirtualization=" > /etc/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d/allow_virt.conf
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service
systemctl start systemd-timesyncd.service

Dump vm info

vboxmanage showvminfo 'my_vm'

Use NFS to sync folders

The default syncing mechanism is slow. You can switch to NFS on Mac (not Windows). Here's what you'll need to do on the Mac (assumes NFS is already running):

touch /etc/exports
chmod 644 /etc/exports

Vagrant needs to read this file as an ordinary user.

Edit the Vagrantfile:

config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "nfs", mount_options: ["nolock,vers=3,udp"]

Note that locking doesn't seem to work. I gets this error:

mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking.
mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd.
mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified

service nfslock is started, and no amount of fiddling seemed to fix this.

When you reload, you'll be prompted to sudo on the host so that it can modify /etc/exports.

VirtualBox setup private network

List the interfaces:

vboxmanage list hostonlyifs

Create the host-only interface:
$ vboxmanage hostonlyif create
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Interface 'vboxnet5' was successfully created

Set the IP address (netmask defaults to /24):

vboxmanage hostonlyif ipconfig vboxnet5 --ip 10.10.10.1

Setup the network adapter (nic2, because nic1 has to be NAT):

vboxmanage modifyvm my_vm --hostonlyadapter2 vboxnet5
vboxmanage modifyvm my_vm --nic2 hostonly

Then you have to modify your network config to be static. We have DNS hostnames z1.bivio.biz (host), z2.bivio.biz (first guest), etc. This allows you to setup SSL with *.bivio.biz cert.

I'd recommend using a block, say, z10, z11, and z12 to setup a cluster associated with one application that way you can have different blocks (up to z50 right now) for the different hosts. You can also use these IPs for Docker, which is why they are zN and not vN.

Windows 8.1 Configuring Host Adapter

Little arrow in the lower left to get to Apps

PC Settings under P:

Control Panel in lower left:

View network status and tasks:

Ethernet 2 (double click):

Properties (button):

Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) (double click description):

Use the following IP address (check):

IP address: 10.10.10
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

Also check "Use the following DNS server addresses.

Ta Da! You can connect to another vagrant box on 10.10.10.20 (z20.bivio.biz):

Fixing VirtualBox Guest Additions

You might get the error message you can't load "guest additions". vboxvfs isn't loading so you need to reload the guest additions on the VM. Here's what you do:

On your the host, run this command. It will update the kernel, reload, and then apply latest guest additions:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/biviosoftware/utilities/master/bin/fixup-docker.sh | sh

Reassociating Vagrant with VirtualBox VM

Sometimes vagrant screws up and deletes the files in .vagrant in the vagrant instance directory. The VM is still there in VirtualBox, you just have to reattach it.

It wasn't too hard to figure out if the machine is still there. Do a netstat -an and look for listening on ports like 2222 (and up). You can ssh manually to it:

ssh [email protected] -p 2224 -o Compression=yes -o DSAAuthentication=yes -o LogLevel=FATAL -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -i /Users/nagler/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key

You can find your lost VM with VBoxManage, too:

VBoxManage list vms

This list is in order of creation. Make sure you pick the first one, because vagrant up (which probably destroyed your .vagrant directory) may have added a new entry. Here's an example entry:

"bdev_default_1413228406337_54539" {47d5386a-2004-40f5-859c-13ff9945f012}

The key bits are the id which is 47d5386a-2004-40f5-859c-13ff9945f012 and the first ten digits in the box name (1413228406) are used by Vagrant.

You are then going to have to edit ~/.vagrant.d/data/machine-index/index. This JSON file contains "index_uuid" values. Here's the entry for the lost machine:

"2e88f6eed0f94ba49e9c95d0426f7895": {
  "local_data_path":"/Users/nagler/vagrant/bdev/.vagrant",
  "name":"default",
  "provider":"virtualbox",
  "state":"running",
  "vagrantfile_name":null,
  "vagrantfile_path":"/Users/nagler/vagrant/bdev",
  "updated_at":null,
  "extra_data": {
    "box": {
      "name":"bivio-centos6",
      "provider":"virtualbox",
      "version":"0"
    }
  }
}

If there is no such entry, you can just create a long number for the index_uuid (see below) and create the entry. However, it's likely the entry is there, because vagrant wrote over it. You can use the uuid that's in there.

The index_uuid that Vagrant creates is 2e88f6eed0f94ba49e9c95d0426f7895 in this example.

If your machine is still running, you'll need to update this file to change state to running. You can tell if a machine is running by:

VBoxManage list runningvms

You now need to create the files in .vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/. With the above example data, here's the script:

cd ~vagrant/bdev/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox
echo -n 47d5386a-2004-40f5-859c-13ff9945f012 > id
echo -n 1413228406 > action_set_name
echo -n 1.5:47d5386a-2004-40f5-859c-13ff9945f012 > action_provision
echo -n 2e88f6eed0f94ba49e9c95d0426f7895 > index_uuid

You should now be able to see the status:

cd ~vagrant/bdev
vagrant status

Resize Windows 8 Disk

Resize the VBox disk:

cd '/Users/nagler/VirtualBox VMs/Win8.1'
VBoxManage modifyhd Win\ 8.1.vdi --resize 51200

"Dynamic" disks are not dynamic in that sense. They just allocate blocks for the guest on the host lazily. There doesn't seem to be a performance difference between static and dynamic disks even though some people say there are.

On Windows, press "Right Windows Key + R" and enter diskmgmt.msc. Right click on the main Windows partition (NTFS), select Extend Volume, and accept the defaults for the rest of the wizard items.

Upgrading VirtualBox 5 and NetworkManager

Not sure what's going on yet (robnagler):

Ignoring connection 'System eth1' / device 'eth1' due to NM_CONTROLLED=no.

https://github.com/openshift/training/issues/193

Manually starting ifup eth1 works.

Mac OS X with Thunderbolt Display

Turn off audio if you have a Thunderbolt Display, e.g.

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--audio", "none"]
  end

See how to do this after the fact from the command line.