[chef] Question about new client registration for VM

[Dreamcat4 < >]

Hi!

I'm trying to register a Virtual Machine as new node. As we know -
chef-client sends up the validation.pem to download a new client.pem
file and register itself as a new node...

An error occurs at the point where the client is expecting to receive
its new client.pem file from the server:

"/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/rest.rb:80:in
`register': The response from the server did not include a private
key! (Chef::Exceptions::CannotWritePrivateKey)"

Full log:
https://gist.github.com/669039


Could this be because the chef server thinks the node is already
registered (because the host node shares the same IP address as the
Virtual Machine)?


Regards

dreamcat4