[chef] Re: kitchen test using vagrant/virtualbox

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Jul 22, 2015, at 8:58 AM, Peterson, Rosalba G 
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 wrote:

>  
> Hello,
> I am running into some issues trying to boot a 64 bit CentOS/RHEL instance 
> from VirtualBox, installed on a RHEL VM using ESXi for virtualization. It 
> works fine with 32 bits VMs, but as I understand, for 64 bits, I need to 
> enable VT-x/AMD-V in the BIOS setting of the Physical Server CPU to be able 
> to run 64-bit operating systems inside of them. I am not sure if this would 
> work running on virtualization and/or nested VMs.
>  
> Output:
>  
> Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
>        ==> default: VirtualBox VM is already running.
>        Waiting for SSH service on 127.0.0.1:2222, retrying in 3 seconds
>        Waiting for SSH service on 127.0.0.1:2222, retrying in 3 seconds
>        Waiting for SSH service on 127.0.0.1:2222, retrying in 3 seconds
>        Waiting for SSH service on 127.0.0.1:2222, retrying in 3 seconds
>        Waiting for SSH service on 127.0.0.1:2222, retrying in 3 seconds
>        Waiting for SSH service on 127.0.0.1:2222, retrying in 3 seconds
> …
> …
> …
>        $$$$$$ [SSH] connection failed, terminating (#<Timeout::Error: 
> execution expired>)
> >>>>>> ------Exception-------
> >>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ActionFailed
>  
> I am using chef-zero for kitchen provissioner. Increasing the timeout 
> doesn’t help at all.
> Has anyone had any similar issues?

This list is about Chef and Chef related tools, you can probably get help on 
using ESXi from VMWare tech support or similar. It sounds like there might be 
a bug in Virtualbox where it fails to recognize the VM launch failure. You 
might try using a kitchen-native sphere driver like 
https://github.com/CenturyLinkCloud/chef-provisioning-vsphere#kitchen-driver ;
to see if that helps, though if it is a VMWare-side issue at best this will 
just give you a better error message.

--Noah

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