Vagrant in Fedora

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 13:36 +0100, Alex Drahon wrote:
> >
> OK, what it means is that you got the polkit prompt, which gave you 
> access to libvirtd, but then the storage pool in 
> /home/gnat/.vagrant.d/tmp/storage-pool/ was created by libvirt with root 
> as the owner so when vagrant calls qemu-img (without root privileges) it 
> fails. Bad testing on my side again...

Hello

  So I'm extremely interested in using vagrant-kvm on fedora. I've
repackaged your latest git commits in an effort to get it working
however I'm still unable to do so. My tests seem to indicate that the
issue isn't one of polkit since I've tested it as root and the error
messages are the same. I noticed that the standard box format for
vagrant-kvm is qcow2. So I converted a box from vmdk to raw to qcow2 to
use, however even so I still can't get a box started.

  I can't install vagrant-mutate since there is no rpm. vagrant plugin
install vagrant-mutate results in an error. Not sure why its trying to
uninstall the bigdecimal gem that is provided as a rpm. Also I *just*
noticed that it's trying to uninstall the vagrant-mutate plugin?? So it
seems I have one installed but I guess not up to date. However vagrant
plugin list does not list mutate as a plugin, only kvm.. so something is
odd there.

Installing the 'vagrant-mutate' plugin. This can take a few minutes...
Installed the plugin 'vagrant-mutate (0.2.2)'!
Uninstalling the 'vagrant-mutate' plugin...
Uninstalling the 'vagrant-mutate' plugin...
Uninstalling the 'vagrant-mutate' plugin...
/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/uninstaller.rb:118:in `uninstall':
bigdecimal is not installed in GEM_HOME, try: (Gem::InstallError)
	gem uninstall -i /usr/share/gems bigdecimal
from /usr/share/gems/gems/vagrant-1.3.3/plugins/commands/plugin/action/prune_gems.rb:139:in `block (2 levels) in call'
	from /usr/share/ruby/set.rb:232:in `each_key'
	from /usr/share/ruby/set.rb:232:in `each'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/vagrant-1.3.3/plugins/commands/plugin/action/prune_gems.rb:129:in `block in call'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/vagrant-1.3.3/plugins/commands/plugin/gem_helper.rb:42:in `block in with_environment'
	from /usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/user_interaction.rb:40:in `use_ui'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/vagrant-1.3.3/plugins/commands/plugin/gem_helper.rb:41:in `with_environment'	from /usr/share/gems/gems/vagrant-1.3.3/plugins/commands/plugin/action/prune_gems.rb:128:in `call'	

<snip>....


Trying to run vagrant up --provider=kvm as root results in:

[root at mba Vagrant]# vagrant up --provider=kvm
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'kvm' provider...
[default] Importing base box 'f19'...
Failed to convert image to specified format.

the VagrantFile contents are: 
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "f19"
  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.192.10"
end

the /root/.vagrant.d/boxes/f19/kvm directory was copied from the
virtualbox one. I then ran VBoxManage clonehd box-disk1.vmdk
box-disk1.raw. Then qemu-img convert -O qcow2 box-disk1.raw
box-disk1.qcow2. Edited the box.ovf and changed only the following so
instead of .vmdk it was .qcow2.

<References>
  <File ovf:href="box-disk1.qcow2" ovf:id="file1"/>
</References>

Any ideas what is going on? How to move forward etc..