VirtualBox

Creating an Ubuntu VirtualBox and installing Docker.

Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64"
  
  config.vm.define "docker-1" do |node|
    node.vm.hostname = "docker-1"
    config.vm.box_check_update = false
    config.vm.network "public_network"
    config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
      vb.name = "docker-1"
      vb.memory = "2048"
      vb.cpus = "2"
    end

    node.vm.provision "install-docker", type: "shell", :path => "ubuntu/install-docker-2.sh"
  end
  
end

install-docker-2.sh

cd /tmp
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sh /tmp/get-docker.sh

vagrant up

Wait for the virtual machines to get created and started. Then ssh into it.

vagrant ssh docker-1

Add the vagrant user to the docker group (this could probably be added to the script).

I wanted to try building my own Vagrant base box, I decided to use one of the chef bento templates for ease.

It was moving along nicely, downloaded the ISO, verified the checksum and suddenly this error appears.

VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine packer

Not quite sure where to start I decided to do a quick Google, read some posts about VirtualBox modules. I was quite sure that wasn’t my issue. So I went to GitHub where I saw a couple of issues that said set headless to true. Being new to packer, I didn’t really understand what that meant. After more reading I finally found it and decided I’d make this quick post about it.

VirtualBox is a fantastic tool, previously I had been using it from the GUI. However, recently I started running it remotely on a server and using VNC to connect and manage the virtual machines. I decided that I would rather use the command line for this task as well. However, remembering all the commands is proving difficult. So I’m going to create a list and hopefully help myself and others along the way.