Devops Needs Sushi
Don’t you just love Ruby errors … like the one below ?
Don’t they almost make Java stack traces look readable ?
57 lines of jibberish … where all I wanted to read was “VirtualBox in error state, check gui”
People like Randall Hanssen deserve much more visibility .. they do understand how to write a good error message and there are lots of projects that need improvement there.
Anywhow… vagrant had suddenly stopped working on me with the error below
I have had most of my test environment, aka puppetmasters, test mysql setups etc running in KVM for the past couple of years .. (yes I`m still using a lot of Xen in production environments, but we’ve also been using KVM for a while already .. it’s a good mix) , Virtual box has always been the lesser loved Virtualization platform , however while playing more and more with Vagrant Up I realized I needed to convirt some boxen (e.g my PuppetMaster) to Virtualbox, and google was really no good help(most people seem to go the other way , or want to use some proprietary tools )
Johan from Sizing Servers asked me if I could talk about my experiences on building (virtual) appliances at their Advanced Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud seminar . Off course I said yes ..
Slides are below … Enjoy ..
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So you need that old FC9 instance on your fresh F11 install.
Obviously I started a KVM instance on my desktop and installed FC9 in a Virtual Machine,
It took long to install, too long, so I looked if KVM was working correctly
Kvm was loaded but not in use ..
And then you remember why you had VirtualBox on that machine before it’s upgrade . indeed, this machine was to old it was not a VT Capable machine . VirtualBox performs much better there ..
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you’ll know that
for the past decade I’ve had a love-hate relation ship with Sun.
Sun has done a lot of good things in their open source journey such as MySQL, openOffice , Virtualbox and opensourcing Java. But on the other hand they had troubles with creating really organic opensource.
I’ve always wondered why a company that bought StarDivision because it was cheaper than buying the MS Office license keeps wasting money on building it’s own operating systems, albeit in a pretty open model, but with zero to no relevant community.