[CentOS-devel] centos/7 vagrant box: Could not find a controller named 'IDE Controller'

Marcin Dulak marcin.dulak at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 03:52:02 UTC 2016


Hi,

it looks to me that the reason for 'IDE Controller' missing may be actually
in the box.ovf file,
~/.vagrant.d/boxes/centos-VAGRANTSLASH-7/1610.01/virtualbox/box.ovf.
Comparing the box.ovf file from puppetlabs/centos-7.2-64-puppet to centos/7
I see many namespaces are missing in the Envelope of the latter.

So I took the box.ovf from 1.0.1 puppetlabs/centos-7.2-64-puppet copied it
over centos/7, and modified it (attached) to match the 1610.01 centos/7 one.
This consisted of replacing the vmdk name and uuids (diff vs. the original
puppetlabs ovf attached), and 'IDE Controller' is again available.
I'm on Ubuntu 14.04:
$ vagrant --version
Vagrant 1.9.0
$ vboxmanage --version
5.1.10r112026

All this may be still due to a mystery about 'IDE Controller' that we don't
understand, and I may just be lucky, but it is worth trying on more
platforms.

Another hint that something may be wrong with centos/7 box.ovf is the fact
that the boot order reported by the original centos/7 box,
and the Vagrantfile after the "workaround" of replacing 'IDE Controller' ->
'IDE' does not correspond to the boot order in box.ovf:

vboxmanage showvminfo --machinereadable <uuid> | grep 'boot.='
boot1="floppy"
boot2="dvd"
boot3="disk"
boot4="none"

Moreover, the xml file is supposed to be human-readable, the box.ovf from
centos/7 is not - please fix this when generating the new xml file.

Marcin




On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 9:34 PM, Laurențiu Păncescu <lpancescu at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I can't give it a try right now, but I would expect to see an error: I've
> already had to update my starter kit at the beginning of November, to
> address the name of the IDE controller having changed. [1]  The proper
> solution would be to get the name of the IDE controller by parsing the
> output of "VBoxManage showvminfo", instead of hard-coding it.
>
> I've never looked at the reasons for the name change - is "IDE controller"
> what you get when using Packer, instead of just "IDE"?
>
> Best regards,
> Laurențiu
>
> [1] https://github.com/lpancescu/cloud-instance-starter-kit/commit/
> eb259d0574d80e0c18aadfaad320b77a3d89b052
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Marcin Dulak <marcin.dulak at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> does anyone get the above error for the attached Vagrantfile, with:
>> OS X 10.11.6
>> Vagrant 1.9.0
>> VirtualBox 5.1.10 r112026 (Qt5.6.2)
>>
>> Reported here: https://github.com/marcindulak/vagrant-mariadb-galera-
>> tutorial-centos7/pull/1
>>
>> $ BOX='puppetlabs/centos-7.2-64-puppet' VERSION='1.0.1' vagrant up  #
>> works
>> $ BOX='centos/7' VERSION='1610.01' vagrant up # fails
>> $ BOX='centos/7' VERSION='1505.01' vagrant up  # fails
>>
>> ["storageattach", :id, "--storagectl", "IDE Controller", "--port", 0, "--device", 1, "--type", "hdd", "--medium", "sdb.vdi"]
>>
>> The following error was experienced:
>> #<Vagrant::Errors::VBoxManageError: There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrantfor controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.
>>
>> Command: ["storageattach", "51e7f61f-2d6f-43dc-916b-1d8dad0ea505", "--storagectl", "IDE Controller", "--port", "0", "--device", "1", "--type", "hdd", "--medium", "sdb.vdi"]
>>
>> Stderr: VBoxManage: error: Could not find a controller named 'IDE Controller'>
>>
>> Please fix this customization and try again.
>>
>>
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