[CentOS-devel] Vagrant / Centos 7 Install Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base/7/x86_64

Wed Feb 21 13:37:50 UTC 2018
Simon Payne <spayne2012 at gmail.com>

Hi Laurentiu,

Thank you very much for trying it out and giving your feedback. I will have
a look at some of those other options.

Cheers

Simon


Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:45:36 +0100
> From: Laurentiu Pancescu <lpancescu at centosproject.org>
> To: centos-devel at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Vagrant / Centos 7 Install Error: Cannot
>         find a valid baseurl for repo: base/7/x86_64
> Message-ID: <abbbfc72-9579-462f-dff2-6bab7ee6ecf8 at centosproject.org>
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>
> Hi Simon,
>
> On 20/02/18 12:01, Simon Payne wrote:
> > I am trying to get a Centos VM working with Vagrant + VirtualBox on
> Windows
> > 8.  However I'm getting an error to do with the centos/7 box.
> >
> > I have installed Vagrant using its automated installer, and VirtualBox,
> and
> > downloaded this box:
> >
> > https://app.vagrantup.com/centos/boxes/7
> [snip]
> > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base/7/x86_64
> >
> > I don't know how to fix it.  I append the error trace and my Vagrantfile.
> > Any help will be appreciated.
>
> I'm not sure what's going on,either.  VirtualBox users on Windows have
> been plagued by DNS problems immediately after centos/7 boots (disabling
> the NAT DNS resolver is an attempt to work around that).  I tried to
> simulate that by disabling the host networking immediately after running
> "vagrant up", and that produces the same error message you got.
>
> I don't have access to Windows, so I ran your example on a Mac with
> VirtualBox 5.2.6, vagrant-vbguest 0.15.1 and centos/7 1801.02.  It
> installed the guest additions and mounted the shared folder via vboxsf.
> The DNS resolver problems were always restricted to VirtualBox on
> Windows - it works on Mac and Linux, as do all other hypervisors.  I'm
> afraid I can't help you; perhaps you can try to use our Hyper-V images
> (Hyper-V is included for free in Windows Professional and higher) or
> VMware, if that's an option.
>
> Please note that the guest additions aren't really needed.  Networking
> works just fine without them, and you can use Samba or vagrant-sshfs for
> sharing files:
>
> https://github.com/dustymabe/vagrant-sshfs
>
> Best regards,
> Lauren?iu
>
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