Vagrant Chef VM help

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Hi,

I set up virtual machine with help of Vagrant. Also set up Chef - basic
stuff so it has folder for cookbooks but it ended under tmp folder
instead of usr and building apache2 failed

I don’t know why… Followed Vagrant docs

Here it is what I put under Vagrantfile

Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
chef.cookbooks_path = [“cookbooks”, [:vm, “/usr/local/cookbooks”]]
chef.add_recipe "apache2"
chef.add_role "web"
end
end

But before complete boot of my VM I got this error

– v-csc-1: /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

mount -t vboxsf -o uid=id -u vagrant,gid=id -g vagrant v-csc-1
/tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks

Is it possible to edit cookbooks under tem so I don’t have to destroy VM
every single time and re-edit Vagrantfile?

I am a noob here. So, if you would be so kind and help me to resolve this

Also, if you have any good tutorial how do I set up Virtual machine in a
way that when I ssh to it I see which role that VM has… For example that
it has base role

Thanks

2

Hi there,

Until you actually get a chef run going, there's no harm in simply running
"vagrant provision" (once you've unsuccessfully run "vagrant up") on that
VM. I suggest you simplify your Vagrantfile a bit by changing this line:

chef.cookbooks_path = ["cookbooks", [:vm, "/usr/local/cookbooks"]]

to:

chef.cookbooks_path = ["cookbooks"]

This will tell Vagrant to mount ./cookbooks on the host as a cookbook
path within the guest, so you can edit cookbooks using your favorite editor
and still test them with Vagrant on the guest.

(However, I believe checking in ./cookbooks is Vagrant's default behavior
... so you can probably lose the line entirely and still get what you want.)

In order to update the message of the day, you'll need to start using a
Chef handler that does that. Fortunately, there's one on GitHub ...
("chef-handler-motd" I believe ...)

Good luck!

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Jasna Benčić jasna.bencic@teamsnap.comwrote:

Hi,

I set up virtual machine with help of Vagrant. Also set up Chef - basic
stuff so it has folder for cookbooks but it ended under tmp folder
instead of usr and building apache2 failed

I don't know why.... Followed Vagrant docs

Here it is what I put under Vagrantfile

Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
chef.cookbooks_path = ["cookbooks", [:vm, "/usr/local/cookbooks"]]
chef.add_recipe "apache2"
chef.add_role "web"
end
end

But before complete boot of my VM I got this error

-- v-csc-1: /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

mount -t vboxsf -o uid=id -u vagrant,gid=id -g vagrant v-csc-1
/tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks

Is it possible to edit cookbooks under tem so I don't have to destroy VM
every single time and re-edit Vagrantfile?

I am a noob here. So, if you would be so kind and help me to resolve this

Also, if you have any good tutorial how do I set up Virtual machine in a
way that when I ssh to it I see which role that VM has... For example that
it has base role

Thanks

3

Thanks steve for your answer, will work on it

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:09 PM, steve . leftathome@gmail.com wrote:

Hi there,

Until you actually get a chef run going, there's no harm in simply running
"vagrant provision" (once you've unsuccessfully run "vagrant up") on that
VM. I suggest you simplify your Vagrantfile a bit by changing this line:

chef.cookbooks_path = ["cookbooks", [:vm, "/usr/local/cookbooks"]]

to:

chef.cookbooks_path = ["cookbooks"]

This will tell Vagrant to mount ./cookbooks on the host as a cookbook
path within the guest, so you can edit cookbooks using your favorite editor
and still test them with Vagrant on the guest.

(However, I believe checking in ./cookbooks is Vagrant's default behavior
... so you can probably lose the line entirely and still get what you want.)

In order to update the message of the day, you'll need to start using a
Chef handler that does that. Fortunately, there's one on GitHub ...
("chef-handler-motd" I believe ...)

Good luck!

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Jasna Benčić jasna.bencic@teamsnap.comwrote:

Hi,

I set up virtual machine with help of Vagrant. Also set up Chef - basic
stuff so it has folder for cookbooks but it ended under tmp folder
instead of usr and building apache2 failed

I don't know why.... Followed Vagrant docs

Here it is what I put under Vagrantfile

Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
chef.cookbooks_path = ["cookbooks", [:vm, "/usr/local/cookbooks"]]
chef.add_recipe "apache2"
chef.add_role "web"
end
end

But before complete boot of my VM I got this error

-- v-csc-1: /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

mount -t vboxsf -o uid=id -u vagrant,gid=id -g vagrant v-csc-1
/tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks

Is it possible to edit cookbooks under tem so I don't have to destroy VM
every single time and re-edit Vagrantfile?

I am a noob here. So, if you would be so kind and help me to resolve this

Also, if you have any good tutorial how do I set up Virtual machine in a
way that when I ssh to it I see which role that VM has... For example that
it has base role

Thanks