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Optional vmware provider option #101

Closed richierampage closed 9 years ago

richierampage commented 10 years ago

Hi,

VLAD is working well for me but I use vmware as the vm provider not virtualbox.

My motivation for using vmware is speed but there are some additional networking benefits that I am yet to use. Have no benchmarking figures to share but vmware it is definitely faster for me.

I thought I would share my findings here and suggest that the provider could optionally specified with something like:

vagrant up provider=vmware_fusion or vagrant up provider=vmware_workstation

Vmware and vagrant plugin Licensing

Before you can use vmware, you need to buy licenses for both vmware and vagrant vmware provider. Installation of both are straightforward with details of the vagrant license being found https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/vmware/installation.html

Config settings changes for vmware fusion

The following code changes work for me using vmware fusion (mac), pc users will need to tweak these for workstation, I think you just need to change vmware_fusion to vmware_workstation but not sure.

First, specify vmware image so replace current relative path with:

# Configure virtual machine options. config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64_vmware.box"

Then change provider config (of course memory and cpus can be changed to suit):

config.vm.provider "vmware_fusion" do |v| v.gui = false v.vmx["memsize"] = "2048" v.vmx["numvcpus"] = "4" end

Issues

I have only had some issues with iptables code not being recognised within mysql task so I removed it! This needs resolving properly really. I have not tested all aspects of vlad.

Happy to work on adding provider parameter feature if you think it is worth it?

Rich

dixhuit commented 10 years ago

Thanks for this Rich :)

philipnorton42 commented 10 years ago

This is awesome, thanks for taking the time to submit this Rich. I would like to add support for other virtual machine providers, but I only use VirtualBox so I have no way of testing the other platforms. I may move to vmware in the future, but for the time being VirtualBox fits my needs :)

As a way of allowing other providers to work with Vlad I have wrapped the VirtualBox settings (apart from the box image) so it should be pretty simple to create a bigger if statement to wrap all the settings for the different providers, with VirtualBox as the default provider. If I create the if statement are you happy with adding the settings you need into the mix?

Then there are the other issues you mentioned, but lets get the VagrantFile working first :)

richierampage commented 10 years ago

Phil,

Great that you are happy to add this feature. I am happy to add my bits once you create the if statement mentioned.

Cheers

Rich

philipnorton42 commented 10 years ago

I've just pushed some code to the dev branch for this. I've tested this as working with virtual box on my local setup so let me know if you have any problems on your end.

Also, I wanted to use a box file from vagrant share and it turns out that Ubuntu don't have support for anything other than virtual box... I've therefore gone for the box https://vagrantcloud.com/hashicorp/boxes/precise64 which seems like a good alternative.

richierampage commented 10 years ago

Haven't had much time to test but swapped in the new Vagrantfile and it worked fine. Thanks again.

Will try and find out why iptables command within MySQL playback fails, maybe the standard images have it installed already and vm ones don't?

Slightly off topic for VLAD maybe but also got digital ocean provisioning working too. My ultimate goal is a full dev/stage/prod tool, maybe using gitflow/drush deploy, dunno yet!

Cheers Rich

geerlingguy commented 9 years ago

In case it's helpful, here's the changes (pretty simple, really) I made to the Drupal VM project to get it working with VMware: https://github.com/geerlingguy/drupal-vm/issues/35

richierampage commented 9 years ago

Thanks Jeff, some tweaks have now been made to dev branch of VLAD to cater for this. Just add --provider=vmware_fusion.

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In case it's helpful, here's the changes (pretty simple, really) I made to the Drupal VM project to get it working with VMware: geerlingguy/drupal-vm#35 https://github.com/geerlingguy/drupal-vm/issues/35

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philipnorton42 commented 9 years ago

Is everything in place to allow this to work? If so I'll close this issue.

richierampage commented 9 years ago

fine by me. thanks

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Is everything in place to allow this to work? If so I'll close this issue.

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philipnorton42 commented 9 years ago

Awesome :) Just thought I would check. Thanks!

richierampage commented 9 years ago

No, thank you!

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Awesome :) Just thought I would check. Thanks!

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