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The tools needed to robotically create/configure/provision a large number of operating systems, for a variety of hypervisors, using packer.
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Feature Request: generic/rhel8 support subscription manager #191

Closed bastien-reinhardt closed 2 years ago

bastien-reinhardt commented 3 years ago

Problem

I am not able to get a generic/rhel8 box up with a synced folder using rsync. During vagrant up the start of the box throws an error, due to the vagrant plugin is not able to find/install rsync. This error occurs, because the box is not registered to the subscription manager.

Vagrant file

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.define "rhel8" do |rhel8| rhel8.vm.box = "generic/rhel8" rhel82.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "rsync" end end

Debug Output

The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status. Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

if command -v dnf; then dnf -y install rsync else yum -y install rsync fi

Stdout from the command:

/bin/dnf Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 5.6 MB/s | 8.2 MB 00:01 Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:03 ago on Wed 28 Oct 2020 10:54:28 AM UTC. No match for argument: rsync

Stderr from the command:

Error: Unable to find a match: rsync

Expected behaviour

It should be possible to register to subscription manager before package installation.

ladar commented 3 years ago

I can't ship boxes preregistered using subscription manager, without permission from Red Hat. And if you specify shared folders, Vagrant will automatically try and do any necessary setup, including the package installs before any other provisioning scripts get executed.

That said, if rsync is the only missing package, and it is available on the installer DVDs, I can update the box config to include it. Then Vagrant won't need to install it. Of course this fix will only work for shared folders using rsync, and not all of the platforms use this method.

I'll have to check the DVD/test this change when I have more time.

salderma commented 3 years ago

I would be interested in this as well, submitting a PR.

salderma commented 3 years ago

It's notable libvirt provider and sync folders are troublesome, rsync is probably the best/simplest way to provide a shared folder for a libvirt vagrant box.

ladar commented 2 years ago

Added the rsync package to most of the Linux configs. But only confirmed it's available on the RHEL 9 DVD so far. So it will disappear from the older RHEL boxes if it's missing.

ladar commented 2 years ago

I confirmed rsync is available on all of the RHEL DVDs, so it should be installed when the 4.1.2 boxes get built/released in the next ~1-3 weeks.