Issue with Running Minimega VM and Assigning IP to VM

mzinfobeyond commented 1 year ago

Hello,

I am a new user of Minimega and have been following the quickstart to run miniccc VM. Here are the steps I followed:

I created the miniccc.kernel and miniccc.initrd pair as mentioned in Step 1. I copied these files to /tmp/minimega/files.
Following Step 2, I started Minimega.
I configured and started the VM using the following commands: minimega[minimega]$ vm config kernel miniccc.kernel minimega[minimega]$ vm config initrd miniccc.initrd minimega[minimega]$ vm config net LAN minimega[minimega]$ tap create LAN ip 10.0.0.1/24 user: mega_tap0 minimega[minimega]$ dnsmasq start 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.254 minimega[minimega]$ vm launch kvm test minimega[minimega]$ vm start test
However, when I checked for the assigned IP using the command: minimega[minimega]$ .annotate false .columns name,state,ip vm info I found that the IP field for the "test" VM was empty: name | state | ip test | RUNNING | []
Additionally, when I started Miniweb and attempted to connect to the VNC, I encountered the following result:

I would greatly appreciate your assistance in resolving this issue. Thank you in advance for your help.

jacdavi commented 1 year ago

Hi. I believe the issue is with creating the vm using vmbetter. It looks like the VM isn't able to boot properly because some things are missing. @aherna any insight? I can't seem to build a booting VM either using the quickstart steps.

The vnc session seems to be working fine. That's just the output from the VM.

mzinfobeyond commented 1 year ago

Hello @jacdavi,

I appreciate your response. I am eagerly awaiting the solution to the issue mentioned earlier.

Additionally, could you kindly provide me with a source for a VM image that I can utilize with minimega?

Thank you once again!

jacdavi commented 1 year ago

@mzinfobeyond minimega supports booting VMs in the qcow2 which might be easier to work with. You can find steps here: https://www.sandia.gov/minimega/module-12-building-a-vm-with-kvm/

You can also search how to create qcow2 images. This seems like a simple option, though I've never used it: https://github.com/openstack/diskimage-builder

jacdavi commented 9 months ago

Hi @mzinfobeyond were you ever able to get a working image? I'll go ahead and close the issue unless there's anything else you need help with.

jacdavi commented 3 months ago

Going to go ahead and close this, but please reach out if you need more help (we'll try our best to respond)

sandia-minimega / minimega

Issue with Running Minimega VM and Assigning IP to VM #1518