Localhost install works as expected on Ubuntu Precise and Debian Squeeze

It is fully automated: http://drupalcode.org/project/barracuda.git/blob/HEAD:/docs/INSTALL.txt#l60

I was having the same error. Not sure if this is what fixed it, but I added another network adapter to the VM using "Host-only Adapter" -> "vboxnet0." Then gave the VM a static address by adding the following to /etc/network/interfaces on the VM:

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.56.101
netmask 255.255.255.0

The IP address is on the same subnet as my host machine. Then I set the IP address as 192.168.56.101 in .barracuda.cnf before running the install.....

On your host machine add whatever domain names you want to resolve to 192.168.56.101 in /etc/hosts e.g.
192.168.56.101 aegir.local o1.aegir.local site1.aegir.local site2.aegir.local

created a poll about BOA on VirtualBox
http://groups.drupal.org/node/239838

a comment

The notes for Barracuda says it is supported to be installed in Virtualbox. Has anyone actually done this? It would be great to hear from someone who has successfully done this and how they are doing so. I've tried multiple times on both Debian Squeeze and Ubuntue Precise to no avail.

I got that error too... am about to start posting my experiments/errors etc and try to get to the bottom of this

@dev286

what operating system are you using as Host ? I am using Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7 for these tests

I am told it works fine on Mac, but have no verification it works for Ubuntu or Windows 7 hosts

I also was getting Octopus trying to install to o1.sub.aegir.local when it should be o1.aegir.local ...

am testing with Windows 7 host and Debian guest

will next test Windows 7 host / Ubuntu Precise guest

then Ubuntu host/Debian guest, Ubuntu/Ubuntu

haven't tried head yet either

It just failed for me with VirtualBox on a Mac and Ubuntu Precise guest. It worked fine before, so something has changed in the meantime. See the screenshot attached.

So far it looks like the problem is that Ubuntu Precise default dnsmasq daemon is not killed properly, so pdnsd can't start - hence also resolveip test fails, and then everything else fails.

Uh, it looks really weird. We have the code in place to replace dnsmasq with pdnsd, but it doesn't work for some weird reason:

linode:~# cat /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
dns=dnsmasq

linode:~# sed -i "s/^dns=.*/dns=pdnsd/g" /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
sed: can't read /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf: No such file or directory
linode:~# ls -la /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13 Jul  2 20:10 /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
linode:~# 

Hah, we got invisible characters there: http://drupalcode.org/project/barracuda.git/blob/HEAD:/BARRACUDA.sh.txt#...

Not sure how that happened and when.

This should be fixed here.

It is a good start, but it doesn't fix the DNS issues in the localhost mode.

thanks for looking at this.. will test tonight

More progress: http://drupalcode.org/project/barracuda.git/commit/5c2956f

Now it allows to installs both Barracuda and Octopus instance (still tested only with Precise on a Mac based VirtualBox), but DNS for Octopus instance works only on command line for commands like `host` or `dig` (thanks to pdnsd cache) but doesn't work in a browser or with resolveip, so the workaround with not using resolveip is not really a fix, but helped to get to the core of the issue.

For some reason the wildcard DNS trick used with pdnsd no longer works as expected, so we need to find a better fix.

I know you will hate this, but is there a hard-coded hack for o1.sub.aegir.local ? on localhost its always going to be there anyway. ouaieeeiieeeee..

Well, you could just add (manually) entries to the /etc/hosts file, like below:

127.0.1.1 o1.sub.aegir.local
127.0.1.1 site1.o1.sub.aegir.local
127.0.1.1 site2.o1.sub.aegir.local
127.0.1.1 site2.o1.sub.aegir.local

This is how we did this (by hardcoding a few subdomains) before introducing local DNS wildcard, but it is rather ugly workaround.

but that's not going to get the browser to resolve? thanks again

Adding entries manually to /etc/hosts does fix the issue so it works also in the browser. The only ugly part of this is that there is no wildcard and you have to manually manage all sites subdomains in the /etc/hosts file on the VM.

now getting these install errors, but installation actually did continue !!

Octopus [Tue Jul  3 11:32:57 PDT 2012] ==> INIT B: Running hostmaster-install, please wait...
Octopus [Tue Jul  3 11:41:38 PDT 2012] ==> INIT B: Running hosting-dispatch (1/3), please wait...
Octopus [Tue Jul  3 11:42:10 PDT 2012] ==> INIT B: Running hosting-dispatch (2/3), please wait...
Octopus [Tue Jul  3 11:42:41 PDT 2012] ==> INIT B: Running hosting-dispatch (3/3), please wait...
Octopus [Tue Jul  3 11:43:21 PDT 2012] ==> INIT B: Simple check if Aegir install is successful
Octopus [Tue Jul  3 11:43:23 PDT 2012] ==> INIT B: Aegir install test result: OK
Octopus [Tue Jul  3 11:43:23 PDT 2012] ==> INIT B: Enhancing Aegir UI, please wait...
tar (child): aegir_custom_settings-6.x-1.10.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Yeah, I have seen that also and only after removing "search" directive added by parent system DNS to the /etc/resolv.conf it went further. I believe something has changed we didn't catch yet, as previously it worked like a breeze. We definitely need to find a permanent fix, so the VM will not depend on the parent system DNS, which may simply assign random IP from its own local network and this will break DNS inside VM because it will not match what pdnsd is trying to force. I'm not sure we can totally cut off DHCP stuff here, but we need to make the VM able to force its own DNS settings, since it should just work inside the VM and we can't really support all possible DNS/DHCP configs outside of VM on various systems, since any attempt to do that will destroy the simplicity we want to achieve here. We want to make this really plug & play stuff.

Hm, we should probably read the docs again and start from there: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html

it might also be worth using the VBOA4 (VirtualBox BOA version 4) image as a reference, it has some interesting VirtualBox networking adapters and also networking interfaces and host files within the VM

VBOA
https://ole-apps.sourcerepo.com/redmine/ole/projects/ole-toolkit/wiki/Vboa

VirtualBox appliance
http://download.ole.org/boa/boa4.ova

my scraps of notes
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OHYj7Z70x5cIPATVMBcRONCjicuUzXG63eZx...

hmm. my environment is

Host Windows 7
VirtualBox 4.1.18
Guest Ubuntu 12.04 Precise 32 bit, using NAT and Host Only adapters, no other config or changes

and also this book on Safari Books Online, its old, but perhaps the language is nicer to read than the online documentation
http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/operating-systems-and-server-admini...

my installation finally finished and failed, aegir.local and o1.sub.aegir.local both fail to resolve...

attached are logs, config etc

also regarding the fix for invisible characters
http://drupalcode.org/project/barracuda.git/blobdiff/e70b88272f0b315b3b1...

there seem to be weird (invisible?) characters in the install.log_.txt too ?

@dev286

I appreciate your input, but could you stop using those painful multi-dots? Thanks in advance.

at risk of link spamming, a nice article;

Massively Cloning A VirtualBox VM – The Smart Way
http://blog.dmitryleskov.com/virtualization/baseline-ubuntu-server-insta...
http://blog.dmitryleskov.com/virtualization/massively-cloning-virtualbox...

I used the networking interfaces set-up in VBOA4, with NAT, Bridged and Host Only adapters and managed to install BOA 2.04-dev mini option on Debian VirtualBox locally

  GNU nano 2.2.4                                      File: /etc/network/interfaces                                                                                    

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
#NetworkManager#
iface eth0 inet dhcp

allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
        post-up route del default dev $IFACE

# Host Network
allow-hotplug eth2
iface eth2 inet static
        address 192.168.56.101
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.56.0

I can also ssh (and I assume FTP) and http into the BOA VirtualBox guest BOA server from the VirtualBox host (Windows 7).

I can also set-up a site etc

I do however get the white-screen issue (error 500), but can sometimes navigate direct to pages... not sure whats going on

will upload logs and maybe even an export of the full VirtualBox image to Google Docs

next will try this on Ubuntu 12.04 guest

thanks everyone

and for anyone who can speak German, a 2011 VirtualBox print book
http://www.galileocomputing.de/katalog/buecher/titel/gp/titelID-2883?Gal...

ok, I just got local VirtualBox BOA 2.04 Dev in Windows 7 host on Ubuntu 12.04 guest running

slightly different networking set-up, hot-plug is not well supported in Ubuntu? NAT, Bridged, Host Only...

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

# Bridged
allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
        post-up route del default dev $IFACE

# Host Only Network
auto eth2
iface eth2 inet static
        address 192.168.56.23
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.56.0
        broadcast 192.168.56.255

host file

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       aegir.local o1.sub.aegir.local site1.o1.aegir.local


# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Interesting.

While I appreciate the effort to integrate local install with DNS on the host machine (or its parent network), I would prefer to keep BOA local install completely independent and self-contained. We will see what can we do to make that happen.

Re: #42 - this should be fixed in this commit.

Has anything come of #44 yet? I managed to get everything installed using head but it will only let me reach aegir.local and no o1.sub.aegir.local :(

Well im proud to say that I have it up and running but it doesnt obey the way you would like as per #44.

I installed head using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop version. For every site it needs then a change in the hosts file on both host and guest. First find your inet IP on the guest with ifconfig - 192.168.XX.XX

Then add to host file -

Guest:
127.0.0.1 o1.sub.aegir.local
127.0.0.1 mynewdevsite.boa

Host:
192.168.XX.XX o1.sub.aegir.local
192.168.XX.XX mynewdevsite.boa

Done! Now accessible on host or guest machine.

I guess it would work without the bridged adapter too just by adding the localhost 127.0.0.1 IP and each domain to the hosts file. Unfortunately the hosts file doesnt accept wildcards. Apparently dnsmasq works though so that is maybe a solution to install dnsmasq and then in dnsmasq.conf add the line "address=/localhost.com/127.0.0.1".

I can open a new issue if you like as I'm using Xen instead of Virtualbox. However, I'm getting what looks to be the same error.

Octopus [Fri Sep 7 18:41:29 EDT 2012] ==> 8s before we will continue...
Octopus [Fri Sep 7 18:41:45 EDT 2012] ==> INIT A: Aegir automated install script part A
Octopus [Fri Sep 7 18:41:45 EDT 2012] ==> INFO A: Checking OCTOPUS version, please wait...
Octopus [Fri Sep 7 18:41:45 EDT 2012] ==> ERROR: This OCTOPUS version is outdated and will not work correctly
Octopus [Fri Sep 7 18:41:45 EDT 2012] ==> Please download and use new stable version:
Octopus [Fri Sep 7 18:41:45 EDT 2012] ==> wget -q -U iCab http://files.aegir.cc/versions/OCTOPUS.sh.txt
Octopus [Fri Sep 7 18:41:45 EDT 2012] ==> You can also use (for testing) latest dev version:
Octopus [Fri Sep 7 18:41:45 EDT 2012] ==> wget -q -U iCab http://drupalcode.org/project/barracuda.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/OCTOPUS.sh.txt
Octopus [Fri Sep 7 18:41:45 EDT 2012] ==> Bye
Octopus [Fri Sep 7 18:41:45 EDT 2012] ==> FATAL ERROR: AegirSetupA installer failed
Octopus [Fri Sep 7 18:41:45 EDT 2012] ==> FATAL ERROR: Aborting Octopus installer NOW!

I haven't attempted any troubleshooting yet. The guest VM was Debian Squeeze bare as recommended.

Still on Xen. Deleted the VM and recreated.

This time I used head for BOA install. Install completed. I do seem to get errors (and emails) along these lines...

***
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
Subject: *** SECURITY information for aegir.local ***
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 19:54:16 -0400 (EDT)
Status: R

aegir.local : Sep 7 19:54:16 : o1 : unable to resolve host aegir.local
***

Note: I did not do anything with /etc/hosts on the VM prior to starting install. However, these errors don't appear to prevent successful install.

Everything seems to work except for DNS wildcards so I have to add entries to /etc/hosts on any local network computer I want to use to access the sites running on the VM (i.e. I can't just add aegir.local to /etc/hosts).

I wish you success in getting #44 working.

lol :)

I just did an install using Ubuntu 12.04.1 alternative guest on VMware Workstation 9 host (Ubuntu 12.04.1 host)

I get the errors of 55 and aegir.local works, o1.sub.aegir.local is "under construction"

I am guessing there is an issue with the new 12.04.1 changes to DNS management ?
"Network Manager now uses dnsmasq for improved DNS reliability and support for split-DNS on VPN links. You can learn more here."
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop

There's an issue where wildcard dns isn't working as expected in boa local installs.
You have to manually manage your wildcard dns sites in local hosts.

On Ubuntu 12.04.1 host running VMWare 9 Workstation with Ubuntu 12.04.1 alternative install as guest got BOA 204 dev to fully install

accessing guest from host using ssh & http successfully using NAT (default networking)

the wildcard problem persists and so have to add manual entries to hosts file on host and guest

host /etc/hosts

172.16.**.*** aegir.local o1.sub.aegir.local site1.o1.sub.aegir.local *.aegir.local

and
guest /etc/hosts

127.0.1.1 aegir.local o1.sub.aegir.local site1.o1.aegir.local *.aegir.local

really looking forward to *.aegir.local working again !

but excited its at this stage, and judging by average release dates of BOA we are not too far from a new 204 stable release

guest /etc/hosts snippet in lieu of wildcards

127.0.1.1       acquia626p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       civicrm3486262p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       civicrm4087152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       civicrm4156262p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       civicrm4157152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       commerce1917152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       commons2966262p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       conference10rc16262p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       drupal6262d001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       drupal6262p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       drupal6262s001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       drupal7152d001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       drupal7152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       drupal715s001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       drupal80dev120915p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       drupal80dev120918edge.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       martplug10b1b715p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       mnews1226262p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       nodestream156262p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       nodestream20b17152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       octopusvideo10a67152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       openacademy10b37152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       openatrium1516262p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       opendeals10b117152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       openenterprise10rc37152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       openoutreach10rc27152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       openchurch110a77152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       openpublic10b37152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       openpublish30b27152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       openscholar20rc16262p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       panopoly10b57152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       prosepoint0436262p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       ubercart2926262p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       ubercart3127152p001.aegir.local
127.0.1.1       videola10a36262p001.aegir.local

Did anyone test #48? Can that be added to the script?

I'm running 12.04.1 and was able to get things mostly working on my laptop once I figured out to install from head instead of stable.. so thank you!

I am having trouble figuring out the best way to get the wildcard subdomain working. DNSMASQ doesn't seem to have any config files as its managed by NetworkManager (As a plugin maybe?). The best possible solution I saw was to get rid of NetworkManager completely and just use DNSMASQ to do what needs to be done. But - I am wary of doing something wacky that will mess up my local dev machine.

For now, I am manually editing the HOSTS file to set up my sites, which is working fine. But I'm hoping to encourage more of my fellow devs to use this, and getting the wildcard setup is super handy.

I'm still running into this problem (not in a virtual machine). Tried it with Debian 6 and Ubuntu Server 12.04.1. I keep running into this error similar to #2:

Barracuda [Fri Nov  9 14:29:04 CET 2012] ==> INFO: NORMAL INIT
Barracuda [Fri Nov  9 14:29:04 CET 2012] ==> INFO: Easy Localhost Setup Mode Active
Barracuda [Fri Nov  9 14:29:04 CET 2012] ==> INFO: Creating your /root/.barracuda.cnf config file
Barracuda [Fri Nov  9 14:29:05 CET 2012] ==> INFO: We need to install wget, axel, aptitude, netcat & git first, please wait...
Barracuda [Fri Nov  9 14:29:21 CET 2012] ==> INFO: Testing GitHub, Drupal and Gitorious servers availability, please wait...
Barracuda [Fri Nov  9 14:29:23 CET 2012] ==> INFO: GitHub mirror repository will be used for this install
Barracuda [Fri Nov  9 14:29:23 CET 2012] ==> INFO: Downloading little helpers, please wait...
Barracuda [Fri Nov  9 14:29:32 CET 2012] ==> INFO: Checking BARRACUDA version...
Barracuda [Fri Nov  9 14:29:32 CET 2012] ==> ERROR: This BARRACUDA version is outdated and will not work correctly
Barracuda [Fri Nov  9 14:29:32 CET 2012] ==> Please download and use new version:
Barracuda [Fri Nov  9 14:29:32 CET 2012] ==> wget -q -U iCab http://files.aegir.cc/versions/BARRACUDA.sh.txt
Barracuda [Fri Nov  9 14:29:32 CET 2012] ==> You can also use (for testing) latest dev version:
Barracuda [Fri Nov  9 14:29:32 CET 2012] ==> wget -q -U iCab http://drupalcode.org/project/barracuda.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/BARRACUDA.sh.txt
Barracuda [Fri Nov  9 14:29:32 CET 2012] ==> Bye
Octopus [Fri Nov  9 14:29:33 CET 2012] ==> ALRT: Percona server not running!
Octopus [Fri Nov  9 14:29:33 CET 2012] ==> EXIT: We can't proceed and will exit now
Octopus [Fri Nov  9 14:29:33 CET 2012] ==> HINT: Please start Percona server and then run Octopus installer again
Octopus [Fri Nov  9 14:29:33 CET 2012] ==> Bye

On both Debian and Ubuntu. Tried both with http://files.aegir.cc/BOA.sh.txt (as per INSTALL.txt) and with http://files.aegir.cc/versions/BARRACUDA.sh.txt, as in the above message (with _EASY_PUBLIC=NO, and _EASY_LOCALHOST=YES).

Although I'm not using a virtual machine, I've also tried adding entries to /etc/hosts and adding local IP in .barracuda.cnf as other above tried.

Anything else I can try?

confirmed, I got the same error as #58
running 'boa in-stable local my@email mini' in debian 6 32 (virtualbox) .

I'm getting the same problem as #58.
Tested both on a Debian 6.0.6 and a Ubuntu 12.04.1 server 64bit Virtualbox VMs.
On both systems I've kept as vanilla as possible (no updates, no selection on tasksel).
The commands used were #boa in-stable local my@email and #boa in-stable local my@email max.
I've also checked the .barracuda.cnf file and there is no _EASY_LOCALHOST=YES option available.
Finally I've downloaded the BARRACUDA.sh.txt as indicated, set the _EASY_LOCALHOST=YES, but it still says that the BARRACUDA version is outdated and will not work correctly.

Should I try anything else?
Thanks.
Victor Cardoso

Uh, sorry, we have managed to break both local and public installs because of stupid omission: http://drupalcode.org/project/barracuda.git/patch/f24fd37

Now there should be no errors like "This BARRACUDA version is outdated and will not work correctly" etc. but still, we didn't work on debugging localhost based install further before BOA-2.0.4 release, so there could be some other issues we didn't catch yet.

can I request that localhost install be considered a critical part of BOA?

I for one, have almost given-up completely on BOA because there was no LOCALHOST solution

have been waiting for months for 2.04 exactly because it did have a WORKING localhost solution

now, you've released it without testing Localhost?

sites that get hosted on BOA should start on localhost BOA

sigh

I've installed it yesterday and it went just perfect, without any errors, on a Debian 6.0.6 virtualbox machine. Thanks @omega8cc!
Now I'll start testing it as a development platform.

Just installed latest head on a debian 6.0.6 virtualbox machine with local install, bridged network adapter and everything installed smooth as clockwork. Have to add the domains in hosts file both guest and host as I did in #47 but thats fine by me.

I did a quick install on stable 2.04 on Ubuntu 12.04.1 host and Ubuntu 12.0.4.1 using VMware 9.01 workstation and it seems to work fine.. didnt test host to guest connections, or host file config but expect that to work

am also interested in revisiting this concept of creating or intengrating with one of the existing Drupal IDE VirtualBox images
i.e.
Quickstart for BOA ? Local to Production Pipeline
http://groups.drupal.org/node/160449
judging by page rankings this is a popular idea

candidates are
Drupal Quickstart
http://drupal.org/project/quickstart

DrupalPro
http://drupal.org/project/drupalpro

with some new work by Dave Hall
http://vimeo.com/52824383

anyone interested, email or message me

As documentation and Grace @ Omega8.cc had suggested, I've always installed BOA locally on Ubuntu Precise with no trouble at all. In fact I use a local DNS server on the LAN which does wildcard dns for me so I don't have that issue either.

whats the "local DNS server" ? os, DNS server?

ok, here is a weird thing

I did an EASY PUBLIC INSTALL of BOA 204 head on Ubuntu host / Ubuntu 12.0.4.1 Precise Desktop edition guest on Vmware workstation 9.01 using Linode's DNS manager.. install goes fine, except wildcard doesn't work

makes me think it might be specific to Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.1 which has some Network Manager / dnsmasq changes

see #13, #57

I'll try this again using Precise server and report back.

ps: I know I should start a new thread, but I guess it might be related

OK, just re-installed using Ubuntu Precise server and NOT desktop of a public install and it worked perfectly...

will complete the test doing local install later in week, but I'd put money on the Ubuntu Desktop Netmanager / dnsmasq changes as being source of my woe

cheers

actually, spoke to soon, seems wildcards work when they are NOT the chosen BOA install subdomain wilcard subdomains, i.e. not managed by BOA? but wildcarding just from DNS manager? I think

my test
on same site using Acquia Pressflow platform

WORKS
dev-acquia6.domain.com

NOT WORK
dev-acquia6.sub.domain.com
dev.acquia.o1.sub.domain.com
www.acquia.o1.sub.domain.com

WEIRD !

this seems like a substantive article on Ubuntu 12.04 new DNS management
http://www.stgraber.org/2012/02/24/dns-in-ubuntu-12-04/

@dev286 How do you run this install? I mean the exact command used.

I've encountered the same error as @dev286.
I've installed a fresh Debian 6.0.6 64bit VM on Virtualbox and, prior to runnig the install script, I've only modified the /etc/ssh/sshd_config to allow key login instead of password. The config file is attached, and also a screenshot of the VM global configuration.
As install command I've used: boa in-stable local <em>myuser@mydomain.com</em> max
I've then tried twice with the same output. Octopus does not install anything as it blocks just after the Barracuda stage.
As attachment is the output of the install process.

I'm currently installing a new VM with Ubuntu server 12.04.1 LTS 64bit to check if it is something to do with Debian (I've just noticed that on the project page it is "best with" Ubuntu, but I had the impression that Debian before was also OK).

@vcardoso Your install log shows different problem. Please open new issue. Thanks.

The end of the install log is exactly the same as #74, right?

I believe you're refering to the another error message:

Barracuda [Mon Dec 24 12:02:04 WET 2012] ==> INFO: Installing Aegir Master Instance, please wait...
==> FATAL ERROR: This server does not have a hostname that resolves to an IP address
==> FATAL ERROR: Aborting AegirSetupM installer NOW!
Barracuda [Mon Dec 24 12:02:28 WET 2012] ==> FATAL ERROR: AegirSetupM installer failed
Barracuda [Mon Dec 24 12:02:28 WET 2012] ==> FATAL ERROR: Aborting Barracuda installer NOW!

I'll take a deeper look at the logs and open a new issue.

Yes, it is a new bug.

@vcardoso right, it is the same at the end, but your report is more complete, so it revealed the real problem.

New issue: #1873478: Localhost install broken because getent test is used

I just tested upgrade from some old BOA-2.0.4-dev installed on July 3rd to latest BOA-2.0.5 stable and then BOA-2.0.6-dev and it worked just fine.

But what is even more interesting, wildcard DNS worked out of the box all the time - also before the upgrade.

I didn't modify anything in the networking, either on the VirtualBox or my Air host system, it is just a pure BOA install in the Ubuntu Precise VM - installed as-is.

Please check some screenshots below to see its configuration and some results.

Note that I have upgraded VirtualBox to 4.2.6 and my host system is OS X 10.8.2, while there is no extra, external DNS server used, besides the same Google nameservers, as shown in the screenshots, used both in my Air and my AirPort WiFi, which is connected to the Internet via VPN.

The goal for the BOA localhost install was always the same - a self-contained VM, with local DNS and no dependency on the parent system/machine/network setup, because it is already beyond the scope of the BOA project and can't be managed by BOA itself. Maybe when we will convert BOA to Ansible, we could do more, but not yet. Any cross-system communication, so you could access the VM from the parent system, to make the development easier, so you can use your desktop tools and environment, is for sure a good idea, but it belongs to the how-to which can't be unified, because those parent systems and their networking can be different, so this kind of setup requires some extra, manual steps and can't be covered by the BOA project itself.

That said, I tend to consider this particular issue as fixed (note: it was a bug report and not a feature request).

Note also that once we have a self-contained localhost install working, extending this is a matter of writing some tutorial(s) with screenshots to follow for Linux/OS X/ Windows users, since all those parent environments have their own requirements/specifics, which may further differ depending on both OS and VirtualBox versions.

I think we need a separate, meta issue to discuss further development, which could include something like already existing vBOA initiative.

Some related posts and comments we could turn into a meta-issue:

http://drupal.org/node/1593980#comment-6192270
https://ole-apps.sourcerepo.com/redmine/ole/projects/ole-toolkit/wiki/Vboa
http://groups.drupal.org/node/239838

Fixed also for Debian Squeeze: http://drupal.org/node/1873478#comment-6876474

I hope it's OK to reopen this. I've installed BOA 2.05 on a Ubuntu 12.04.2-amd64 desktop virtualbox.
Host system is also Ubuntu 12.04, using Virtualbox 4.2.8 from https://launchpad.net/~debfx/+archive/virtualbox.

The installation of BOA 2.05 completed succesfully, without any errors. Domain aegir.root works, but subdomains don't (unless I add them in /etc/hosts of course).

I've compared everything to the screenshots above in #83, and everything on the guest is the same, except for this, I get:

hostname -i
10.0.2.15
hostname -I
10.0.2.15

If I add 127.0.1.1 aegir.local in /etc/hosts, hostname -i is correct, but this doesn't solve the issue.

I tried restarting pdnsd, which gives:

sudo service pdnsd restart
 * Stopping pdnsd                                                        [ OK ] 
resolvconf: Error: /etc/resolv.conf isn't a symlink, not doing anything.
 * Starting pdnsd                                                        [ OK ] 
resolvconf: Error: /etc/resolv.conf isn't a symlink, not doing anything.

So I'm guessing there's still something wrong, similar maybe to what was observed in #12?

I've also tried upgrading to head, no difference. The virtualbox is using NAT on adapter1.

Could this be due to settings on the host side? Or still a problem in the BOA virtualbox?

Post the contents of /etc/resolv.conf from this VM and try clean BOA-2.0.6-dev install (not an upgrade from 2.0.5) - note also that we have tested this with official Virtualbox 4.2.6, but no idea if that matters.

The BOA 2.0.5 stable /etc/resolv.conf looks like this:

# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

And this is a file, not a symlink, as the pdnsd message states.

For a clean install of head (2.0.6-dev):

# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 127.0.0.1

And this is a symlink to /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf; (re)starting pdnsd serivice works.

But, still the same problem: subdomains are not working.

Status.

I believe that the pdnsd configuration related issues have been fixed in recent releases (and maybe HEAD). If not, please open *new* issue.