Vagrant and OVA Downloads fixed / [WAS] Vagrant VMDK file broken?

[Ben Howard]

After some hacking away, I have confirmed a fix [1,2]. The snappy
Vagrant Boxes and Cloud OVA downloads now work again.

The root cause was our switch to GPT partitions. There is a bug with
Virtualbox where disks that have been converted from one format to
another (in our case raw to VMDK), use GPT/UEFI and are imported as
OV{A,F}, that Virtualbox fails to import. The work around is to copy the
bits into a final disk rather than to convert the disk.

~Ben

[1]
https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/snappy/devel/core/current/devel-core-amd64-vagrant.box
[2]
https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/snappy/devel/core/current/devel-core-amd64-cloud.ova

On 01/21/2015 10:19 AM, Ben Howard wrote:
> I have been able to reproduce this and am working on a fix.
>
> ~Ben
>
>
> On 01/20/2015 02:07 PM, Ben Howard wrote:
>> I saw this earlier as well, but was unable to reproduce after digging
>> in. Do you have another Vagrant running?
>>
>> ~Ben
>>
>>
>> On 01/20/2015 09:07 AM, Marvin Reimer wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I recently had time to spin up the Vagrant box for Ubuntu Core.
>>> However I've got errors and the VMDK seems corrupted.
>>> Details: https://gist.github.com/therealmarv/effdae09bfa5fc0f7ca8
>>>
>>> I have no problem creating other Vagrant (1.6.5) machines with my
>>> Virtualbox (4.3.20r96996).
>>>
>>> Does a fresh installation of Ubuntu Core work for anybody?
>>>
>>> Commands for a fresh Ubuntu Core installation:
>>> vagrant box remove ubuntu/ubuntu-core-devel-amd64
>>> vagrant init ubuntu/ubuntu-core-devel-amd64
>>> vagrant up
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Marvin Reimer
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

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Ben Howard
ben.howard at canonical.com
Canonical
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