#16671 closed defect (fixed)
Ubuntu 16.04 Cloud Image (OVF) not working
| Reported by: | Seafire | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 5.1.18 |
| Keywords: | ubuntu, cloud, | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Windows |
Description
The standard OVA provided by the Official Ubuntu Cloud image repository (https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/xenial/current/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova) doesn't fully boot after being imported into the latest VirtualBox version (5.1.18). I'm preeseding the user-data to cloud-init via a cdrom (iso) but the VM still doesn't show any login prompt. The same image boots successfully on VMWare and KVM.
To reproduce the problem simply download and import the image.
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Change History (6)
by , 7 years ago
| Attachment: | ubuntuCloudImage_vboxlog.txt added |
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comment:1 by , 7 years ago
It helps to enable the first serial port, set it to COM1 and use a file as output. Looks like the guest is trying to connect to 169.254.169.254 which isn't reachable for some reason.
follow-up: 4 comment:2 by , 7 years ago
Ah, thank you for your answer. Yes that's normal behavior, the OS is trying to reach the metadata server since this is a Cloud image. To avoid that one can provide a pre-seeded ISO which contains the required metadata.
So, with the serial port enabled I could finally debug the problem. The image now boots successfully so I guess you can close the ticket.
comment:4 by , 6 years ago
Replying to Seafire:
So, with the serial port enabled I could finally debug the problem. The image now boots successfully so I guess you can close the ticket.
How did you debug and finally solve the problem? I enabled COM1 and have it write to a file. I see the requests to 169.254.169.254 in the log looking like:
[ 35.101118] cloud-init[944]: 2017-12-30 22:13:42,144 - url_helper.py[WARNING]: Calling 'http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/instance-id' failed [1/120s]: request error [HTTPConnectionPool(host='169.254.169.254', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /2009-04-04/meta-data/instance-id (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f9329465fd0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 113] No route to host',))]
The console however reads something like: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
The very first screen in the console reads: error: no such device: root.
Log of the VM