Vagrantfile for VirtualBox virtual nodes from a build .bin file

Welcome to the nycmeshfeed wiki!

To create a VirtualBox virtual node based on the firmware,

• Install VirtualBox.org

• Install VagrantUp.com

• Create mesh/build and mesh/node directories: mkdir mesh/build; mkdir mesh/node

• cd mesh/build

• vagrant init starrychloe/qmp-nycmesh-3.2.1

• vagrant up

• vagrant ssh

  • If vagrant ssh appears not to work and appears to hang, try ls to see if you are in fact logged in but just not seeing a command prompt. exit from the guest and create this file, changing the path for your host system:

  $ cat ssh-config
  Host default
    HostName 127.0.0.1
    User vagrant
    Port 2222
    UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
    StrictHostKeyChecking no
    PasswordAuthentication no
    IdentityFile C:/Users/Chloe/workspace/mesh/build/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key
    IdentitiesOnly yes
    LogLevel FATAL
  

  • Then use ssh -F ssh-config default to log in.

• cd qmpfw-nycmesh-3.2.1

• Build the firmware based on the instructions here: https://github.com/nycmeshnet/nycmeshfeed. However this has already been done.

• Copy the firmware image back to your host: cp images/qMp*.bin /vagrant

• Exit the guest build box: exit

• cd ../node

• Copy this Vagrantfile into the node folder:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  latest_bin = `ls -t ../build/*.bin | head -1`.strip
  #latest_bin = Dir.glob('../build/*.bin').sort{ |a,b| File.new(a).stat <=> File.new(b).stat }.last
  vdi_file = 'nycmesh-qmp-openwrt.vdi'
  system "vboxmanage convertfromraw --format vdi #{latest_bin} #{vdi_file}" unless File.exist?(vdi_file)
  config.vm.box = "centos/7"
  config.vm.network "public_network"
  config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.1.1"
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.memory = "64"
    # add the newly created build disk firmware
    #vb.customize ['storageattach', :id, '--storagectl', 'IDE', '--port', 0, '--device', 0, '--type', 'hdd', '--medium', "none"]
    vb.customize ['storageattach', :id, '--storagectl', 'IDE', '--port', 0, '--device', 0, '--type', 'hdd', '--medium', "nycmesh-qmp-openwrt.vdi"]
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--ostype", "Linux26"]
  end
  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "" do
    # delete the placeholder dummy hdd image. there should be a better way.
    # NO WAY TO GET THE DUMMY HDD FILE NAME AFTER THE INSTANCE IS CREATED AND BEFORE THE NEW VDI IS INSTALLED!
    # id = File.read(".vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/id") 
    # hdd_file = `vboxmanage showvminfo #{id}`.split(/\n/).grep(/IDE \(0, 0\): /).first.split(/ /)[3]
    # puts hdd_file
    # File.delete(hdd_file) if hdd_file.index 'centos-7-1-1.x86_64.vmdk'
  end
end

• Generate the box: vagrant up

There's no known way to SSH into the node at this point (see https://superuser.com/questions/1309253/why-cant-i-log-into-my-dropbear-virtualbox-with-ssh-ssh-exchange-identificati). For now, open the VirtualBox GUI, select the node, and click Show to view the console. Press ENTER to get a root command prompt.