I concur, it does appear to be a problem in VirtualBox only. The adapter is being kept by the VirtualBox Manager process, which, if you leave running for long enough, will crash and reset. Thank you for looking at this.

I do have another potential issue for you. This one is to do with uploading an image. I have created a new Image on the server, given it a name and OS type (Linux). I then created a task for my Host so that an Image would be taken from the Host (a Debian VM) and uploaded to the server. On PXE boot the task begins, an image is taken, but it is never uploaded to the server (I get the attached error on the host).

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Thanks Tom. I have tested this functionality and it works as expected. This also fixes an issue in the pxe menu whereby you could not delete a host.

Another potential issue for you, this one has a suitable work around though. If I Register a host through the pxe menu, allow the machine to reboot and load straight back into the pxe screen where it is configuring, I get a sequential list of errors and cannot boot. This only happens when I have allowed the kernel to reboot the system, if I do it manually it is fine. The work around is to just reboot manually.

It may be of note that this is only tested through VM’s in VirtualBox, I have not tried this setup on real hardware as of yet.

I will keep implementing and let you know if I have any more issues

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Potential issue found: On the Host Management page, deleting a host does not work. You are firstly taken to a confirmation page, once confirming the deletion you are sent to a blank page. Having navigated back to the hosts list still shows the host.

Using r1434. Downloaded via tarball.

I am going to give 0.33b a go in a test environment now. Installing on an Ubunutu 13.10 Server VM.

Given the increasing use of this system within many organisations, perhaps it is time to trust a beta.

I am a Software Developer who runs an extensive testing network that could really benefit from this technology. I began looking at this around a year ago and ran in to some trouble getting it setup and the imaging working, therefore, I left it at the time. Having seen a large number of changes being made in recent weeks, I am keen to start looking at this again. Do we have a date for the next official release? I am eager to get working on this but can’t really justify using a beta version in a production environment.

ssx4life, I shall have a go at loading one of the pre-built VM’s into Virtual Box tomorrow evening. My main concern is that I will miss part of the installation process when setting up the production environment, but, I expect this can be overcome be traversing through the user guides on the Wiki pages a few times.

I shall keep you updated on progress as I go. Hopefully, once this initial testing stage is done, I should be integrating the solution into the production environment within a month or so. My existing solution, a combination of consumer version of Windows 7, TFTPD32 and a few Windows Shares is so unreliable I want to get something better in place ASAP.

Thanks for your help so far, I look forward to posting on my successes with Fog over coming days/weeks.

Thank you both for your prompt replies. The test setup will be using solely Virtual Box where my host machine is Windows 7 64bit, Virtual Box 4.1.12 with Ubuntu 10.04 (x86) VM server and n number of client VM’s (all of which will be x86).

Once I am happy I understand the setup within Virtual Box I wish to do the following:

I have a single (x64) server, running Ubuntu (10.04, x64) with 2 NIC cards. NIC card 1 will link to a small 16 port 10/100 Mbps unmanaged switch connecting to 15 client computers (all x86 only). The second NIC will connect to another 16 port 10/100 Mbps unmanaged switch connecting to 14 client computers (all x64 only). There is a third NIC on the PC (on board Ethernet) which I am using as a debug bridge into the PC from the other side of the site (as this small, home style, network is isolated from the company domain).

From a single instance of Fog (which by the way, is the best solution I have found to date), I want to be able to distribute OS’s to any one of the 29 machines connected to the server. Majority of the client machines have SATA 2 HDD’s, connected via on board Ethernet, middle range Business class hardware.

The original post is regarding the configuration of Fog within Virtual Box, having a server VM and a client VM, however, if you could provide information on replicating my production setup in Virtual Box or setting up my production setup, that would be greatly appreciated.

If there is anything that I could put back into the community, (VM clones, documentation, screenshots, setup logs etc), let me know and I would be happy to provide them.

Many Thanks

Hi,

I am trying to test the capabilities, install procedure and usability of Fog and want to do this within the latest version of VirtualBox.

I have downloaded version 10.04 of Ubuntu, as that is the supported version for the latest version of Fog, but I cannot seem to get anything working.

Is there any chance somebody could provide a tutorial, for beginners, that goes through the setting up of a Virtual Box VM (with the correct settings for Fog), installing Ubuntu/Fog on one VM, then having a client VM boot through PXE and run memtest or something.

I don’t know where my problem lies, installation, configuration, VM settings. It would be really helpful if a simple, concise guide was available. If I could get it working I would create one myself but unfortunately I have had no luck.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Kind Regards