Fabric8-installer openshift stopped working in window 10

[Alex T]

Hi

I have been using the fabric8-installer to install Openshift with fabric8 on my window 10 laptop (vagrant 1.8.1 + VirtualBox 5.0.10) a while back. This worked perfectly fine until a recent Window 10 update.  VirtualBox 5.0.10 no longer working as it couldn't start any more. 

Reading in the Vagrant project forum, I understands that vagrant 1.8.6 + VirutalBox 5.1 should work. So, I installed both of them. VirtualBox works again, however, the fabric8-installer hangs at "enabling network interface" and couldn't go any further.

I wonder if anyone experience this issue ? If any solution available ?

Thanks

Alex

[Kurt T Stam]

Hi Alex,

The settings in the Vagrant file assume it can use 2 vcpus

https://github.com/fabric8io/fabric8-installer/blob/master/vagrant/openshift/Vagrantfile#L306

and 8GB of RAM

https://github.com/fabric8io/fabric8-installer/blob/master/vagrant/openshift/Vagrantfile#L11

Does your machine have > 8 GB of RAM? If not, you may want to set the FABRIC8_VM_MEMORY to something like 4 GB.

--Kurt

p.s. I'm don't have a windows10 machine, but these are my experiences with OSX on a machine with 8GB of RAM.

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[Alex T]

Hi Kurt

Thanks for the reply. 

But memory isn't the issue as I have 16GB RAM on my laptop and this configuration worked fine before the update with VirtualBox 5.0.

I am wondering if this is a problem with VirtualBox 5.1. I wonder if anyone manage to run openshift on it using the fabric8-installer ?

Regards

Alex

[Stan Lewis]

I recently switched my Windows 10 machine over to linux, but before that I was running kubernetes via minikube nicely:

http://fabric8.io/guide/getStarted/minikube.html

Using the hyperv driver.  It's a bit of work as you have to set up docker-machine and the hyperv driver for it, I used 'chocolatey' to install that stuff:

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[Stan Lewis]

Damn e-mail :-) , link to chocolatey:

https://chocolatey.org/packages/docker-machine

Did have issues getting 'minishift' running though, which is probably a bit more like the fabric8 vagrant image in that it runs openshift rather than vanilla kubernetes -> https://github.com/jimmidyson/minishift/issues/102

but it's worth giving it a go, as running this stuff on hyperv was a lot nicer than on virtualbox.

[Alex T]

Thanks Stan,  I shall give it a go.

However,  this works fine in my office PC (which is on window 7) and ideally I would like to have the same setup in my laptop.

Had a read about Vagrant + windows 10 issue, came up with this issue :

https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/7458

Seems like similar issue that I am having except that they at least had  "vagrant up" successfully done once ! :)  This has been fixed 5 days  ago, i guess worth a try.