Summary
This post describes how to get the Puppet Learning VM running on a Mac OS/X system. It uses Parallels as the VM hosting system (for reasons which will become apparent).
Puppet is a popular infrastructure automation tool and the learning environment they provide can be downloaded from here
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Virtual Box Fail (Oh no it didn't)
The recommendation for the VM download which is an OVA archive is to use either VMWare or Virtual Box as the host. As I have a Mac the VM Ware product is VM Ware Fusion which is not free. Virtual Box is free for personal use so I decided to use that.
I imported the OVA into Virtual Box (version 5) but found that when I started the VM it threw errors about not finding the scsi disk. I played around with different hardware configs in the Virtual Box settings but it didn't seem to make any difference.
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UPDATE: I emailed the Puppet Learning Team to let them know about my issues and they asked me to gather some stats from the problem. However wouldn't you know it, I re-ran the import and it all worked fine in Virtual Box. Looking into it I think running the VM as 2 CPUs on my 2 core iMac was just a bit too much of a strain for it so it was losing CPU cycles and lost connection with the virtual disk.
As I normally use Parallels for VM hosting on my Mac I decided to see if there was a way to import the Puppet Learning VM into Parallels. Super rata 3 mac os.
Parallels isn't free either but as I have already paid for it and use it to run other systems it made sense for me to try it once Virtual Box failed.
Converting OVA files into Parallels
There is a very handy knowledge Base article here on how to convert OVA files to vmx files for Parallels to then convert.
Marty thinks 4th dimensionally mac os. Following that KB article as a guide I first downloaded the OVF Conversion tools from the VMWare site (You'll need to register for an account on the VMWare site but it is free).
Run the installer for the OVF tool and you are then ready to create the VMX and VMDK files from the OVA archive you have previously downloaded and unzipped.
Open a Terminal session and change directory to where the ova file is. Then run the following command.
/Applications/VMware OVF Tool/ovftool --lax puppet-2015.2.0-learning-2.30.ova puppet.vmx
Opening OVA source: puppet-2015.2.0-learning-2.30.ova
The manifest validates
Opening VMX target: puppet.vmx
Warning:
- Hardware compatibility check is disabled.
Writing VMX file: puppet.vmx
Transfer Completed
Warning:
- No manifest entry found for: 'puppet-2015.2.0-learning-2.30.ovf'.
- File is missing from the manifest: 'puppet-2015.2.0-learning-2.30.ovf'.
Completed successfully
Then launch Parallels Desktop and go to File -> Open and chose the puppet.vmx file. A message comes up saying it needs to convert the file. (Click the pic to embiggen)
From here click Convert and then choose the location where you want to store the converted VM.
You will see a warning like the one below saying Parallels cannot determine the VM Guest O/S but you can ignore that and just continue.
The conversion process takes a few minutes and at the end you will be asked if you want to start the VM to complete the conversion i.e. installed Parallels Tools.
Click No here as you want to change some settings on the network card before starting the VM.
Then choose Actions->Configure from the Puppet VM window (or click on the Gear in the top right, or go to the Parallels Desktop Control Center (sic) and click the gear there).
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This will bring up the hardware config window for the VM. Confirm it has 2 CPUs and 2048Mb of memory and then click the Network tab and change the network card to be 'virtio' and the network type to be Bridged to the default adapter ( or choose a specific adapter if you know what you need for your Mac). Finally click on the Generate button by the mac address and generate a new one just to be on the safe side.
You can now start your VM and it should pick up its own IP address from your default DHCP using the same network settings as your Mac.
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When the VM has started it will display the IP address it has and you can use this in a browser to access the first quest. You can also ssh into it from another terminal session on your Mac.
If there is no IP address shown after the http:// on the screen then double check the network settings in Parallels for the VM as it means it hasn't acquired an IP address. (You'll need to shutdown the VM to change most settings).
At this point you could ( and maybe should ) install Parallels Tools however as I don't want to mess with the VM I have left it until I feel it really needs them.
