Add VirtualBox tools support

[wlan0]

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html

[miztiik]

I second this, I would really like built in support for VirtualBox Tools

[ibuildthecloud]

This request has been coming more and more. Especially since RancherOS works in docker-machine and people expect folder sharing to work like b2d. We are in the process of releasing v0.4 now and we can't squeeze in this feature. But it think we can get it in the next release.

[miztiik]

Thanks for the update,

I am seriously considering this platform to host some of my applications, so would like to know what is the expected time frame. I have been researching rancher os only recently so not sure about your release cycles, Can you please tell us about your release cycle, When would be the next release 'tentatively'

[ibuildthecloud]

We don't have a fixed release cycle yet. We should create one soon, but releases have been pretty ad hoc right now . V0.4 should be released by the 26th. The vbox support I won't expect until 4 weeks after that. After v0.4 you should expect a monthly release. We'd like to get that shorter but we've found testing all the permutations of clouds and baremetal to be pretty time consuming.

[philipz]

I used docker-machine to create RancherOS on VMware vShpere was timeout. And by docker-machine just create a VM, it didn't run ros install -d /dev/sda automatic. So, I couldn't use docker-machine to ssh this VM.
https://gist.github.com/philipz/2eb126f6c68568a1ef57
http://docs.rancher.com/os/running-rancheros/workstation/docker-machine/
http://docs.rancher.com/os/running-rancheros/server/install-to-disk/

[zot24]

Have being a while since the last time this thread was update (we are now on RancherOS 0.7.1) I was wondering if there is any news or have anyone manage to make RancherOS works properly with VirtualBox and share local folders?

[xinity]

tried with rancherOS LTS, nothing comes up :(
That's a pity as i wished for replacing boot2docker with RancherOS.

Please do something for us rancherOS fans !!!

[niusmallnan]

@kingsd041 we need to do something like this: https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/blob/master/Dockerfile#L362-L380
May need to introduce it through os-services.

[kingsd041]

We have supported VirtualBox tools in the RancherOS v1.5.1-rc1 version.

How to use

First, you need to start the virtualbox-tools service in rancheros.

sudo ros service enable virtualbox-tools
sudo ros service up virtualbox-tools

Note: if you switch consoles, you may need to re-run ros service restart virtualbox-tools.

After the virtualbox-tools service starts, it will automatically load the vbox module and start the VBoxService process.

lsmod | grep -i vbox
vboxsf                 49152  0
vboxguest             258048  2 vboxsf

ps -ef | grep VBoxService
root      1898     1  0 09:12 ?        00:00:00 [VBoxService] <defunct>
root      1900     1  0 09:12 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/VBoxService --disable-automount

At this point, you can mount the shared folder with mount.vboxsf test /mnt. If you want to mount it automatically, you can also do the following:

#cloud-config
write_files:
  - path: /etc/rc.local
    permissions: "0755"
    owner: root
    content: |
      #!/bin/bash
      for _ in {1..10}
      do
          if [ -f /sbin/mount.vboxsf ];then
              mount.vboxsf ansible /mnt/ansible
              break
          else
              sleep 1
          fi
      done

Note:

1. We do not support the auto-mount feature of shared folders.
2. Using mount.vboxsf in the alpine console is not yet supported.