Since 2.2.9 (at least for me) Vagrant complains about base_mac when the syntax is not colon-separated (and yes there is a recent post about this already, but it does not bring the issue to the point, so I decided to do this new topic to bring the real problem to attention.
This change is pretty spicy. … Spicy, why? Because vagrant’s own package commands writes a Vagrantfile (internal to the box, preparing the VM’s load) with a base_mac without colons, digits-only, triggering this error. Try in a directory:
vagrant init centos/7 --minimal
vagrant package
vagrant add foo/bar package.box
# Syntax of above cited from the back of my head, recheck if necessary
In another directory:
vagrant init foo/bar
vagrant up
Then cry, bitterly!
My projects depend on resized (aka packaged) VMs. My customer is breathing down my neck to get a delivery. Hashicorp found a brillant timing for a defect release.
What makes the catastrophy complete. If I add the packaged box and try to fix the base_mac by adding colons: vagrant up does not complain anymore but when trying to setup the networking … pauses for ever. Nor error, no stop, just dead.
Even more spicy: when adding the box and then complely removing the base_mac everything runs like a charm.
So I will attempt this as a workaround: I will now create - painfully, because I hate powershell - a script kicking all the base_macs from the added boxes, in order to fix them to run with 2.2.9.
I cannot even describe the damage that this “update” caused to me. Next I do is implement a test-process for this tool, because the testing quality at hashicorp is poor … I would use a completely different word, but I do not want to offend the casual reader’s taste.
What did cost me even more time: I would have reverted to 2.2.7 and really managed to get this running, but then the ordeal of getting the vmware-desktop provider start: 2.1.0 ist apparantly not compatible to 2.2.7 and 2.0.3 is not installable anymore I trying to nail the --plugin-version but then the plugin is “not found”.
I lack enough political correct swearwords of what I think about Ruby, with its gem compatibility hell poisoning my life for long years, now. But combined with a defect in a production version causing the inability to rollback to a previous version this is really make my life a hell.
I am desperate! Please! Someone give me a hint on either:
- how to install the vagrant-vmware-desktop plugin in a previous version, allowing me to revert to 2.2.7 with 2.0.3 as plugin. Which worked.
- how to make “vagrant package” not create a base_mac
- any other means of getting out of this mess
Thanks in advance
Best Regards,
Koffeiniker (for this interested, it’s German for “caffeine-addicted”)
PS: I use vmware-desktop provider and VMware Workstation 15.most-actual. All worked with Vagrant 2.2.7 and vmware-desktop 2.0.3 (I believe). Since 2.2.9 I am dead in the water.