[Starlingx-discuss] Installation Guide and Access VM Network

[Walker, Cole]

Hello Thorsten,

I will try to provide some suggestions related to scenario 1 in your email. I know many people are able to run StarlingX in Virtualbox on Ubuntu. I suspect that there is some network configuration that can be tweaked to resolve your issue.

Are you using Virtualbox as your virtual machine manager? If so, here is a document that may provide some assistance:

https://docs.starlingx.io/deploy_install_guides/r4_release/virtual/install_virtualbox.html

The "network settings" sections has some important points, and also includes instructions for configuring a virtual router
https://docs.starlingx.io/deploy_install_guides/r4_release/virtual/config_virtualbox_netwk.html

Given that your VM is unable to access the external network of the host machine, this may be part of the solution to your problem. I would recommend that before your begin the ansible playbook installation, you ensure that your guest vm is able to reach the internet. I believe that this documentation provides answers to questions 1, 2 and 4 in your email.

The answer for question 3 would be covered in the documentation for "Virtual Standard with Controller Storage Installation"
https://docs.starlingx.io/deploy_install_guides/r4_release/virtual/controller_storage.html


Let me know if you have additional questions, or if this documentation does not properly correspond to your use case.

Regards,
Cole

From: Thorsten Steuer <thorsten.steuer at acdp.at>
Sent: April 19, 2021 10:55 AM
To: starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io
Cc: Sebastian Kropatschek <sebastian.kropatschek at acdp.at>
Subject: [Starlingx-discuss] Installation Guide and Access VM Network

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Good evening Community,



we are trying to set up StarlingX for the first time to try out it's features. Unfortunately, we have several issues with the installation.



  1.   Scenario: We used Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS Desktop image as Host system. When we carry out the simplex all in one installation for a Virtual Enviorment the process get stuck during the Ansible playbook installation (https://docs.starlingx.io/deploy_install_guides/r4_release/virtual/aio_simplex_install_kubernetes.html). It can not donwload the Docker images and push them to the local registry. This is caused by the VM not beeing able to access the external network of the host machine.
  2.  Scenario: We use Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS without Desktop. The same installation command and configurations runs all the way through but we can't access the Web-interface from the Hos Machine Browser since there is no GUI. In the VM we can get the html opening page of StarlingX Horizion Interface via CLI wget command. The service is running in the VM but the Host Machine can reach the internal network of the VM.



Questions:

  1.   Is this a known problem that StralingX can't be installed correctly with Desktop Ubuntu OS on the Host Machine?
  2.  How can we make the OAM floating IP Address visible for external networks?
  3.  How would we register a worker node into this network to communicate with the StarlingX VM?
  4.  Are there general documentation about how the Network has to be set up for this to work?

Help would be appreciated.

Kind regards,
Thorsten Steuer
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