VirtualBox Scripts for MOS 6.1 do not work with VirtualBox 5.0.4 on Windows 10/8.1

[Javier Diaz Jr]

More details in ticket: https://mirantis.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/8496

Reported via customer:

Gentlemen, to update - I seem to have found the issue. It seems that VirtualBox 5.0.4 will not allow the FUEL Scripts to execute in either Windows 10 or in Windows 8.1

I have downgraded Virtualbox to VirtualBox 4.3.28 and it works great now.

Also, Windows 10 seems to interfer regardless of using VirtualBox 4.3.28 build. Since all new desktops come now with Windows 10. I recommend a bug report. Is there a URL where I can fill out to report the issues with 5.3 of Virtualbox and also with Windows 10? Windows 8.1 is being phased out by OEM Vendors - so we need to tackle this issue.

[Mike Scherbakov (mihgen)]

QA team, can you please clarify what versions of vbox we've certified as working for Fuel 6.1 ?
We may need to change documentation. It has to explicitly say which version is supported.

[Anastasia Palkina (apalkina)]

I am testing on Ubuntu on VBox version 4.3.30

[John Devereaux (jdevereaux)]

Anastasia, good morning - can you also put into your testing roadmap using Windows 10 and 8.1 with VirtualBox 5.0.4 for Windows hosts? New PCs are now coming out with Windows 10 and Microsoft also is giving every Windows 7 and Windows 8 customers the option to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. So this will be a repeatable issue pertaining to using Virtualbox 6.1 scripts with VirtualBox 5.0.4 ( the latest version).

Thank you.

JD

[Roman Rufanov (rrufanov)]

customer found on MOS 6.1 and Virtualbox build # 5.0.4 Windows 10 64bit with error:
RROR: Unable to fetch url 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/', error 'Network is unreachable - connect(2)'. Please verify node connectivity to this URL, or remove it from the settings page if it is invalid. on node node-6.domain.tld

[Miroslav Anashkin (manashkin)]

So far I use VirtualBox 5.0.x without issues under Linux only.
Under Windows I continue using VirtualBox 4.3.x, since 5.0 under Windows looks too buggy.

[Vlad Okhrimenko (vokhrimenko)]

Today, I have tested scripts with VirtualBox 5.0.4 under Windows 8.1, and got same error. I think it's bug in VirtualBox. Please look this https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14040. Despite the fact that ticket was fixed -- some people continue to observe this bug (and I'm too). After I downgraded the VirtualBox version (VirtualBox 5.0.0) -- scripts are working good

[Artem Hrechanychenko (agrechanichenko)]

Verified on 5.0.6 VirtualBox
New issue with checking vboxnet0 interface
https://bugs.launchpad.net/fuel/+bug/1505582

[Nastya Urlapova (aurlapova)]

If we don't support virtual box installations on Win 8/10, I think we have to document at least.