Vagrant Usage

Author

Stephan Meissl

Contact

stephan.meissl at eox.at

Last Updated

2015/2/13

Table of Contents

• Vagrant Usage

  • Installation and Initial Configuration

  • Run Vagrant

  • Troubleshoot Vagrant

Probably the simplest way to run MapServer regression tests is using Vagrant as described below.

Installation and Initial Configuration

Install VirtualBox & Vagrant. The configuration is tested with:

• Vagrant v1.4.3

• VirtualBox 4.3.10

Install Vagrant add-ons:

• Highly recommended: vagrant-vbguest to check for Virtualbox Guest Additions

• Optional: vagrant-cachier to cache yum/apt/etc. packages

• Optional: sahara for sandboxing

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
vagrant plugin install vagrant-cachier
vagrant plugin install sahara

Clone MapServer and initialize msautotest submodule:

git clone https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver.git
cd mapserver/
git submodule init
git submodule update

Run Vagrant

To initialize Vagrant simply run the following from the mapserver directory:

vagrant up
vagrant ssh

You’re all set to run the tests as described in Regression Testing.

Troubleshoot Vagrant

• If the provisioning didn’t finish during vagrant up or after changes try: vagrant provision

• (Re-)Install virtualbox guest additions in case it complains about not matching versions: vagrant vbguest -f

• Slow performance: Check “Enable IO APIC”, uncheck “Extended Features: Enable PAE/NX”, and uncheck “Enable Nested Paging” in VirtualBox Manager.

• Symlinks with VirtualBox 4.1 not working: vi /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.3.5/plugins/providers/virtualbox/driver/version_4_1.rb and add those changes: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/commit/387692f9c8fa4031050646e2773b3d2d9b2c994e