From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 22:50:11 -0600 Message-ID: <871sxt1sho.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <878ts212ic.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52253) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBwqW-0004lx-70 for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:50:17 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBwqU-0002PL-T9 for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:50:16 -0500 Received: from dustycloud.org ([2600:3c02::f03c:91ff:feae:cb51]:50702) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBwqU-0002OU-Oy for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:50:14 -0500 Received: from oolong (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dustycloud.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DF9D265D3 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:50:12 -0500 (EST) In-reply-to: <878ts212ic.fsf@dustycloud.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix Christopher Allan Webber writes: > What am I doing wrong? I'm not totally sure... I feel like I'm > navigating a jungle out here in the OpenStack / Rackspace docs. Here's > one thing I found: > > https://community.rackspace.com/products/f/25/t/7186 > > So I probably need to execute this "import" command. I guess that's > what's next... Well, I did a bit more exploration tonight with *some* progress, but still not success. I followed the above link and got a task to generate an image based off my file. Looks like the task took! And it showed up in "image-list" with the glance command line client. Sounds like progress! And hey, if I try to create the server now via the web UI... if I look to create an image based off the images list from "Saved -> Deleted Servers (!!!)" menu, I indeed see my image listed. Cool! So I select that and click "create server". Ok... I wait a bit. It says it's initializing it! Uhoh, suddenly the status turns to ERROR. What's ERROR? I don't know. It says ERROR, and it's red. Hovering over it suggests I ask support. Hm. I wonder if I used the Nova command line client if I'd get more information, or if there's a way to query the API to get more info. Still, that's *some* progress... I kicked off generating an image generated via GuixSD, even if it didn't work at all... :) Relatedly! User dvc in #guix on freenode suggests looking at https://www.vultr.com/ which looks quite affordable and hey! It has a "custom ISO" option. If we can convert our USB boot stick thingy (presumably via xorriso) we could try generating a base server image from there. I'd prefer to have a workflow where I go from handing off something made with "guix system vm-image" to some API, but maybe in the meanwhile Vultr would be a lower barrier to entry. In the meanwhile, anyone familiar enough with Nova or Rackspace want to give me hints on how to find out more about what ERROR means, more specifically? ;) Onwards and upwards! - Chris