Vagrant: fails to set hostname on rhel8

[abbbi]

Vagrant version

Vagrant 2.1.5

Host operating system

Debian

Guest operating system

RHEL8 beta 1

Vagrantfile

standard vagrantfile trying to set hostname via:

config.vm.hostname = "foo"

Expected behavior

set hostname

Actual behavior

set hostname fails with:

==> default: Setting hostname...
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

# Update sysconfig
sed -i 's/\(HOSTNAME=\).*/\1rhel8/' /etc/sysconfig/network

# Update DNS
sed -i 's/\(DHCP_HOSTNAME=\).*/\1"rhel8"/' /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*

# Set the hostname - use hostnamectl if available
echo 'rhel8' > /etc/hostname
if command -v hostnamectl; then
  hostnamectl set-hostname --static 'rhel8'
  hostnamectl set-hostname --transient 'rhel8'
else
  hostname -F /etc/hostname
fi

# Prepend ourselves to /etc/hosts
grep -w 'rhel8' /etc/hosts || {
  sed -i'' '1i 127.0.0.1\trhel8\trhel8' /etc/hosts
}

# Restart network
service network restart


Stdout from the command:

/bin/hostnamectl
127.0.0.1 rhel8.localdomain


Stderr from the command:

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart network.service
Failed to restart network.service: Unit network.service not found.

Steps to reproduce

1. use robobox rhel8 image from vagrantcloud,be sure to set disk_bus="sata" in Vagrantfile otherwise it wont boot
2. try to set hostname via vagrantfile
3. vagrant up

[abbbi]

rhel8 is using NetworkManager by default, the network.service file has been moved to a legacy package and will only be available if the package network-scripts is installed:

 dnf install network-scripts
[..]
  network-scripts-10.00.1-1.el8.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Complete!
[root@setmeup vagrant]# service network restart
Restarting network (via systemctl):                        [  OK  ]

[briancain]

Hi @abbbi - This worked fine for me for both the roboxes and generic box on the latest version of Vagrant:

brian@localghost:vagrant-sandbox % be vagrant up rhel                                                    ±[●][master]
Bringing machine 'rhel' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> rhel: Box 'roboxes/rhel8' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
    rhel: Box Provider: virtualbox
    rhel: Box Version: >= 0
==> rhel: Loading metadata for box 'roboxes/rhel8'
    rhel: URL: https://vagrantcloud.com/roboxes/rhel8
==> rhel: Adding box 'roboxes/rhel8' (v1.8.50) for provider: virtualbox
    rhel: Downloading: https://vagrantcloud.com/roboxes/boxes/rhel8/versions/1.8.50/providers/virtualbox.box
    rhel: Download redirected to host: vagrantcloud-files-production.s3.amazonaws.com
==> rhel: Successfully added box 'roboxes/rhel8' (v1.8.50) for 'virtualbox'!
==> rhel: Importing base box 'roboxes/rhel8'...
==> rhel: Matching MAC address for NAT networking...
==> rhel: Checking if box 'roboxes/rhel8' is up to date...
==> rhel: Setting the name of the VM: vagrant-sandbox_rhel_1544640181286_89044
==> rhel: Fixed port collision for 22 => 2222. Now on port 2200.
==> rhel: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
==> rhel: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
    rhel: Adapter 1: nat
==> rhel: Forwarding ports...
    rhel: 22 (guest) => 2200 (host) (adapter 1)
==> rhel: Running 'pre-boot' VM customizations...
==> rhel: Booting VM...
==> rhel: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
    rhel: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2200
    rhel: SSH username: vagrant
    rhel: SSH auth method: private key
    rhel:
    rhel: Vagrant insecure key detected. Vagrant will automatically replace
    rhel: this with a newly generated keypair for better security.
    rhel:
    rhel: Inserting generated public key within guest...
    rhel: Removing insecure key from the guest if it's present...
    rhel: Key inserted! Disconnecting and reconnecting using new SSH key...
==> rhel: Machine booted and ready!
==> rhel: Checking for guest additions in VM...
    rhel: No guest additions were detected on the base box for this VM! Guest
    rhel: additions are required for forwarded ports, shared folders, host only
    rhel: networking, and more. If SSH fails on this machine, please install
    rhel: the guest additions and repackage the box to continue.
    rhel:
    rhel: This is not an error message; everything may continue to work properly,
    rhel: in which case you may ignore this message.
==> rhel: Setting hostname...

brian@localghost:vagrant-sandbox % be vagrant ssh -c "hostname -f" rhel                                  ±[●][master]
redhat
Connection to 127.0.0.1 closed.

  config.vm.define "rhel" do |r|
    #r.vm.box = "generic/rhel8"
    r.vm.box = "roboxes/rhel8"
    r.vm.hostname = "redhat"
    r.vm.provider :virtualbox
  end

Please upgrade to the latest version of Vagrant and try again! If you're still having trouble feel free to comment on this issue and we can re-open it. And if you do, please provide us with the full debug log so that we can see what's going on. Thanks!

[abbbi]

hi,

yes, indeed the most recent version seems to have fixed this :)
thanks.

[briancain]

@abbbi - awesome, glad to hear it! :taco: :tada:

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