'vagrant ssh' fails with macvm boxes

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'vagrant ssh' fails with macvm boxes

bineesh-n opened this issue a year ago · comments

The 'vagrant ssh' command fails for macvms with latest M-series chips. Their entries are not present in /Library/Preferences/Parallels/parallels_dhcp_leases file, so ipv4 address is empty (it fails to detect whether the system started).

More Info :
IP address correctly displayed with "prlctl list -f --json" option.

Mikhail Zholobov · Answer 1 · Mon Mar 20 2023 19:14:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@alevlasu @romankulikov Can we please get some insights from Parallels / Alludo here?

Is it expected that .macvm VMs don't have their IP listed in /Library/Preferences/Parallels/parallels_dhcp_leases, or maybe there is another file for that? Is there any other way to determine the IP of such VMs except prlctl list call?
Thank you!

Bineesh · Answer 2 · Mon Mar 20 2023 19:40:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@legal90 yes, it is expected. Macvms are our VMs using latest apple virtualization SDK. The DHCP server for such VMs are not controlled by parallels, so we cannot put the entry in a leases file.

IPs of macvms available in '/private/var/db/dhcpd_leases', but we will remove the custom network mechanisms sooner or later (as per discussion with management), so I don't think using leases will be a good idea (for pvms specifically).

Roman Kulikov · Answer 3 · Tue Mar 21 2023 05:21:04 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@alevlasu @romankulikov Can we please get some insights from Parallels / Alludo here?

Is it expected that .macvm VMs don't have their IP listed in /Library/Preferences/Parallels/parallels_dhcp_leases, or maybe there is another file for that? Is there any other way to determine the IP of such VMs except prlctl list call? Thank you!

@legal90, terribly sorry. I don't work for Parallels any more and cannot help with insights.

Roman Kulikov · Answer 4 · Tue Mar 21 2023 05:39:27 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Probably speaking about .macvm VM-s using prlctl list to get VM IP address may be the reasonable way.

As far as I remember in some recent versions of Parallels Desktop mechanism of guest VM IP detection was reworked on that it could be got from host side, without interaction with guest. This way one may obtain IP with prltctl. Unfortunately I don't have product license to check this out.

Mikhail Zholobov · Answer 5 · Tue Mar 21 2023 14:49:10 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@romankulikov Thank you for the information!
We will use both mechanisms for now - prlctl and DHCP lease file, as suggested in #434 .