Need a way to run custom Ohai plugins

[mconigliaro]

As far as I can tell, there is no way to specify the plugin path for Ohai. This means custom Ohai plugins cannot be loaded by the Chef provisioner.

See: http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Loading+Custom+Ohai+Plugins

[mhorbul]

There are two ways of doing that:

1. allow to define ohai_plugins_path in the Vagrant file
2. allow to define solo.rb template path

The second option will give user more flexibility.
What do you think it better option ? Do we really need such unlimited flexibility ?

[mconigliaro]

Either works for me. Though I suspect that @mitchellh will prefer the first option, since it's similar to how cookbook and role paths are already specified.

[mhorbul]

Here is the option №2 https://github.com/mhorbul/vagrant/tree/custom_template
Keep working on the option №1 :)

[jmahowald]

Definitely interested in this. Was going to hack something similar. That being said, I had pulled the fork, but didn't succeed at building it as a local gem. I'll admit I haven't done a lot of gem creation before.

Had a bit of a failure

bundle install
Using rake (0.9.2.2)
Using archive-tar-minitar (0.5.2)
Using ffi (1.0.11)
Using childprocess (0.3.2)
Using contest (0.1.3)
Using diff-lcs (1.1.3)
Using erubis (2.7.0)
Using i18n (0.6.0)
Using json (1.6.7)
Using log4r (1.1.10)
Using metaclass (0.0.1)
Using minitest (2.5.1)
Using mocha (0.11.3)
Using net-ssh (2.2.2)
Using net-scp (1.0.4)
Using rspec-core (2.8.0)
Using rspec-expectations (2.8.0)
Using rspec-mocks (2.8.0)
Using vagrant (1.1.0.dev) from source at .
Using bundler (1.1.3)
Your bundle is complete! Use bundle show [gemname] to see where a bundled gem is installed.
~/workspace/tools/vagrant(custom_template) $ rake
rake aborted!
no such file to load -- bundler/setup

[mhorbul]

have you tried "bundle exec rake" ?

[mitchellh]

I think for now #1 is the way to go for sure. But in the future I think arbitrary Chef config templates should be supported.

[jmahowald]

No dice for me (unless I need to go to 1.9)

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby -S rspec test/unit/vagrant/action/builder_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/action/environment_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/action/runner_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/action/warden_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/box_collection_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/box_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/command/base_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/config/base_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/config/loader_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/config/v1/root_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/config/v1_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/config_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/data_store_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/downloaders/base_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/downloaders/file_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/downloaders/http_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/environment_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/hosts_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/plugin/v1_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/registry_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/util/ansi_escape_code_remover_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/util/file_checksum_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/util/hash_with_indifferent_access_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/util/is_port_open_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/util/line_endings_helper_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/util/network_ip_test.rb test/unit/vagrant/util/retryable_test.rb test/unit/vagrant_test.rb
INFO global: Vagrant version: 1.1.0.dev
./lib/vagrant.rb:132: undefined method each_child' for #<Pathname:/Users/josh/workspace/tools/vagrant/plugins> (NoMethodError) from /Users/josh/workspace/tools/vagrant/test/unit/base.rb:6:inrequire'
from /Users/josh/workspace/tools/vagrant/test/unit/base.rb:6
from /Users/josh/workspace/tools/vagrant/test/unit/vagrant/action/builder_test.rb:1:in require' from /Users/josh/workspace/tools/vagrant/test/unit/vagrant/action/builder_test.rb:1 from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.8.0/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:698:inload'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.8.0/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:698:in load_spec_files' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.8.0/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:698:inmap'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.8.0/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:698:in load_spec_files' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.8.0/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:22:inrun'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.8.0/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:80:in run_in_process' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.8.0/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:69:inrun'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.8.0/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:10:in `autorun'
from /usr/bin/rspec:19
rake aborted!

version:
git status

On branch custom_template

nothing to commit (working directory clean)
~/workspace/tools/vagrant(custom_template) $ git remote -v
origin https://github.com/mhorbul/vagrant (fetch)

[jmahowald]

Although I may have gotten around this by using the vagrant-ohai plugin from here:
git://github.com/agoddard/street-chef.git

[jmahowald]

bundle exec rake install worked fine at least when I pulled directly from the mitchellh repo and tried on 1.0.3

[johntdyer]

Was this ever solved?

[mconigliaro]

For what it's worth, it looks like Opscode's ohai cookbook takes care of this somehow.

[mitchellh]

I recently commited 56adfec which will be part of the next Vagrant release (1.2.4 or 1.3.0) that allows custom configuration to be set for Chef, allowing you to do this sort of thing.