Information Technology Reference
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Now that the virtual machine has been created and started, you can log in to the instance via
the
kitchen login
command, using the same instance name we used for
kitchen create
:
$
kitchen login default-centos65
Last login: Fri Jul 4 14:48:27 2014 from 10.0.2.2
Welcome to your Packer-built virtual machine.
You should notice that you are now logged into the CentOS 6.5 guest virtual machine run-
ning on your Chef Development Workstation host via Oracle VM VirtualBox. To verify that
the operating system is indeed CentOS Enterprise Linux, run
cat /etc/redhat-release
to
print out the operating system release information:
[vagrant@default-centos65 ~]$
cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
NOTE
If you get an error message that includes “No such file or directory - ssh,” make sure that
you have the ssh program in your $PATH. On Windows, make sure you install the Unix
In this topic, you will see that all the virtual machine command lines will have the Test
Kitchen instance name in them before the $ prompt. For example, note that the command
lines you just ran in the virtual machine were all prefaced by
[
vagrant@default-centos65
~]
. This should make it less confusing as to whether commands should be run in the Chef
Workstation
host
environment or the virtual machine
guest
environment.
To exit back out to your host command prompt, run the
exit
command. You should notice
prompt for your host platform:
[vagrant@default-centos65 ~]$
exit
logout
Connection to 127.0.0.1 closed.
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