I’m trying to set up a Gitlab specific runner using VirtualBox as an executor.
I’m using macOS 10.15.5 and here’s what I did:
- Run
gitlab-runner register and use URL and token shown in Settings -> CI/CD
- Choose
virtualbox for executor
- Run
gitlab-runner start
Then I can see the activated Runner in Settings -> CI/CD in my Gitlab project.
But if I commit the .gitlab-ci.yml file, the runner pipeline fails with the following error:
Preparing the "virtualbox" executor
ERROR: Job failed (system failure): exec: "vboxmanage": executable file not found in $PATH
I tried everything to fix this based on Google search, but could not fix this. (especially tried everything from https://github.com/docker/machine/issues/4590)
How can I fix this?
Hi,
run which vboxmanage on your macOS system. There might be a problem with this not available in the PATH variable.
In case this returns empty, look for VBoxManage or other variants with find / -iname 'vboxmanage' or similar to find out about the exact path. The symlink trick could be needed then.
Cheers,
Michael
I have equal problem.
VBoxManage is exists and callable in host terminal.
Manual installation ( sudo curl --output /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner https://gitlab-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/binaries/gitlab-runner-darwin-amd64 ) for macos is probably broken or is not well configured.
You try installation with homebrew:
brew install gitlab-runner
brew services start gitlab-runner
But next my problem is in ssh connecting “ERROR: Preparation failed: ssh Dial() error: dial tcp [::1]:52529: connect: connection refused”. SSH connection from host terminal is work.
( https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/osx.html )