Incompatibility with Vagrant Box 'SubmittyBot/ubuntu22-dev' and VirtualBox Provider (i386 Architecture Issue)

[Yashgabani845]

Describe the bug
I encountered an error while trying to add the Vagrant box SubmittyBot/ubuntu22-dev with the VirtualBox provider. The box appears to be incompatible with the requested provider (VirtualBox), potentially due to an architecture mismatch (32-bit vs. 64-bit).

Expected Behavior

The box should be compatible with the VirtualBox provider, and it should default to amd64 (64-bit) if no architecture is specified.

Actual Behavior

Vagrant attempts to use the i386 (32-bit) architecture even after my windows architecture is 64 bit, which causes the error since my environment is 64-bit. There may be a mismatch in architecture or provider compatibility.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install Vagrant (version 2.4.1).
2. Install VirtualBox (version 7.1.2).
3. Run the following command:

   vagrant box add SubmittyBot/ubuntu22-dev --provider virtualbox

4. See error.

Configuration

• Vagrant version: 2.4.1
• VirtualBox version: 7.1.2
• Host OS: Windows 64x
• Submitty Vagrant Box: SubmittyBot/ubuntu22-dev

Screenshots

Additional Context

I have gone through the installation chat in Zulip, and many other contributors are also facing the same issue. Can you please provide a solution?

[Yashgabani845]

Current Vegrant Cloude Submitty/ubuntu22 is not supproting 7.1 and lower version than that are give unsupported error
so how should new contributor start?

[github-actions]

Hi @Yashgabani845,

Thank you for your interest in the Submitty open source project!

We encourage you to join our Zulip server to discuss new features requests, bug reports, and technical implementation questions.

We welcome contributions from new developers! Please read our documentation on how to get started with Submitty, specifically our pages on setting up your development environment and making a pull request.

NOTE: We do not use the Github issue 'assign' feature for first time prospective contributors. You do not need to be assigned to an issue to create a pull request that will be reviewed by our team and then merged if it appropriately resolves the issue.

[IDzyre]

Current Vegrant Cloude Submitty/ubuntu22 is not supproting 7.1 and lower version than that are give unsupported error so how should new contributor start?

Can you not install an earlier version of Virtualbox (in the CI we restrict it to 7.0.20) ?

[Yashgabani845]

@IDzyre i have checked on official website manually version 6.x are depreceted
and on downloading wibndows host it will directly download 7.1
in submitty docs link is given of 6.x

[IDzyre]

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_7_0 Here is a link where you can download Virtualbox 7.0 builds.

[Yashgabani845]

@IDzyre nothing is changed

Bringing machine 'ubuntu-22.04' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> ubuntu-22.04: Box 'SubmittyBot/ubuntu22-dev' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
ubuntu-22.04: Box Provider: virtualbox
ubuntu-22.04: Box Version: >= 0
==> ubuntu-22.04: Loading metadata for box 'SubmittyBot/ubuntu22-dev'
ubuntu-22.04: URL: https://vagrantcloud.com/api/v2/vagrant/SubmittyBot/ubuntu22-dev
The box you're attempting to add doesn't support the provider
you requested. Please find an alternate box or use an alternate
provider. Double-check your requested provider to verify you didn't
simply misspell it.

If you're adding a box from HashiCorp's Vagrant Cloud, make sure the box is
released.

Name: SubmittyBot/ubuntu22-dev
Address: https://vagrantcloud.com/api/v2/vagrant/SubmittyBot/ubuntu22-dev
Requested provider: virtualbox (i386)
causing this error repeatively

[IDzyre]

The vagrant box defaults to 64 bit infrastructure, so I am not quite sure what the problem is for you. Can you you can do the longer vagrant up until we can find out the issue for this, if you do SET FROM_SCRATCH=1; vagrant up does it work? (This method will take a while longer because it is not using the prebuilt VM)

[Yashgabani845]

@IDzyre giving same error on scrach way also

[IDzyre]

Virtualbox 7.1 is interacting in a confusing way with Vagrant, so we are still using Virtualbox 7.0 for the CI, does this work for you?

[AbhishekSingh0901]

@Yashgabani845 Hi I also am facing the same issue were you able to fix that ? if yes can you please help me with it too. Thank you so much

[github-actions]

Hi @AbhishekSingh0901,

Thank you for your interest in the Submitty open source project!

We encourage you to join our Zulip server to discuss new features requests, bug reports, and technical implementation questions.

We welcome contributions from new developers! Please read our documentation on how to get started with Submitty, specifically our pages on setting up your development environment and making a pull request.

NOTE: We do not use the Github issue 'assign' feature for first time prospective contributors. You do not need to be assigned to an issue to create a pull request that will be reviewed by our team and then merged if it appropriately resolves the issue.

[bmcutler]

Please see:

https://submitty.org/developer/getting_started/vm_install_using_vagrant
https://submitty.org/developer/troubleshooting/installation_troubleshooting

It is sometimes necessary to install a previous version of virtualbox if the current latest versions of virtualbox and vagrant are not compatible.

Please use Zulip to ask questions rather than open an issue for installation problems
https://submitty.org/index/contact