This adds support for using VMWare Fusion as the Vagrant provider,
which has better performance than Virtualbox at the price of being
nonfree (in all senses of the term).
We haven't done solid benchmarking as to how much faster it is than
the Virtualbox provider.
Since we merged cd2348e9ae more than a
month ago and haven't seen any noticable regresions as a result, it's
reasonable at this point to do a corresponding decrease in our
documented RAM requirements for the Zulip development environment.
Apparently LXC 2 removed support for the `-B best` option in
lxc-create, and Vagrant hasn't been updated appropriately yet, so we
need to add a workaround to explicitly specify a backing store.
Fixes#718.
This manifested as errors of the form:
"""
There was an error executing ["sudo",
"/usr/local/bin/vagrant-lxc-wrapper", "lxc-create", "-B", "best",
"--template",
"/home/tabbott/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/vagrant-lxc-1.2.1/scripts/lxc-template",
"--name", "zulip_default_1461801696512_85064", "--", "--tarball",
"/home/tabbott/.vagrant.d/boxes/fgrehm-VAGRANTSLASH-trusty64-lxc/1.2.0/lxc/rootfs.tar.gz",
"--config",
"/home/tabbott/.vagrant.d/boxes/fgrehm-VAGRANTSLASH-trusty64-lxc/1.2.0/lxc/lxc-config"]
"""
The `with sh.sudo` pattern that we were using in python-sh was
deprecated, and emperically hangs on Ubuntu xenial. Since in general
the use of python-sh/python-pbs caused trouble (requiring extra
dependencies, confusing syntax), this just removes it.
We replace it with a new zulip_tools.py library function that echoes
the command line and streams the output.
We do the same to install-phantomjs so we can remove that dependency.
This solves the problem reported in #331 with needing to specify
--provider=lxc to use the LXC provider in an Ubuntu Linux environment;
additionally, it adds the LXC option needed to run LXC on Ubuntu
15.10, but not on 14.04 where that option is unavailable and would
totally break LXC.
By default we are placed inside a virtualenv by the .bash_profile using
/usr/bin/python forces the provisioning script to run outside of this
virtualenv.
Tim Abbott
Christie Koehler
Tim Abbott
Tomasz Kolek
Taranjeet
Vishnu Ks
Jason Michalski
Luke Faraone