Setup fails with no error info

[polotek]

I'm trying to setup Vessel and it's failing pretty early in the process. The documentation could be better, because I'm not sure if I have all of the dependencies I need. It may also be a conflict problem because I already had certain dependencies installed that maybe Vessel wants to install for me, e.g. node and VirtualBox.

Anyway, I get the UI, I click the Power On button, I get prompted to enter my system password into the UI (this is not great, it should go through the default Mac UI). Anyway, after that, I immediately get an error popup. It's an uncaughtException message that seems to come straight from node.

I click OK on that, and then I get "Starting Virtual Machine", but that hangs and never finishes. The only way to get out of this state is to quit the entire application.

At this point, I can't move forward with evaluating vessel. If someone wants to help me get through the setup, I'd be happy to connect with you. But the initial setup needs to be much more robust, or there needs to be much more instruction on how to get your system into the right state to get through setup cleanly.