Babysteps trying to get started with Pallet and VirtualBox

gistfile1.clj

;;; My project.clj:
(defproject projectname "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
  :description "FIXME Pallet project for projectname"
  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.3.0"]
                 [org.cloudhoist/pallet "0.7.3"]
                 [org.cloudhoist/pallet-jclouds "1.4.3"]
                 [org.cloudhoist/pallet-vmfest "0.3.0-alpha.2"]
                 [org.virtualbox/vboxjws "4.2.6"]








                 ;; To get started we include all jclouds compute providers.
                 ;; You may wish to replace this with the specific jclouds
                 ;; providers you use, to reduce dependency sizes.
                 [org.jclouds/jclouds-allblobstore "1.4.2"]
                 [org.jclouds/jclouds-allcompute "1.4.2"]
                 [org.jclouds.driver/jclouds-slf4j "1.4.2"
                  ;; the declared version is old and can overrule the
                  ;; resolved version
                  :exclusions [org.slf4j/slf4j-api]]
                 [org.jclouds.driver/jclouds-sshj "1.4.2"]
                 [ch.qos.logback/logback-classic "1.0.0"]]
  :dev-dependencies [[org.cloudhoist/pallet
                      "0.7.3" :type "test-jar"]
                     [org.cloudhoist/pallet-lein "0.5.2"]]
  :profiles {:dev
             {:dependencies
              [[org.cloudhoist/pallet "0.7.3" :classifier "tests"]]
              :plugins [[org.cloudhoist/pallet-lein "0.5.2"]]}}
  :local-repo-classpath true
  :repositories
  {"sonatype-snapshots" "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots"
   "sonatype" "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/"}
  :repl-options {:init (do (require 'projectname.repl)
                           (projectname.repl/force-slf4j))})


;;; repl session
$ lein repl
nREPL server started on port 35230
REPL-y 0.1.9
Clojure 1.3.0
    Exit: Control+D or (exit) or (quit)
Commands: (user/help)
    Docs: (doc function-name-here)
          (find-doc "part-of-name-here")
  Source: (source function-name-here)
          (user/sourcery function-name-here)
 Javadoc: (javadoc java-object-or-class-here)
Examples from clojuredocs.org: [clojuredocs or cdoc]
          (user/clojuredocs name-here)
          (user/clojuredocs "ns-here" "name-here")
user=> (use '[pallet.configure :only [compute-service]])
nil
user=> (require 'pallet.compute.vmfest)
nil
user=> (def vmfest (compute-service "vmfest"))
FileNotFoundException /home/ferd/.pallet/config.clj (No such file or directory)  java.io.FileInputStream.open (FileInputStream.java:-2)

user=> vmfest
#<Unbound Unbound: #'user/vmfest>
user=> (def vmfest (compute-service "vmfest"))
FileNotFoundException /home/ferd/.pallet/config.clj (No such file or directory)  java.io.FileInputStream.open (FileInputStream.java:-2)

user=> vmfest
#<Unbound Unbound: #'user/vmfest>
user=> Bye for now!