Packer definitions for vagrant VirtualBox and VMware baseboxes. These are the vagrant baseboxes I use for my own personal projects. This project is run against a private Jenkins instance, and as template definitions are added and/or updated, links to the generated images are generated in Vagrant Cloud.
All boxes currently support VMware Fusion 6.0.3/VMware Workstation 10.02 via the vmware_desktop provider and VirtualBox via the virtualbox provider. Refer to the VagrantCloud documentation on Finding and Using Boxes for more information on how to integrate these boxes into your projects:
64-bit boxes:
- misheska/centos510 - CentOS 5.10 64-bit
- misheska/centos65 - CentOS 6.5 64-bit
- misheska/oracle65 - Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.5 64-bit
- misheska/ubuntu1204 - Ubuntu 12.04 Server 64-bit
- misheska/ubuntu1204-docker - Ubuntu 12.04 Server 64-bit with Docker
- misheska/ubuntu1404 - Ubuntu 14.04 Server 64-bit
- misheska/ubuntu1404-docker - Ubuntu 14.04 Server 64-bit with Docker
32-bit boxes:
- misheska/centos510-i386 - CentOS 5.10 32-bit
- misheska/centos65-i386 - CentOS 6.5 32-bit
- misheska/oracle65-i386 - Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.5 32-bit
- misheska/ubuntu1204-i386 - Ubuntu 12.04 Server 32-bit
- misheska/ubuntu1404-i386 - Ubuntu 14.04 Server 32-bit
A GNU Make makefile is provided to support automated builds. It assumes that both GNU Make and Packer are in the PATH. Download and install Packer from http://www.packer.io/downloads.html
To build a VirtualBox box:
make list
# Choose a definition, like 'virtualbox/ubuntu1204'
make virtualbox/ubuntu1204.box
To build a VMware Fusion/VMware Workstation box:
make list
# Choose a definition, like 'vmware/centos64'
make vmware/centos64.box
By default, the templates build without installing a provisioning client, like for Chef or Puppet. You can choose to install a provisioning client by using the following Packer user variables when a basebox is built.
The provisioner variable controls which client provisioner is installed. Current values can be:
-var "provisioner=provisionerless" - the default, no client provisioner is installed
-var "provisioner=chef" - the Chef client provisioner is installed
If the 'provisioner' variable is set to something besides provisionerless, you can use the provisioner_version
variable to specify the version of the provisioner to be installed. Legal values are:
-var "provisioner_version=latest" - install the latest version of the provisioner
-var "provisioner_version=x.y.z" - the provisioner version in dotted triplet form (example: 11.8.0)
Both variables should be used together when you specify a provisioner to be installed. For example, to install the
latest version of the Chef client in an Ubuntu 12.04 basebox, run the following packer command in the appropriate
teamplate directory:
packer build -var "provisioner=chef" -var "provisioner_version=11.8.0" ubuntu1204.json
Microsoft won't allow us to redistribute Windows baseboxes, so you must obtain the appropriate ISO for each Windows template and build them yourself.
The resultant Windows baseboxes also need the vagrant-windows plugin installed to run properly. Run the following
command to install the vagrant-windows plugin:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-windows
You'll also need to add the following settings to your Vagrantfile to enable the correct WinRM settings for
vagrant to talk to the Windows guest and set up shared folders properly:
config.vm.guest = :windows
config.windows.halt_timeout = 25
config.winrm.username = "vagrant"
config.winrm.password = "vagrant"
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 5985, host: 5985
If you plan on using Windows in GUI mode, add the following section to your Vagrantfile in order to enable GUI mode:
If you plan on using Windows in GUI mode, add the following section to your Vagrantfile in order to enable GUI mode:
VirtualBox:
config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |p|
p.gui = true
end
VMware Workstation:
config.vm.provider :vmware_workstation do |p|
p.gui = true
end
VMware Fusion:
config.vm.provider :vmware_fusion do |p|
p.gui = true
end
If you are using VirtualBox and want to use a resolution higher than
800x600, add the following extra settings to your config.vm.provider block
to increase the amount of video memory, remove guest resolution restrictions,
and to set the default resolution (1024x768 is just an example):
config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |p|
p.gui = true
v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--vram", "256"]
v.customize ["setextradata", "global", "GUI/MaxGuestResolution", "any"]
v.customize ["setextradata", :id, "CustomVideoMode1", "1024x768x32"]
end
To use the 10Gb VMXNET3 virtual NIC instead of the default 1Gb E1000 virtual NIC on VMware:
VMware Workstation:
config.vm.provider :vmware_workstation do |p|
p.vmx["ethernet0.virtualDev"] = "vmxnet3"
end
VMware Fusion:
config.vm.provider :vmware_fusion do |p|
p.vmx["ethernet0.virtualDev"] = "vmxnet3"
end
If you want to provider back-door VNC access to your VMware guest instances:
Mware Workstation:
config.vm.provider :vmware_workstation do |p|
p.vmx["RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled"] = "true"
p.vmx["RemoteDisplay.vnc.port"] = "5900"
end
VMware Fusion:
config.vm.provider :vmware_fusion do |p|
p.vmx["RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled"] = "true"
p.vmx["RemoteDisplay.vnc.port"] = "5900"
end