wummel / vagrant-virtualbox-debian-base

Automatic Debian Vagrant base box building on OSX, Linux and Windows

About

This script will:

1. download and verify the latest Debian 10 "buster" CD image
2. ... do some magic to turn it into a vagrant box file
3. output debian-buster-amd64.box

To add new boxes to vagrant:

vagrant box add --name "myvagrantbox" debian-buster-amd64.box

Requirements

• Oracle VM VirtualBox >= 4.3
• Vagrant
• mkisofs for generating a custom Debian CD image
• bsdtar for unpacking the Debian CD image
• one of md5sum, sha1sum or sha256sum for Debian CD image hash check
• recommended: gpg to verify the Debian CD image

Configuration

Set the password hash of the deploy user in preseed.cfg.

python3 -c 'import crypt; print(crypt.crypt("mypassword", crypt.mksalt(crypt.METHOD_SHA512)))'

Copy-paste the printed crypt(3) hash into preseed.cfg at the following line:

  d-i passwd/user-password-crypted password [crypt(3) hash]

Optional: see Environment Variables below for more configuration

Usage on OSX

./build.sh

This should do everything you need. If you don't have mkisofs, install homebrew, then:

brew install cdrtools

To add debian-buster-amd64.box with name debian-buster into vagrant:

vagrant box add "debian-buster" debian-buster-amd64.box

Usage on Linux

./build.sh

This should do everything you need. If you don't have mkisofs or bsdtar:

sudo apt-get install genisoimage
sudo apt-get install libarchive-tools

To add debian-buster-amd64.box with name debian-buster into vagrant:

vagrant box add "debian-buster" debian-buster-amd64.box

Usage on Windows (with Windows subsystem for Linux)

./build.sh

Environment variables

You can affect the default behaviour of the script using environment variables:

VAR=value ./build.sh

The following variables are supported:

• DEBIAN_CDIMAGE - Domain to download the Debian installer from. Default is cdimage.debian.org. Example: ftp.de.debian.org.

• PRESEED - Path to custom preseed file. May be useful when if you need some customizations for your private base box (user name, passwords etc.).

• LATE_CMD - Path to custom late_command.sh. May be useful when if you need some customizations for your private base box (user name, passwords etc.).

• VM_GUI - If set to yes or 1, disables headless mode for vm. May be useful for debugging installer.

• SSHKEY - Path to custom public SSH key file to be copied into the installer CDROM at /sshkey.pub. Can be used by late_command.sh. Example: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

• ANSIBLE_PLAYBOOK - Optional ansible playbook to run.

• ANSIBLE_SSHPORT - Optional the SSH port for ansible. Default is 2222.

Notes

When the ansible playbook has errors, login to the running machine with ssh -p ${ANSIBLE_SSHPORT} deploy@localhost for inspection or debugging.

This script is based on original Carl's repo and with some tweaks to be Debian compatible.