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This job still need to be improved but at least a simple rough test test works:

└─$ packer build -on-error=ask -only=virtualbox-iso.vm -var-file=./os_pkrvars/alpine/alpine-3.21-x86_64.pkrvars.hcl  ./packer_templates
virtualbox-iso.vm: output will be in this color.
[...]
==> virtualbox-iso.vm (vagrant): Creating Vagrant box for 'virtualbox' provider
    virtualbox-iso.vm (vagrant): Copying from artifact: builds/build_files/packer-alpine-3.21-x86_64-virtualbox/alpine-3.21-amd64-disk001.vmdk
    virtualbox-iso.vm (vagrant): Copying from artifact: builds/build_files/packer-alpine-3.21-x86_64-virtualbox/alpine-3.21-amd64.ovf
    virtualbox-iso.vm (vagrant): Renaming the OVF to box.ovf...
    virtualbox-iso.vm (vagrant): Compressing: Vagrantfile
    virtualbox-iso.vm (vagrant): Compressing: alpine-3.21-amd64-disk001.vmdk
    virtualbox-iso.vm (vagrant): Compressing: box.ovf
    virtualbox-iso.vm (vagrant): Compressing: metadata.json
Build 'virtualbox-iso.vm' finished after 2 minutes 31 seconds.

==> Wait completed after 2 minutes 31 seconds

==> Builds finished. The artifacts of successful builds are:
--> virtualbox-iso.vm: 'virtualbox' provider box: ./packer_templates/../builds/alpine-3.21-x86_64.virtualbox.box

└─$ ls -lh builds/alpine-3.21-x86_64.virtualbox.box
-rw-r--r-- 1 jlst sysadmins 193M May  4 10:20 builds/alpine-3.21-x86_64.virtualbox.box

└─$ vagrant box add --name rudy/Alpine-3.21.3-BIOS-x86_64-vb_7-0-22 ./builds/alpine-3.21-x86_64.virtualbox.box --force
==> box: Box file was not detected as metadata. Adding it directly...
==> box: Adding box 'rudy/Alpine-3.21.3-BIOS-x86_64-vb_7-0-22' (v0) for provider: 
    box: Unpacking necessary files from: file:///Extra/vguest_img/Vagrant/Vagrant.d/jlst/Develop/Vagrant/Bento-Alpine/bento/builds/alpine-3.21-x86_64.virtualbox.box
==> box: Successfully added box 'rudy/Alpine-3.21.3-BIOS-x86_64-vb_7-0-22' (v0) for ''!

Somewhere on the system host:

└─$ vagrant init rudy/Alpine-3.21.3-BIOS-x86_64-vb_7-0-22

└─$ vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Clearing any previously set forwarded ports...
==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
    default: Adapter 1: nat
==> default: Forwarding ports...
    default: 22 (guest) => 2222 (host) (adapter 1)
==> default: Booting VM...
==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
    default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222
    default: SSH username: vagrant
    default: SSH auth method: private key
==> default: Machine booted and ready!
==> default: Checking for guest additions in VM...
==> default: Mounting shared folders...
    default: /Extra/vguest_img/Vagrant/Vagrant.d/jlst/Develop/Vagrant/vagrant-testing-boxes/Alpine-t1 => /vagrant
==> default: Machine already provisioned. Run `vagrant provision` or use the `--provision`
==> default: flag to force provisioning. Provisioners marked to run always will still run.

└─$ vagrant ssh
Welcome to Alpine Linux!
alpine:~$ pwd
/home/vagrant
alpine:~$ ls -ld /home/vagrant
drwxr-sr-x    3 vagrant  vagrant       4096 May  4 10:36 /home/vagrant
alpine:~$

└─$ vagrant halt
==> default: Attempting graceful shutdown of VM...

Hope this will help,
Rudy

Joel Soete added 2 commits May 4, 2025 10:00
This first commit to replace 'ks.cfg' by apline equivalent 'answers';
ed23eaf 
Adapt os_pkrvars/alpine/alpine-3.21-x86_64.pkrvars.hcl in accordance;
Otoh, as alpine deprecated sudo and replaced by doas which require
a tty to operate, we should better use ssh_user=root for
the initialization of the 'box'.

On branch my-conrib_4_apline-vbox
Changes to be committed:
	modified:   os_pkrvars/alpine/alpine-3.21-x86_64.pkrvars.hcl
	new file:   packer_templates/http/alpine/answers
	modified:   packer_templates/pkr-builder.pkr.hcl
	modified:   packer_templates/pkr-sources.pkr.hcl
As alpine default shell is busybox, post-install x-*.sh scripts
ea0969c 
were taken form: <https://github.com/SamuelMarks/alpine-packer/tree/3.21>

On branch my-conrib_4_apline-vbox
Changes to be committed:
	modified:   packer_templates/pkr-builder.pkr.hcl
	new file:   packer_templates/scripts/alpine/x-apk-update.sh
	new file:   packer_templates/scripts/alpine/x-only-virtualbox.sh
	new file:   packer_templates/scripts/alpine/x-only-vmware.sh
	new file:   packer_templates/scripts/alpine/x-provision.sh
	new file:   packer_templates/scripts/alpine/x-vmdiskclean.sh
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rubisher commented May 6, 2025

MMM sorry I don't find how to 'assign' this pr to Samuel?

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@rubisher Thanks, I've pushed your ssh_username and boot_command values to:

  • os_pkrvars/alpine/alpine-3.21-aarch64.pkrvars.hcl
  • os_pkrvars/alpine/alpine-3_21-aarch64.pkrvars.hcl

Then running:

$ gem install bento-*.gem
$ gem build bento.gemspec
$ bento build --cpus 2 os_pkrvars/alpine/alpine-3.21-aarch64.pkrvars.hcl

Gives:

2025-05-09T09:30:30-06:00: ==> virtualbox-iso.vm: Waiting 10s for boot...
2025-05-09T09:30:33-06:00: ==> vmware-iso.vm: error starting virtual machine: VMware error: 2025-05-09T09:30:30.407| ServiceImpl_Opener: PID 5884                                                 
==> vmware-iso.vm: Error: The operation was canceled                                             
2025-05-09T09:30:33-06:00: ==> vmware-iso.vm: Waiting 1.537977292s to give VMware time to clean up...                                                                                             
2025-05-09T09:30:35-06:00: ==> vmware-iso.vm: Deleting output directory...
2025-05-09T09:30:35-06:00: Build 'vmware-iso.vm' errored after 6 seconds 599 milliseconds: error starting virtual machine: VMware error: 2025-05-09T09:30:30.407| ServiceImpl_Opener: PID 5884    
Error: The operation was canceled                                                                
2025-05-09T09:30:40-06:00: ==> virtualbox-iso.vm: Typing the boot command...
2025-05-09T09:31:31-06:00: ==> virtualbox-iso.vm: Using SSH communicator to connect: 127.0.0.1
2025-05-09T09:31:31-06:00: ==> virtualbox-iso.vm: Waiting for SSH to become available...

TL;DR neither VMware nor VirtualBox correctly build for me. Happy to debug together

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rubisher commented May 14, 2025 •
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Hello @SamuelMarks,
Unfortunately I just have very few knowledge of macos (a colleague of mine is a fan) nor vmware (only begin to install this last one on a fresh OpenSUSE leap on I9 platform)
That said, the 2 problems looks like totally different:

  • about vmware, the VM doesn't start at all : vmware-iso.vm: Error: The operation was canceled :(
    Do you have access to cmd to test the underlying packer cmd like:
    $ # cd to your local git dir;
    $ packer build -on-error=ask -only=vmware-iso.vm -var-file=./os_pkrvars/alpine/alpine-3.21-aarch64.pkrvars.hcl ./packer_templates
    (the see which is the error?)

  • about virtualbox, the VM is well created but apparently wasn't setup correctly :(
    Also the same if you have access to cmd, could you try this other packer cmd:
    $ # cd to your local git dir;
    $ packer build -on-error=ask -only=virtualbox-iso.vm -var-file=./os_pkrvars/alpine/alpine-3.21-aarch64.pkrvars.hcl ./packer_templates
    The option "-on-error=ask" would let you the time to open the Virtualbox GUI and 'Show' would open a console terminal which would allow you to learn more about what happen?

PS:

  1. think twice, on Linux, installing VmWare & Virtualbox on a same system seems to be possible but not using each in the same time like the above "bento" cmd looks like to do (but I don't know about macos :()
  2. I own some Raspberry PI ( 4 & 5 ) but don't if it is possible to install either VmWare Workstation or Virtualbox?

Hope this will help to debug the problems ;)

Happy session,
Rudy

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@rubisher So have you been able to get the build working on your system? - Which OS and hypervisor(s)?

BTW: Just merged in my latest changes; merged latest main; and pushed to this branch.

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rubisher commented Jun 8, 2025

@rubisher So have you been able to get the build working on your system? - Which OS and hypervisor(s)?

BTW: Just merged in my latest changes; merged latest main; and pushed to this branch.
Hello @SamuelMarks ,
Yes it works to me:

my Linux install being an OpenSUSE Leap 15.6,
with 'hashicorp' vagrant & packer tools build,
as well as native Oracle VirtualBox

Thanks a lot for all,
Rudy

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Let me know if you got it working and on which OS+hypervisor @rubisher

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