Vagrant base box templates

Packer templates for building Vagrant base boxes and publishing them to the HashiCorp Atlas box catalogue.

## Description

All boxes are configured as follows:

• 48 GiB sparse expandable virtual disk
• Second virtual disk for swap (except for libvirt boxes)
• Minimal package set
• Default installation settings wherever possible
• Paravirtualized device drivers where available
• Guest add-ons where available
• Customized according to Vagrant guidelines

Boxes

Name	Distribution
arch-32	Arch Linux (i686)
arch-64	Arch Linux (x86_64)
centos5-32	CentOS Linux 5 (i386)
centos5-64	CentOS Linux 5 (x86_64)
centos6-32	CentOS Linux 6 (i386)
centos6-64	CentOS Linux 6 (x86_64)
centos7	CentOS Linux 7 (x86_64)
debian7-32	Debian 7 (wheezy) (i386)
debian7-64	Debian 7 (wheezy) (amd64)
debian8-32	Debian 8 (jessie) (i386)
debian8-64	Debian 8 (jessie) (amd64)
fedora24-32	Fedora 24 (i386)
fedora24-64	Fedora 24 (x86_64)
ubuntu14.04-32	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) (i386)
ubuntu14.04-64	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) (amd64)
ubuntu16.04-32	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) (i386)
ubuntu16.04-64	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) (amd64)
ubuntu16.10-32	Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) (i386)
ubuntu16.10-64	Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) (amd64)

## Providers

The following Vagrant providers are supported:

• parallels
• libvirt
• virtualbox
• vmware_desktop (also known as vmware_fusion and vmware_workstation)

Requirements

• GNU Make

• Packer

• Vagrant: If the build environment is not Linux (e.g. macOS), libvirt builds will be done in an Ubuntu Linux VM controlled by Vagrant. The parallels or vmware_desktop provider is required for this as VirtualBox does not support nested virtualization for 64-bit guests.

• jq

• Hypervisors

  • Parallels Desktop for Mac with Parallels Virtualization SDK
  • VirtualBox
  • VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation Player or VMware Workstation Pro

• Atlas account

• vars.json file containing configuration variables as described below

Configuration

Packer Variables

Name	Description
atlas_username	Atlas username or organization name
atlas_token	Atlas API token
parallels_tools_version	String to be included in Atlas description
virtualbox_additions_version	String to be included in Atlas description
vmware_tools_version	String to be included in Atlas description

Example

{
    "atlas_token": "ABCDEFGHIJKLMN.atlasv1.OPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS",
    "atlas_username": "username",
    "parallels_tools_version": "12.0.2",
    "virtualbox_additions_version": "5.1.8",
    "vmware_tools_version": "10.1.0"
}

Usage Examples

$ make centos7
$ make debian8-virtualbox
$ make HEADLESS=false fedora24-64
$ make ubuntu16.10-32-parallels