DESCRIPTION

This template provides some bare bones and scripts for building Arch Linux

Supported providers:

• Virtualbox

Contains:

• base packages (base group)
• gcc make guile
• git
• sparrow (and some additional perl modules)

Specification

architecture - x64_86

Interface - bios

disk - 20G ( 1xlvm volume - 18GB )

swap - no

filesystem - ext4

rootpass - root/vagrant

For access use vagrant/vagrant or open public key.

For full information about box see boxes/install.json

NOTE! The VirtualBox Guest Additions are not preinstalled! If you need shared folders please install vbguest plugin.

Or you can use sshfs plugin.

Instructions

For local build you must delete section about uploading to vagrant cloud. After that run:

$ packer build arch-template.json

OR you can use jq

$ jq '.["post-processors"][0] |= map(select(.type != "vagrant-cloud"))' arch-template.json | packer build -

launch with GUI console

$ packer build -var 'headless=false' arch-template.json

See also

sparrow - Used it for scripting

ArchLinux installer - outthentic plugin for installing Arch linux