Name: vagrant-boxes
Owner: Simpleweb
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If you don't find what you're looking for here, please see veewee for more information.
To build a new Vagrant VM image for use with Virtual Box you'll need a few things:
Core services in place clone this repository to a sensible location:
$ git clone git@github.com:simpleweb/vagrant-boxes.git
$ cd vagrant-boxes
# Download the required gems
$ bundle install --path=./.bundle
Note: A path has been set to avoid polluting your system gems, this will
keep all the required dependencies with in ./.bundle directory within the
repo.
It will help to find a template to work from for the distro you require ? be careful with blindly using the templates however or you may get unexpected results.
$ bundle exec veewee vbox template | grep -i ubuntu
Found your template? Define a new box and tell it to inherit from your chosen
template. Change myubuntubox to the name of your box, and the last string to
the name of the template (or leave it out for no template).
$ bundle exec veewee vbox define 'myubuntubox' 'ubuntu-12.10-server-amd64'
At this stage I would suggest going through your box and customising the tasks that happen. For more information check out customising definitions.
When you're ready to build simply run the build method and watch the magic happen.
$ bundle exec veewee vbox build 'myubuntubox'
In order to use the box in Vagrant, we need to export the VM as a base box (e.g. export to the .box filetype):
$ bundle exec veewee vbox export 'myubuntubox'
This is actually calling vagrant package --base 'myubuntubox' --output 'boxes/myubuntubox.box'.
The machine gets shut down, exported and will be packed in a myubuntubox.box file inside the current directory.
To import it into Vagrant's box repository simply type:
$ vagrant box add 'myubuntubox' 'myubuntubox.box'
The parameter 'myubuntubox' sets the name that Vagrant will use to reference the box (i.e. in the Vagrantfile).
To use your newly generated box in a fresh project execute these commands:
$ vagrant init 'myubuntubox'
If you already have a project running with Vagrant, open the Vagrantfile and change the value of config.vm.box to the new box name:
ant.configure("2") do |config|
nfig.vm.box = "myubuntubox"
See the Vagrantfile machine settings for more details on setting up your Vagrantfile configuration.
Now start the new environment with vagrant up and log in with vagrant ssh to enjoy your new environment.