Ladicek's VirtualBox Tool

Ladicek's VirtualBox Tool
Usage: vm <command> [<VM identifier>]

Commands: version, create, start, stop, kill, destroy, list, info, ssh

Usage: vm create [--name <VM identifier>]
                 [--distro ubuntu|ubuntu-lts|fedora|centos]
                 [--cpu <number of CPUs>]
                 [--mem <memory size in MB>]
                 [--cloud-init <path to cloud-init user data YAML file>]

Default values: --name vm-<distro>-<random chars>
                --distro ubuntu
                --cpu 1
                --mem 1024
                --cloud-init <none>

By default, vm create uses the following vendor-data file:

#cloud-config
ssh_pwauth: true
chpasswd:
  expire: false
users:
- name: user
  plain_text_passwd: user
  lock_passwd: false
  sudo: ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
  shell: /bin/bash

If a JSON file ~/.vm/config.json exists and contains a github-user key:

{
    "github-user": "Ladicek"
}

then vm create uses the following vendor-data file:

#cloud-config
ssh_pwauth: true
chpasswd:
  expire: false
users:
- name: user
  plain_text_passwd: user
  lock_passwd: false
  sudo: ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
  ssh_import_id:
  - gh:Ladicek
  shell: /bin/bash

See https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/ for more information about cloud-init and the user data YAML format.

Installation

Put the vm script into some directory that is on $PATH.

Source the vm.completion script in your .bashrc.

Ladicek/vm

Ladicek's VirtualBox Tool

Installation