wsl-virtualbox

VBoxManage wrapper to use Virtualbox from WSL for Packer. This is very experimental and may cause issues. Use it in your own risk.

Modern Updates

The original project was 4 years old. There were a few existing forks that made good fixes (@webhead404 and @3lixy). I took those and also added my own fix to /tmp path handling.

Use Case

You have a Windows host
You want to use Packer to make Windows VMs
You want to use Ansible to provision Windows VMs
You can't support nested virtualization

As of April 2022, this has been tested to work with the following:

Windows 10
Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL 2
Packer 1.8.0
VirtualBox 6.1.32

Installation

sudo su
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
wget -O /usr/local/bin/VBoxManage.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/finarfin/wsl-virtualbox/master/VBoxManage.sh
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/VBoxManage.sh
ln -s /usr/local/bin/VBoxManage.sh /usr/bin/VBoxManage
exit

Validate

VBoxManage --version

Usage