/vagrant-box

Create your own Vagrant box, based on Debian/Ubuntu installer

Primary LanguageShellMIT LicenseMIT

About

This script will:

  1. download the last 'STABLE' version Debian 7.8 "Wheezy" or last 'LTS' version Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" server, 64bit iso
  2. do some magic to turn it into a vagrant box file
  3. output debian/debian-7.8.0-amd64.box or ubuntu/ubuntu-14.04-amd64.box
  4. add just created vagrant box to available list

Requirements

  • Oracle VM VirtualBox
  • Vagrant
  • 7zip
  • curl
  • mkisofs/genisoimage
  • md5sum/md5

Usage on OSX

./build-debian.sh

or

./build-ubuntu.sh

This should do everything you need. If you don't have required package, install homebrew, then:

brew install p7zip
brew install curl
brew install cdrtools
brew install coreutils

Usage on Linux

./build-debian.sh

or

./build-ubuntu.sh

This should do everything you need. If you don't have required package then:

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
sudo apt-get install curl
sudo apt-get install genisoimage
sudo apt-get install coreutils

Usage on Windows (under cygwin/git shell)

./build-debian.sh

or

./build-ubuntu.sh

Tested under Windows 7 with this tools:

Environment variables

You can affect the default behaviour of the script using environment variables:

VAR=value ./build.sh

The following variables are supported:

  • PRESEED — path to custom preseed file. May be useful when if you need some customizations for your private base box (user name, passwords etc.);

  • LATE_CMD — path to custom late_command.sh. May be useful when if you need some customizations for your private base box (user name, passwords etc.);

  • VM_GUI — if set to yes or 1, disables headless mode for vm. May be useful for debugging installer;

Notes

This script basted on original dotzero's repo and with some tweaks to be compatible Debian/Ubuntu.