eby/vagrant-box

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

About

This script will:

1. download the latest version of Debian netinst or Ubuntu server 64bit iso
2. do some magic to turn it into a vagrant box file
3. output debian/debian-x.y.0-amd64.box or ubuntu/ubuntu-xx.yy-amd64.box
4. add just created vagrant box to available list

Requirements

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

Before usage

I've decided to don't use git tags further, so instead, I've created separate git branches with all available distributions and versions. You can see all of them here: https://github.com/kraksoft/vagrant-box/branches/active

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:

• 7zip
• cpio
• mkisofs
• md5

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.