VeeWee Definitions for Creating Mageia Vagrant Boxes

Various new and modified template definitions to create veewee boxes for vagrant.

Please see below for instructions how to build boxes using veewee and this definitions.

Definitions

General Configuration

• Based on prior work from thatsamguy.
• All definitions are minimal, including only vboxadditions, sshd and urpmi.
• Mageias auto configuration feature is used.
• No localization, no timezone, no key-mappings, no mouse, and no hardware definitions
• Clean up installations much more, move most custom package installation into several smaller post-install scripts.
• Installs VirtualBox Guests Additions for the installed kernel.
• Change vagrant base config to 2 CPU, 512MB RAM
• Optional install Ruby (from distribution), puppet (from distribution) and chef (from gems)
• Use boot-nonfree iso for network based install.

Definition List

Mageia-Cauldron-Vagrant-Server-minimal-x86_64:	base config: 2 CPU, 512MB RAM a minimal server, including only vboxadditions, sshd and urpmi.
Mageia-4-Vagrant-Server-minimal-x86_64:	base config: 2 CPU, 512MB RAM a minimal server, including only vboxadditions, sshd and urpmi.
Mageia-3-Vagrant-Server-minimal-x86_64:	base config: 2 CPU, 512MB RAM a minimal server, including only vboxadditions, sshd and urpmi.

Building Boxes

Mind the firewall!

Installing veewee and requirements

Install prebuild native extensions (this saves from installing the development packages):

urpmi ruby-nokogiri ruby-ffi ruby-posix-spawn ruby-libxml ruby-libvirt
gem install --no-ri --no-rdoc veewee

If you want to remove these gems later use this line:

gem list --local | grep -Pi '^[a-z]' | sed 's/ .*//' | xargs gem uninstall

Installing the box definitions

git clone https://github.com/htgoebel/veewee-definitions
cd veewee-definitions

Buidling the Boxes

Again: Mind the firewall on your workstation!

for name in Mageia-3-server-x86_64-minimal Mageia-4-server-x86_64-minimal ; do
    ./build-box.sh $name
    ./test-box.sh $name
done

mv -i *.box /path/to/store/vagrant-boxes/

This basically does the following for each box definition:

veewee vbox build --nogui --force $name
veevee vbox halt $name
VBoxManage modifyvm $name --ostype "Mageia_64"
veewee vbox export --force $name
veewee vbox destroy $name

vagrant box add $name $PWD/$name.box
vagrant init $name
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
vagrant destroy
rm Vagrantfile