Bento is a project that encapsulates Packer templates for building Vagrant base boxes. A subset of templates are built and published to the bento org on Vagrant Cloud. These published boxes serve as the default boxes for kitchen-vagrant.
Adding a bento box to Vagrant
$ vagrant box add bento/ubuntu-18.04
Using a bento box in a Vagrantfile
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.box = "bento/ubuntu-18.04"
end
- Packer
- At least one of the following virtualization providers:
- VirtualBox
- VMware Fusion
- VMware Workstation
- Parallels Desktop also requires Parallels Virtualization SDK
- KVM *
- Hyper-V *
*NOTE: support for these providers is considered experimental and corresponding Vagrant Cloud images may or may not exist.
To build an Ubuntu 18.04 box for only the VirtualBox provider
$ cd ubuntu
$ packer build -only=virtualbox-iso ubuntu-18.04-amd64.json
To build Debian 10.4 32bit boxes for all possible providers (simultaneously)
$ cd debian
$ packer build debian-10.4-i386.json
To build CentOS 7.7 boxes for all providers except VMware and Parallels
$ cd centos
$ packer build -except=parallels-iso,vmware-iso centos-7.7-x86_64.json
To use an alternate mirror
$ cd fedora
$ packer build -var 'mirror=http://mirror.utexas.edu/fedora/linux' fedora-31-x86_64.json
To build a Windows 10 Enterprise Gen 2 box for the Hyper-V provider
$ cd windows
$ packer build windows-10gen2.json
If the build is successful, your box files will be in the builds directory at the root of the repository.
*NOTE: box_basename can be overridden like other Packer vars with -var 'box_basename=ubuntu-18.04'
You must download the iso image with the Windows drivers for paravirtualized KVM/qemu hardware. You can do this from the command line: wget -nv -nc https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/stable-virtio/virtio-win.iso -O virtio-win.iso.
You can use the following sample command to build a KVM/qemu Windows box:
packer build --only=qemu --var virtio_win_iso=~/virtio-win.iso windows-2019.json
Templates for operating systems only available via license or subscription are also available in the repository, these include but are not limited to: macOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise. As the ISOs are not publicly available the URL values will need to be overridden as appropriate. We rely on the efforts of those with access to licensed versions of the operating systems to keep these up-to-date.
Most of the providers expect unrestricted access to networking in order to build as expected. We can't enumerate all possible firewall configurations but include some snippets below that might be useful to users.
$VS = "Standardswitch"
$IF_ALIAS = (Get-NetAdapter -Name "vEthernet ($VS)").ifAlias
New-NetFirewallRule -Displayname "Allow incomming from $VS" -Direction Inbound -InterfaceAlias $IF_ALIAS -Action AllowHyper-V Gen 2 VMs do not support floppy drives. If you previously provided resources using a floppy drive, you must add those files to your Gen 2 iso images, in particular:
autounattend.xml: The Gen 2autounattend.xmlfile supports EFI partitions. Update theautounattend.xmlwith the correct Windows version for your systems and ensure that the partitions are correct for your situation. You also need to manage the driver disk that holds the hyper-v guest services drivers and adjust theautounattend.xmlfile as appropriate.base_setup.ps1
See this wiki page
Please use GitHub issues to report bugs, features, or other problems.
- https://github.com/boxcutter
- https://github.com/mcandre/packer-templates
- https://github.com/timsutton/osx-vm-templates
- https://github.com/ferventcoder/vagrant-windows-puppet/tree/master/baseboxes
These basebox templates were converted from veewee definitions originally based on work done by Tim Dysinger to make "Don't Repeat Yourself" (DRY) modular baseboxes. Thanks Tim!
macOS templates were adopted wholesale from Fletcher Nichol's packer templates.
- Author: Chris McClimans ([email protected])
- Author: Fletcher Nichol ([email protected])
- Author: Joshua Timberman ([email protected])
- Author: Julian Dunn ([email protected])
- Author: Ross Timson ([email protected])
- Author: Seth Chisamore ([email protected])
- Author: Stephen Delano ([email protected])
- Author: Tim Dysinger ([email protected])
- Author: Tim Smith ([email protected])
- Author: Tom Duffield ([email protected])
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