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--- vagrant [2016/01/08 01:46]
admin [Vagrant Box & Templates]
+++ vagrant [2016/01/08 04:40]
admin [Custom Vagrant Box Using Veewee]
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 > You can define really complex environments through a single configuration file, then share that with other people. The added bonus, is that your environments are self documenting, in that it is easy to read the configuration file and see what is going on.
+==== Custom Vagrant Box Using Veewee ====
+The following requires VirtualBox, Ruby, and Vagrant to be installed.
+=== Install Veewee ===
+<code>
+> sudo gem install veewee
+</code>
+In case you get an error of type:
+<code>
+ERROR:  Error installing veewee:
+	ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
+    /usr/bin/ruby2.1 extconf.rb
+mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /usr/lib/ruby/include/ruby.h
+extconf failed, exit code 1
+Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/2.1.0/gems/posix-spawn-0.3.11 for inspection.
+Results logged to /var/lib/gems/2.1.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.1.0/posix-spawn-0.3.11/gem_make.out
+</code>
+You need to install the ruby-dev library:
+<code>
+> sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
+</code>
+=== List available Veewee templates ===
+To list available templates issue the following command:
+<code>
+> veewee vbox templates
+> veewee vbox templates | grep -i debian
+</code>
+=== Define a new basebox off and existing template ===
+We'd like to set up a **Debian 8.2** box, but there is only a **Debian-7.6.0-amd64-netboot** template available, let's start with this one:
+<code>
+> veewee vbox define 'debian-8.2-amd64' 'Debian-7.6.0-amd64-netboot' --workdir=/home/user/Vagrant
+</code>
+At this stage we have a //**definitions**// directory that was created under //**/home/user/Vagrant**// (our workdir). Inside this directory is another one named //**debian-8.2-amd64**// after our previous ''%%veewee vbox define%%'' command options. Inside this //definitions// directory we'll look at two files:
+__//**definition.rb**//__
+Change the following lines:
+<code>
+...
+  :iso_file => "debian-7.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso",
+  :iso_src => "http://mirror.i3d.net/pub/debian-cd/7.6.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-7.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso",
+  :iso_md5 => "8a3c2ad7fd7a9c4c7e9bcb5cae38c135",
+...
+     'console-keymaps-at/keymap=fr ',
+     'keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap=fr ',
+...
+</code>
+To this:
+<code>
+...
+  :iso_file => "debian-8.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso",
+  :iso_src => "http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.2.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso",
+  #:iso_md5 => "8a3c2ad7fd7a9c4c7e9bcb5cae38c135",
+...
+</code>
+The **iso_md5** parameter is commented out as I couldn't figure out where to find this for Debian releases :-\
+__//**preseed.cfg**//__
+Change the following lines:
+<code>
+...
+# Keyboard selection.
+#d-i keymap select us
+d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us
+...
+d-i partman/default_filesystem string ext3
+...
+# Individual additional packages to install
+d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server ntp acpid  sudo bzip2 rsync
+...
+#d-i grub-installer/bootdev  string (hd0,0)
+...
+</code>
+To this:
+<code>
+...
+# Keyboard selection.
+#d-i keymap select us
+d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select fr
+...
+d-i partman/default_filesystem string ext4
+...
+# Individual additional packages to install
+d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server ntp acpid sudo bzip2 rsync ruby-dev
+...
+d-i grub-installer/bootdev  string /dev/sda
+...
+</code>
+Adding ruby-dev is mandatory here as otherwise an error will be thrown when trying to install some gems.
+=== Local iso repository ===
+We can create an **iso** directory in our workdir where downloaded iso will be stored for future usage (avoiding recurrent downloads).
+<code>
+> mkdir /home/user/Vagrant/iso
+</code>
+=== Build the box ===
+We can now tell Veewee to build our Debian 8.2.0 box:
+<code>
+> veewee vbox build 'debian-8.2-amd64'
+</code>
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