Vagrant base box templates

Packer templates for building Vagrant base boxes and publishing them to the HashiCorp Atlas box catalogue.

## Description

All boxes are configured as follows:

• 48 GiB sparse expandable virtual disk
• Second virtual disk for swap (except for libvirt boxes)
• Minimal package set
• Default installation settings wherever possible
• Paravirtualized device drivers where available
• Guest add-ons where available
• Customized according to Vagrant guidelines

## Providers

The following Vagrant providers are supported:

• parallels
• libvirt
• virtualbox
• vmware_desktop (also known as vmware_fusion and vmware_workstation)

• GNU Make

• Packer

• Vagrant: If the build environment is not Linux (e.g. macOS), libvirt builds will be done in an Ubuntu Linux VM controlled by Vagrant. The parallels or vmware_desktop provider is required for this as VirtualBox does not support nested virtualization for 64-bit guests.

• jq

• Hypervisors

  • Parallels Desktop for Mac with Parallels Virtualization SDK
  • VirtualBox
  • VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation Player or VMware Workstation Pro

• Atlas account

• vars.json file containing configuration variables as described below

{
    "atlas_token": "ABCDEFGHIJKLMN.atlasv1.OPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS",
    "atlas_username": "username",
    "parallels_tools_version": "12.0.2",
    "virtualbox_additions_version": "5.1.8",
    "vmware_tools_version": "10.1.0"
}

$ make centos7
$ make debian8-virtualbox
$ make HEADLESS=false fedora24-64
$ make ubuntu16.10-32-parallels