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(Last Updated On: November 24, 2018)This is a short tutorial on how to create a Vagrant machine from existing Virtualbox Virtual Machine. Vagrant tool gives you the best environment to manage and control your Virtual Machines. This works on any Linux Distribution
Installing Vagrant box from scratch may not be an efficient way if you already have a running Virtualbox Vm from same Base os as the vagrant box. Additionally, you’ll save bandwidth if you have updated pre-existing Vm and maybe installed additional packages that you’ll like to have on new Vagrant controlled Virtual Machine.
Create a directory for vagrant boxes
Create a directory for vagrant boxes
In our example, we’ll use an existing Virtualbox CentOS 7.1 server. This Virtual Machine is updated and have Asterisk Pbx installed. To use this trick we’ll also need the following software installed.
- Vagrant
- Virtualbox
You can download centos 7.1 vagrant box from the Link Vagrant Centos 7.1.box
or use wget to download it.
or use wget to download it.
Once the download is finished, move it to ~./Vagrant/centos-server-7.1
If you don’t have Virtualbox installed, you can use our articles:
For Fedora: Read How to Install Virtualbox on Fedora 23
For Debian and Ubuntu: How to install Virtualbox Latest on Ubuntu and Kali Linux
For Fedora: Read How to Install Virtualbox on Fedora 23
For Debian and Ubuntu: How to install Virtualbox Latest on Ubuntu and Kali Linux
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NOTE: Make sure your Virtualbox VM i.e in my case Centos-asterisk server have a username called “vagrant” with password “vagrant”. If not you can add it
using the script below.
NOTE: Make sure your Virtualbox VM i.e in my case Centos-asterisk server have a username called “vagrant” with password “vagrant”. If not you can add it
using the script below.
Paste the code below and save the file.
Make the script executable and run it.
Add user account before copying .vmdk file then do the following:
1. Change to directory containing CentOS vagrant box you downloaded.
2. Generate Vagrantfile
3.Edit the name of the box inside Vagrantfile to be “centos-server-7.1”
Your line 15, should be similar to one below
4. Add the vagrant box to your Environment with the name of a box we specified on Vagrantfile
5. Bring the added vm up
If successful in spinning up, you should be logged in by default. If you get error message “default: Warning: Connection timeout. Retrying..”, try press CTL+C and use vagrant ssh to login.
Change directory to VirtualBox VMs directory and find the name of Virtualbox VM that we want to make newly added box use.
Mine is under centos-asterisk folder. With the name of vmdk as centos-asterisk-disk1.vmdk.We need to copy this file to the directory containing vagrant vm we added “centos-server-7.1”.
6. Now rename your added VM on Virtualbox Gui. Before you can rename you have to turn it off.
To rename go to Virtual Machine > General > Basic > Name.See screenshots below.
7. Next thing to do is copy centos-asterisk-disk1.vmdk to box-disk1.vmdk. Make sure the Virtual Machine is off, if not turn it off.
8. Now start vagrant box
9. Install Virtualbox Guest Addtions on the guest OS.
From Host computer, copy to VBoxGuestAdditions.iso~/vagrant/centos-server-7.1. Then on Guest OS run
From Host computer, copy to VBoxGuestAdditions.iso~/vagrant/centos-server-7.1. Then on Guest OS run
If you Love what we do, support us by downloading this tutorial as pdf from the link below:
Enjoy your Vagrant environment.
Enjoy your Vagrant environment.
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Is it possible to automate the creation of a Vagrant .box file for an OS install, from the original ISO?
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To me, this is a significant gap in the end-to-end automation of Operating System install and configuration on a Virtual Machine that Vagrant provides.
Sure, VagrantBox.es provides many base .box OS install files for usage. But some are from third party suppliers and not from the original OS distribution maker. For example Arch Linux: Arch Linux 64 (2012-07-02) http://vagrant.pouss.in/archlinux_2012-07-02.box
Not wanting to be negative about the efforts of third-party suppliers, but some organisations may want the original install image from the original OS provider (e.g. for the Arch example above, this would be: https://www.archlinux.org/download/ ). Reasons for wanting original install image would be security (as it would not be possible to verify the third party image for security compromises and malware) and getting the image as the original suppliers intended without extra stuff not required. Another reason would be to take advantage of new releases direct from the original supplier and not have to wait for a third party to release it as a Vagrant .box
There are guides for creating a .box file from a .ISO image:
But these are manual steps - which goes against the philosphy behind Vagrant of automation and consistency. Especially if many want to achieve the end goal of being able to use the original - this would end up with duplicate effort on everyone's part.
So I would be looking here from a definitive answer that describes how to make a generic automation script to convert a .ISO OS install image into a Vagrant box.
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I think VeeWee provides a great mechanism for preparing a Vagrant box from an ISO:
It already provides a lot of out-of-the-box templates for most distributions, which you can customize if required (although this is often not needed). Alternatively you can create your own definitions.
Vagrant Box Search
Alternatively you can use Packer:
Vagrant Create Box
Which is produced by the same company that makes Vagrant, so it has fairly good integration. Packer itself doesn't provided sample templates I believe, but you can use the ones Puppet Labs uses for its own testing purposes if you like:
This can be used as a solid base for your own templates and modified to taste, or you can raise a PR on the project to contribute back if desired.
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