packer: virtualbox

Prep

• Vagrant
• vagrant init hashicorp/precise64
• vagrant up
• vagrant destroy -f

Generate

• Packer
• find ~/.vagrant.d/ -name '*ovf' -ls | grep hashi
• create ex001.json
• see below
• fix "source_path" to ovf file to match your system
• packer validate ex001.json
• packer build ex001.json
• vagrant box add my-box-001 packer_virtualbox-ovf_virtualbox.box --force

Test

• mkdir test001
• cd test001
• vagrant init
• in generated "Vagrantfile", change 1st line to 2nd line
•   config.vm.box = "base"
•   config.vm.box = "my-box-001"
• vagrant up
• vagrant ssh
• cat /var/tmp/welcome.txt
• should say, "welcome001"
• vagrant destroy -f

Cleanup

• vagrant box remove my-box-001 --force
• vagrant box remove hashicorp/precise64 --force

---

ex001.json

{
  "builders": [{
      "type": "virtualbox-ovf",
      "source_path": "<path to your home dir>/.vagrant.d//boxes/hashicorp-VAGRANTSLASH-precise64/1.1.0/virtualbox/box.ovf",
      "ssh_username": "vagrant",
      "ssh_password": "vagrant",
      "shutdown_command": "echo 'packer' | sudo -S shutdown -P now"
    }],
    "provisioners": [
        {
            "type": "shell",
            "inline":[ "echo welcome001 > /var/tmp/welcome.txt" ]
        }
    ],
    "post-processors": ["vagrant"]
}