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De : "olivier sallou" <[email protected]>
Date : 27 sept. 2013 07:49
Objet : Re: debian-build-cloud and Vagrant
À : "Anders Ingemann" <[email protected]>


Le 26 sept. 2013 17:34, "Anders Ingemann" <[email protected]> a écrit :

>
> Hi Olivier
>
> > Regarding packaging of the build-debian-cloud, we could put vagrant
provider as a separate package in contrib itself.
> That's certainly a possibility, though it'd be awesome if we could figure
out a way to avoid that. I'll begin looking myself for free alternatives.
>

> > vagrant provider does not install Guest Additions (as in contrib), so
vagrant image has a few restrictions (shared folders...)
> It should actually be part of the VirtualBox provider. I'll see if I can
find the time to add that.
>
For the moment, the vagrant box creation is not in my vagrant branch in
github ,I manually do it from the generated vmdk. I expected to find a
variant that would remove VB dependency.

I wil not focus on additions in the manwhile.

>
> Anders
>
>
> On 26 September 2013 13:17, olivier sallou <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>
>> Hi Anders,
>> I have a provider for Vagrant that works fine, but following our
previous discussion on VirtualBox and many tests, it appears that
VirtualBox does not accept qemu-img converted vmdk files (vmdk headers
issues).
>> Vagrant needs a vmdk disk to work.
>>
>> To get a vmdk file accepted by virtualbox, we need to convert the raw
image to vmdk with VBoxManager commands from VirtualBox. This means we need
VirtualBox as dependency on Host (not image).
>> I could not find any converter doing correctly the job for virtualBox.
>>
>> As I  said, it is in contrib. However, when generating Vagrant images,
it would make sense that user will have VirtualBox to test the image etc...
>> Regarding packaging of the build-debian-cloud, we could put vagrant
provider as a separate package in contrib itself.
>>
>> PS: vagrant provider does not install Guest Additions (as in contrib),
so vagrant image has a few restrictions (shared folders...)
>>
>>
>> Olivier
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