---------- Message transféré ---------- 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 >> -- >> >> gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (keyring.debian.org) >> >> Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438 > >
