On Fedora doing: dnf groupinstall "Fedora Workstation" will install
whatever you get on Workstation version.

I recommend just download and unpack a bento fedora box and run
virtualbox-ovf on that.

On 25 October 2016 at 11:03, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Henrik Lynggaard Hansen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> now have got the fedora Server example to work in text mode, but don't
>> know how to add the GUI manually. Apparently installing a desktop
>> environment with dnf only puts the packages there.
>
>
> Hello.
>
> We are on Packer mailing list, and most ppl will use it for server like
> boxes, so will be command line.
>
> For redhat, the way to install is:
>
> yum grouplist
>
> identify the group you want
>
> yum groupinstall -y "Nameofthegroup"
>
> Then, update /etc/initttab to 5
>
> That will take care of the next run it will have a Graphical login.
>
> You can add users with scripts, you can install software with scripts, etc.
>
> So you should be able to create a boxthat when a user turns it on, they
> see a graphical desktop.
>
> What packer/scripts wont do, is run an graphical application and press
> buttons.
>
> Is normal practice in unix/linux that applications have configuration
> files in the filesystem you can update, is very rare one software that
> can't be configured by command line.
>
>
> Hope this helps
> Alvaro.
>
>
>
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