Re: [vagrant-up] Can (and how) additional OS rpms be added to generic/centos7 or generic/rhel7 Vagrant boxes ?

[BDutta]

On Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at 1:29:01 AM UTC+5:30, BDutta wrote:
>
>
> On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 8:07:38 PM UTC+5:30, Jeff Bonhag wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> The generic boxes are maintained by https://roboxes.org/ (see 
>> https://app.vagrantup.com/generic). That organization maintains a set of 
>> Packer templates for each provider. For example, here is their builder for 
>> VirtualBox/CentOS 7:
>>
>> https://github.com/lavabit/robox/blob/master/generic-virtualbox.json#L1781
>>
>>
> Perfect. Just the bit of information I needed. It is indeed based on 
> CentOS7 Minimal ISO, as I could see.
> Thanks.
>

Wrote too soon. I noticed that the box is using a rather old Guest 
Additions iso, from the 5.x line:
"guest_additions_url": "
https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.34/VBoxGuestAdditions_5.2.34.iso
",
where-as my VirtualBox is from the 6.x line.

In my vagrant ssh console, here is what I see:
[vagrant@centos7 yum.repos.d]$ lsmod | grep vboxguest
vboxguest 311499  2 vboxsf

and also,
[vagrant@centos7 yum.repos.d]$ sudo /usr/sbin/VBoxService --version
5.2.34r133893

Does it mean that the guest additions from Virtualbox 5.x are working well 
with Virtualbox 6.x ? Seems unlikely based on what I recollect about 
virtualbox guest additions.

In anycase, I think this question is perhaps more appropriate for 
Virtualbox forums, but would be happy to find answer here as well, 
especially in vagrant box context.


> Cheers,
>> Jeff
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 9:44 AM BDutta  wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the response.
>>>
>>> It there a way to know if the generic/centos7 box is built using CentOS7 
>>> 'minimal' image or 'full image' ?
>>> Is there some box specific metadata that is available or a way to check 
>>> for this information with the box publisher ?
>>>
>>> On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 4:33:06 AM UTC+5:30, Alvaro Miranda 
>>> Aguilera wrote:

 hello

 in general:

 you can run scripts and install the software you need.
 https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/shell.html

 if the process is too slow, you can build your own boxes ready to use.

 Alvaro

 On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 9:39 PM BDutta  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Absolute Vagrant newbie here.
>
> Are the generic/centos7 or generic/rhel7 Vagrant boxes, extensible or 
> upgradable such that additional operating system rpms could be installed ?
> I am assuming that those boxes might be setup using the minimal image? 
> What if I need some of the rpms that are available as part of standard 
> RHEL7/CentOS7 distribution, but not on the box ?
>
> cheers,
> B
>


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Re: [vagrant-up] Can (and how) additional OS rpms be added to generic/centos7 or generic/rhel7 Vagrant boxes ?

[BDutta]

On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 8:07:38 PM UTC+5:30, Jeff Bonhag wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> The generic boxes are maintained by https://roboxes.org/ (see 
> https://app.vagrantup.com/generic). That organization maintains a set of 
> Packer templates for each provider. For example, here is their builder for 
> VirtualBox/CentOS 7:
>
> https://github.com/lavabit/robox/blob/master/generic-virtualbox.json#L1781
>
>
Perfect. Just the bit of information I needed. It is indeed based on 
CentOS7 Minimal ISO, as I could see.
Thanks.

Cheers,
> Jeff
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 9:44 AM BDutta > 
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the response.
>>
>> It there a way to know if the generic/centos7 box is built using CentOS7 
>> 'minimal' image or 'full image' ?
>> Is there some box specific metadata that is available or a way to check 
>> for this information with the box publisher ?
>>
>> On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 4:33:06 AM UTC+5:30, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> hello
>>>
>>> in general:
>>>
>>> you can run scripts and install the software you need.
>>> https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/shell.html
>>>
>>> if the process is too slow, you can build your own boxes ready to use.
>>>
>>> Alvaro
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 9:39 PM BDutta  wrote:
>>>
 Hi,

 Absolute Vagrant newbie here.

 Are the generic/centos7 or generic/rhel7 Vagrant boxes, extensible or 
 upgradable such that additional operating system rpms could be installed ?
 I am assuming that those boxes might be setup using the minimal image? 
 What if I need some of the rpms that are available as part of standard 
 RHEL7/CentOS7 distribution, but not on the box ?

 cheers,
 B

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Re: [vagrant-up] Can (and how) additional OS rpms be added to generic/centos7 or generic/rhel7 Vagrant boxes ?

[Jeff Bonhag]

Hi there,

The generic boxes are maintained by https://roboxes.org/ (see
https://app.vagrantup.com/generic). That organization maintains a set of
Packer templates for each provider. For example, here is their builder for
VirtualBox/CentOS 7:

https://github.com/lavabit/robox/blob/master/generic-virtualbox.json#L1781

Cheers,
Jeff

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 9:44 AM BDutta  wrote:

> Thanks for the response.
>
> It there a way to know if the generic/centos7 box is built using CentOS7
> 'minimal' image or 'full image' ?
> Is there some box specific metadata that is available or a way to check
> for this information with the box publisher ?
>
> On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 4:33:06 AM UTC+5:30, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera
> wrote:
>>
>> hello
>>
>> in general:
>>
>> you can run scripts and install the software you need.
>> https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/shell.html
>>
>> if the process is too slow, you can build your own boxes ready to use.
>>
>> Alvaro
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 9:39 PM BDutta  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Absolute Vagrant newbie here.
>>>
>>> Are the generic/centos7 or generic/rhel7 Vagrant boxes, extensible or
>>> upgradable such that additional operating system rpms could be installed ?
>>> I am assuming that those boxes might be setup using the minimal image?
>>> What if I need some of the rpms that are available as part of standard
>>> RHEL7/CentOS7 distribution, but not on the box ?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> B
>>>
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Re: [vagrant-up] Can (and how) additional OS rpms be added to generic/centos7 or generic/rhel7 Vagrant boxes ?

[BDutta]

Thanks for the response.

It there a way to know if the generic/centos7 box is built using CentOS7 
'minimal' image or 'full image' ?
Is there some box specific metadata that is available or a way to check for 
this information with the box publisher ?

On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 4:33:06 AM UTC+5:30, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera 
wrote:
>
> hello
>
> in general:
>
> you can run scripts and install the software you need.
> https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/shell.html
>
> if the process is too slow, you can build your own boxes ready to use.
>
> Alvaro
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 9:39 PM BDutta > 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Absolute Vagrant newbie here.
>>
>> Are the generic/centos7 or generic/rhel7 Vagrant boxes, extensible or 
>> upgradable such that additional operating system rpms could be installed ?
>> I am assuming that those boxes might be setup using the minimal image? 
>> What if I need some of the rpms that are available as part of standard 
>> RHEL7/CentOS7 distribution, but not on the box ?
>>
>> cheers,
>> B
>>
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[vagrant-up] Study on annotation of design and implementation choices, and of technical debt

[Gianmarco Fucci]

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