Thanks, Alvaro.  I see that the procedure at 
http://hadooppowered.com/2014/05/10/create-a-debian-wheezy-vagrant-box/ 
removes the guest additions during the cleanup process.

I know that the purpose of the cleanup is to minimize the size of the box, 
but is there ANY legitimate reason to remove the guest additions?  I know 
that guest additions are what allow projects you create in the virtual 
environment to automatically be synced to a folder in the host system, but 
I didn't realize that the guest additions are what allow the automatic 
login to work when one enters "vagrant up".

If removing guest additions means disabling file syncing and the automatic 
login process when one enters "vagrant up", then what's the point of having 
Vagrant in the first place?  One might as well just work with VirtualBox 
directly and skip Vagrant.

On Sunday, October 12, 2014 5:10:46 AM UTC-5, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Error message state virtualbox additions are not there.
>
> You need to install that, and if you upgrade the kernel, reboot the 
> machine and then rebuild the kernel modules
>
> in EL/fedora is done like /etc/init.d/vbox-add setup
>
> this is required as the folder where you Vagrantfile is will be mounted as 
> /vagrant inside the vm.
>
> Also, before packaing the box.
>
> edit the eth0 conf file, remove UUID and macaddress and ensure is ready 
> for dhcp
> delete other nic configurations like eth1 eth2
>
> check /etc/udev/rules.d/ if there is a file like 70-persistent-net.rules 
> or similar delete it, this cause issues on EL/Fedora not sure on other 
> distros.
>
>
> To create boxes, have a look at packer.io with a json file as template, 
> you can build automatically a box.
>
> Hope this helps
> Alvaro
>

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