Hi Douglas, Maybe you can use Packer's "Vagrant post-processor"? https://www.packer.io/docs/post-processors/vagrant.html
Regards, Ronan Amicel On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:12 PM, Douglas Garstang <[email protected]> wrote: > Alvaro. > > I guess I meant to post to the packer list. Oops. Anyway, option B is what > I am doing. I have a resultant ovf file. What I can't find anywhere, is how > do I then convert that to a .box file so that vagrant can use it? > > Doug. > > > On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 12:51:27 PM UTC-8, Alvaro Miranda > Aguilera wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> 2 options. >> >> A. >> >> you create a box using the source machine >> >> you provision with the Vagrantfile, then you need to use vagrant package >> >> https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/cli/package.html >> >> It need to match the name of the vm in the gui, so you can use >> >> VBoxManage list vms >> >> and then >> >> vagrant package --base <source_vm_name> --output <name_of_box.box> >> >> just use a final name on the output, since I read that some people had >> issues if they rename it. >> >> >> B. >> >> You copy the ovf and vmdk of the source to a directory, and use packer.io >> >> you can put those files into a directory, say source, then create a >> packer json template like this >> >> { >> "variables": { >> "ssh_name": "vagrant", >> "ssh_pass": "vagrant", >> "output": "outputbox", >> "compression" : 6 >> }, >> >> "builders": [{ >> "type": "virtualbox-ovf", >> "guest_additions_mode": "disable", >> "source_path": "source/packer-virtualbox-ovf-1423592072.ovf", >> "output_directory": "output-{{user `output`}}", >> "vm_name": "{{user `hostname`}}", >> "headless" : 0, >> "ssh_username": "{{user `ssh_name`}}", >> "ssh_password": "{{user `ssh_pass`}}", >> "ssh_wait_timeout": "40m", >> "shutdown_command": "shutdown -h now", >> "shutdown_timeout": "40m" >> }], >> >> "provisioners" : [ >> { >> "type": "shell", >> "execute_command": "sh '{{ .Path }}'", >> "inline": [ >> "echo line end in comma", >> "echo last line has no comma" >> ] >> } >> ], >> >> "post-processors": [ >> { >> "type": "vagrant", >> "only": ["virtualbox-ovf"], >> "keep_input_artifact": true, >> "output": "{{user `output`}}.box", >> "compression_level": "{{user `compression`}}" >> } >> ] >> } >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Douglas Garstang >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > All, >> > >> > I'm trying to rebundle the Ubuntu vagrant box (add some stuff to it). >> So, I >> > started with the virtualbox-ovf builder. I have a resulting >> > output-virtualbox-ovf/ directory with the following files in it. >> > >> > [chef=dev] Douglass-MacBook-Pro:output-virtualbox-ovf doug$ ls -l >> > total 819680 >> > -rw------- 1 doug staff 419660288 Feb 10 10:15 >> > packer-virtualbox-ovf-1423592072-disk1.vmdk >> > -rw------- 1 doug staff 11426 Feb 10 10:15 >> > packer-virtualbox-ovf-1423592072.ovf >> > >> > I've been searching for hours and I can't find how to add this back >> into >> > vagrant again as a box so I can use it. I'm rather frustrated that this >> > seems so difficult. I've tried using various combinations of 'vagrant >> box >> > add' and all return errors. I then moved onto 'VBoxManage import', >> which >> > does something, I just don't know what. >> > >> > I suppose I could use the source Ubuntu vagrant box, use a Vagrantfile >> to >> > start the VM, and then a shell provisioner in Vagrantfile to add what I >> > need, and then use 'vagrant package' but that seems clunky compared to >> just >> > using the virtualbox builder and doing it in one step with that. >> > >> > Doug >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "Vagrant" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vagrant" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
