Also, my question is more about how to pack an existing VM into a box,
rather than finding a base box to begin with. I'd much rather not to rely
on boxes packed by other people - seems insecure to me. To start with, I
can download virtualbox box and then use Vagrant mutate plugin to convert
it into kvm box with libvirt provider. Once it's done, I can provision that
box with all software I need, but I can't package that VM into a new kvm
box with the same libvirt provider. I tried tar'ing .img file from
/var/lib/libvirt/images, metadata.json, and my Vagrantfile into a new .box
file, but when I try to add it to Vagrant to check if it contains
everything I installed into it, it says that metadata may be corrupted.
Official Vagrant docs say that I have to create box manually for any
provider other than virtual box, but I couldn't find any info on how to do
it properly.

On 2 May 2015 at 00:22, Алексей Усов <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, I'll give it a try, but VMs managed by libvirt use libvirt provider,
> not kvm.
>
> On 1 May 2015 at 23:46, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> That box is KVM so I think it use libvirt?
>>
>> Ok, the other link seems was bad..
>>
>> so there is this box
>>
>> https://vagrant-kvm-boxes-si.s3.amazonaws.com/trusty64-kvm-20140418.box
>>
>> So, I downloaded and then extracted
>>
>> x ./box.xml
>> x ./Vagrantfile
>> x ./metadata.json
>> x ./box-disk1.img
>>
>>
>> cat metadata.json
>>
>> {"provider":"kvm"}
>>
>>
>> cat Vagrantfile
>>
>> Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
>>   config.vm.base_mac = '080027A24479'
>> end
>>
>>
>> cat box.xml | gist
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/a190193a9b2f3b4db64f
>>
>>
>> Alvaro
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Алексей Усов <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Thanks for the reply.
>> >
>> > That's the thing - I use libvirt for managing KVM VM. Is there no
>> > difference?
>> >
>> > On 1 May 2015 at 10:48, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello
>> >>
>> >> I would suggest to add this box and try it
>> >>
>> >> if works, then see that's in the box:
>> >>
>> >> https://atlas.hashicorp.com/detain/boxes/ubuntu-14.04-x86_64
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Beckett <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> > Greetings everyone. Could someone explain me how can I package
>> running
>> >> > VM
>> >> > managed by libvirt with KVM driver into a box so anyone who gets it
>> >> > won't
>> >> > have to create & provision it from scratch? The question of
>> packaging a
>> >> > box
>> >> > for virtualbox provider is well covered in the documentation, but
>> >> > libvirt
>> >> > makes it quite tricky. Thank you in advance.
>> >> >
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