Hello Anthony this is how I create the boxes.
https://gist.github.com/kikitux/ee20aa07d9534841e103 You can create from template or linked clone in my case, since I am testing the ideal provisioning (according to myself) what I do is packer -> ova -> template then I create 4 boxes Template -> box1 box1 - > box2 (linked clone) box1 - > box3 (linked clone) box1 - > box4 (linked clone) So have a look at my Vagrantfile and maybe you can reuse some ideas On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Anthony Manzo <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using https://github.com/nsidc/vagrant-vsphere and I'm actually using it > on a vcenter host (contrary to what I said). > It's working well, but it's not as fast a using a prebuilt box because it > starts with the template as you said ( and then clones it to a vm). > Thanks for the info on Packer, it looks like I can create a box with that. > > > On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 4:35:26 PM UTC-7, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera > wrote: >> >> Hello Anthony >> >> What plugin are you using? >> >> I think the way the plugin works, require the VM or Template to exist >> on Vmware first. >> >> On my particular case, I use VCSA (sorry, i am lost with >> vcenter/vsphere) and I create the box with packer (packer.io) and I >> have all wrapped with one script >> >> so my script call packer to build the VM and then call OVFTool to >> create an OVA file >> >> then, you can use GOVC to upload these OVA files to VMware: >> https://github.com/vmware/govmomi/releases >> >> Let me know if you need assistance to get this working, happy to share. >> >> Alvaro. >> >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Anthony Manzo <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I wondered what technique you ended up using. I'm experimenting with >> > the >> > vsphere (not vcenter) esxi provider and it's working well off of >> > templates >> > but I would like to know if you've found a way to package your vsphere >> > images as boxes with one of these other options. >> > Cheers , >> > Tony >> > >> > On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 6:15:31 PM UTC-8, Lee Cuevas wrote: >> >> >> >> I would like to create a Vagrant .box image and then use it to deploy >> >> from >> >> my laptop using vsphere. Is this doable? If so, can someone post a link >> >> with >> >> instructions please? >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> >> >> Lee >> > >> > -- >> > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - >> > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in >> > violation >> > of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. >> > >> > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues >> > IRC: #vagrant on Freenode >> > --- >> > 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]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/154ced65-ee55-47d4-8988-3c290194ce83%40googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues IRC: #vagrant on Freenode --- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/CAHqq0eyxJi7sW2E77dnN0B0dNgK%2BA890VYFxRzxjANjT0tONNw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
