Thank you, that makes sense!

On Friday, 17 November 2017 00:14:03 UTC+13, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> lets say your user is home is /home/user
>
> and you have a project like this
>
> /home/user/myproject
>
> Vagrant home directory will be
>
> /home/user/.vagrant.d
>
> The box or your setup can include multiples Vagrantfiles that are all read 
> and joined in memory
>
> /home/user/myproject/Vagrantfile  # this is your local project 
> Vagrantfile, things here are used only is this local project
>
> /home/user/.vagrant.d/boxes/<box>/<version/provider>/Vagrantfile  # this 
> is your box Vagrantfile , will be used in all the projects that use this 
> box.
>
> /home/user/.vagrant.d/Vagrantfile  # this is your global Vagrantfile , 
> will be used in all the projects
>
>
> https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/vagrantfile/#lookup-path
>
>
> Seems you are right that the box one is not in the documentation.
> Will check and came back with something.
>
>
>
> When a box includes a Vagrantfile, its to set something at box level, say 
> you don't want to use Virtualbox shared folder and want to use/force rsync.
>
>
> Thats the one that packer can include.
>
> ie:
>
> $ find ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/ -name Vagrantfile
>
> /c/Users/kikitux/.vagrant.d/boxes/bento-VAGRANTSLASH-ubuntu-16.04/201708.22.0/virtualbox/Vagrantfile
>
> /c/Users/kikitux/.vagrant.d/boxes/centos-VAGRANTSLASH-7/1611.01/virtualbox/Vagrantfile
>
> /c/Users/kikitux/.vagrant.d/boxes/ferventcoder-VAGRANTSLASH-win2012r2-x64-nocm/1.0.0/virtualbox/Vagrantfile
>
> /c/Users/kikitux/.vagrant.d/boxes/hashicorp-VAGRANTSLASH-precise64/1.1.0/virtualbox/Vagrantfile
>
> /c/Users/kikitux/.vagrant.d/boxes/iseo_tech-VAGRANTSLASH-CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503-01/7.1.1/virtualbox/Vagrantfile
> /c/Users/kikitux/.vagrant.d/boxes/oraclelinux7/0/virtualbox/Vagrantfile
>
> /c/Users/kikitux/.vagrant.d/boxes/ubuntu-VAGRANTSLASH-trusty64/20171026.0.0/virtualbox/Vagrantfile
>
>
>
> example of utilization:
>
> $ cat 
> /c/Users/kikitux/.vagrant.d/boxes/centos-VAGRANTSLASH-7/1611.01/virtualbox/Vagrantfile
> Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
>   config.vm.base_mac = "525400225b53"
>   config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "rsync"
> end
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Alvaro.
>
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:26 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> This page <https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/boxes/format.html> on vagrant 
>> file format tells us:
>>
>> Today, there are three different components:
>>>
>>>    - 
>>>    
>>>    Box File - This is a compressed (tar, tar.gz, zip) file that is 
>>>    specific to a single provider and can contain anything. Vagrant core 
>>> does 
>>>    not ever use the contents of this file. Instead, they are passed to the 
>>>    provider. Therefore, a VirtualBox box file has different contents from a 
>>>    VMware box file and so on.
>>>    - 
>>>    
>>>    Box Catalog Metadata - This is a JSON document (typically exchanged 
>>>    during interactions with HashiCorp's Vagrant Cloud 
>>>    <https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/vagrant-cloud>) that specifies the 
>>>    name of the box, a description, available versions, available providers, 
>>>    and URLs to the actual box files (next component) for each provider and 
>>>    version. If this catalog metadata does not exist, a box file can still 
>>> be 
>>>    added directly, but it will not support versioning and updating.
>>>    - 
>>>    
>>>    Box Information - This is a JSON document that can provide 
>>>    additional information about the box that displays when a user runs 
>>> vagrant 
>>>    box list -i. More information is provided here 
>>>    <https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/boxes/info.html>.
>>>    
>>> Note, how vargrantfile is not mentioned anywhere in this description or 
>> elsewhere on the page.
>>
>> Yet, if we read this page 
>> <https://www.packer.io/docs/post-processors/vagrant.html> from packer 
>> documentation we can read:
>>
>> vagrantfile_template 
>>> <https://www.packer.io/docs/post-processors/vagrant.html#vagrantfile_template>
>>>  (string) 
>>> - Path to a template to use for the Vagrantfile that is packaged with the 
>>> box. 
>>
>>
>> This implies that a vagrantfile can indeed be packaged with the box.
>>
>> How does this work? Why one includes vagrantfile with a box and how this 
>> vagrantfile is used and how it interact with the normal vagrantfile which 
>> we are using with `vagrant up`?
>>
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>
>
> -- 
> Alvaro
>
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