The curl command, fails with the following error:

virtualbox-iso: Provisioning with shell script: script/cmtool.sh
virtualbox-iso: ==> Installing Chef
virtualbox-iso: ==> Installing Chef version 11.12.8
virtualbox-iso: % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
virtualbox-iso: Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
virtualbox-iso: 0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
virtualbox-iso: curl: (77) Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?)

It completes successfully when I add the -k (insecure) option to curl:
curl -Lk https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | sh

Some users need to be able to specify a web proxy. Add parameter to the template .json and Makefile to support a parameter specifying a web proxy address..

I'd like to apply package updates to the boxes I'm creating at install time - for CentOS and Fedora boxes, I was thinking simply adding a "yum -y update" line to the %post section of the kickstart files would do it. I'm willing to send a series of patches to provide this behavior for all targets, but am wondering what approach you'd prefer:

If you want package updates by default I can update kickstart files to always apply updates. If you don't want package updates by default, I'm willing to send a series of patches that create various "-updates" targets in the Makefile to allow for generating these boxes separately.

If you'd rather not see any of these patches, that's fine, too - I'll just keep them in my local branch :)

At the moment the path to the packer binary is hardcoded in the Makefile. The path should be configurable. On my system /usr/sbin/packer is part of cracklib-dicts and I unpacked packer in /opt/packer/ and the path to the binary is /opt/packer/packer.

Add option to install Chef DK, CM=chefdk

Minor nitpick but the README says this is for Ubuntu boxes :-)

Overview

This repository contains templates for Ubuntu that can create Vagrant boxes using Packer.

was this intentional?

It seems Guest Additions wasn't installed thus no mounting folders.
Is this on purpose? The ubuntu-vm precise box I built came with guest additions

==> default: Checking for guest additions in VM...
default: No guest additions were detected on the base box for this VM! Guest
default: additions are required for forwarded ports, shared folders, host only
default: networking, and more. If SSH fails on this machine, please install
default: the guest additions and repackage the box to continue.
default:
default: This is not an error message; everything may continue to work properly,
default: in which case you may ignore this message.
==> default: Mounting shared folders...
default: /vagrant => /Users/user/vagrant/box-cutter-centos64
Failed to mount folders in Linux guest. This is usually because
the "vboxsf" file system is not available. Please verify that
the guest additions are properly installed in the guest and
can work properly. The command attempted was:

mount -t vboxsf -o uid=id -u vagrant,gid=getent group vagrant | cut -d: -f3 vagrant /vagrant
mount -t vboxsf -o uid=id -u vagrant,gid=id -g vagrant vagrant /vagrant