Packer templates to build a small CentOS Linux box designed for use in Vagrant.

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code.

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This is a set of templates designed for use with Packer to create Vagrant boxes with CentOS installed.

All non-required packages were removed to create this small box. When using this box you may have to install some of the packages that usually are installed on a regular CentOS Linux Vagrant box.

There are a couple of things needed for the templates to work.

Packer, Vagrant, Virtualbox, and VMWare need to be installed on your local computer.

Packer installation instructions can be found here.

Vagrant installation instructions can be found here.

Virtualbox installation instructions can be found here.

As of CentOS Stream release 8 Virtualbox 6.1.27 or higher is required.

VMware installation instructions will depend on the VMware product that you want. Go to the desired product page at VMware and check for the appropriate documentation.

Vagrant support for the VMWare hypervisor is provided by the Vagrant VMWare Utility that can be downloaded from here. and by the Vagrant VMware provider that can be installed by running the following command on a terminal:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vmware-desktop

To create a virtual machine using this box create a folder and run the following command inside that folder:

vagrant init fscm/centos

To start that virtual machine run:

vagrant up

This box is available for multiple providers. See the table below to find out how to run a specific provider.

In order to create a CentOS Linux Vagrant box using this Packer recipe you need to run the following packer command on the root of this project:

packer build [-var 'option=value'] <VARIANT>

• <VARIANT> - [required] The variant that is being build (stream8).

Options:

• disk_size_mb - The disk size in megabytes (default value:8192).
• debug - Enable debug (default value:false).
• domain - The network domain (default value:"vagrant.local").
• hostname - The system hostname (default value:"centos").
• os_version - The OS version (default value:"8").
• password - The password for the user (default value:"stream").
• username - The username for the user (default value:"stream").

The recipe will, by default, build a box for every supported provider. To build only for the desired one(s) use the -only packer option.

List of supported providers:

More than one provider can be specified by separating the names with commas (e.g.: -only=virtualbox-iso.virtualbox,vmware-iso.vmware).

A build example:

packer build -only=vmware-iso.vmware -var 'debug=true' stream8

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request

Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md file for more details on how to contribute to this project.

This project uses SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

• Frederico Martins - fscm

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details