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This boxes use [[https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/synced-folders/rsync.html|vagrant rsync]] to share the current directory to the /vagrant directory inside the box. Syncing happens once when you fires {{{vagrant up}}}, if you want this to happen continuously in the background, start {{{vagrant rsync-auto}}} afterwards. |
These boxes use [[https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/synced-folders/rsync.html|vagrant rsync]] to share the current directory to the `/vagrant` directory inside the box. Syncing happens once when you fire {{{vagrant up}}}, if you want this to happen continuously in the background, start {{{vagrant rsync-auto}}} afterwards. |
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The boxes are currently with Packer from the following git repository | The boxes are currently built with Packer from the following git repository |
Contents
Introduction
This is a Work in Progress to build official Debian base boxes for Vagrant available in Vagrant Cloud
This blog post from Joey Hess provides a good overview of why we need official Debian base boxes.
Report bugs
see https://app.vagrantup.com/debian/
Base Box details
Content
Standard Debian system, as created by the Debian Installer (all packages with priority required, important, standard), with the following Vagrant specific enhancements
vagrant unix user, setup according to Upstream recommendations
- Speed improvements
- disable DNS resolution in sshd (speed up logins)
- use a 0s grub timeout to speed up booting
- Disk size improvements:
- fill the unused blocks of the file systems with zeroes to reduce disksize
Note that we don't install the Virtualbox guest additions as it would mean pulling package outside the main debian archive. Contrary to what the scary vagrant up message says, Vagrant and Virtualbox don't need the Virtualbox guest additions for shared folders and port forwarding.
Provisioners
The box does not include provisioners. You can install them at startup by adding in the Vagrant.configure block in your Vagrantfile
# puppet config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "apt-get install --yes puppet" # ansible does not need a client, but needs python-apt to install packages config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "apt-get install --yes python-apt"
Shared folders
These boxes use vagrant rsync to share the current directory to the /vagrant directory inside the box. Syncing happens once when you fire vagrant up, if you want this to happen continuously in the background, start vagrant rsync-auto afterwards.
On Windows, we recommend to start Vagrant from a Cygwin or Msys environment, in which you have installed ssh and rsync.
Alternatively on all platforms, you can use the vagrant-vbguest plugin to build the Virtualbox guest extensions.
Build process
The boxes are currently built with Packer from the following git repository http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/cloud/debian-vm-templates.git/ and uploaded to Hashicorps's Vagrant cloud.
See ?Teams/Cloud/RebuildVagrantBaseBoxes to build the boxes yourself or extend them.
Versioning schema
We use the following versioning scheme: DEBIAN VERSION NUMBER + BOX VERSION Ex: 8.0.4 means we use the box uses the Debian release 8.0, the .4 means it is the fourth version based on this release that we uploaded to Vagrant Cloud
DFSG
The build process requires the contrib virtualbox package. The reason virtualbox is in contrib is the non DFSG compiler required for compiling the BIOS.
GPG verification
Signed checksums of the latest boxes are available at https://cloud.alioth.debian.org/vagrantboxes/
Provider |
Checksums File |
Signature File |
Signed by |
virtualbox |
virtualbox-*.SHA256SUM |
virtualbox-*.SHA256SUM.gpg |
Emmanuel "Kasper" Kasprzyk <emmanuel@libera.cc> |
lxc |
SHA256SUMS-lxc |
SHA256SUMS-lxc.sig |
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> |
After downloading the checksum and the signature files, you can verify the box authenticity by running gpg --verify against the signature file:
gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.gpg gpg: Signature made Fri 11 Sep 2015 12:19:50 AM CEST using RSA key ID 91E95791 gpg: Good signature from "Emmanuel "Kasper" Kasprzyk <emmanuel@libera.cc>"
wget https://vagrantcloud.com/debian/boxes/stretch64/versions/9.2.0/providers/virtualbox.box
vagrant box add --name debian/stretch64 --provider virtualbox --checksum 3625435cbc6ace0a033f64e9495de65286d92d6560dfefe9239a3f9ab02f98a1 --checksum-type sha256 virtualbox.box
Direct checksumming from app.vagrantup.com does not work, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=878759
Debian account on app.vagrantup.com
Currently owned by EmmanuelKasper and AntonioTerceiro
Todo list
We use this trello board: https://trello.com/b/lVRI6QJt/offical-debian-vagrant-base-boxes
People Involved
EmmanuelKasper, Antonio Terceiro, Lucas Nussbaum