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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.
Frequently asked questions
What if my question is not in this FAQ ?
You can contact the developers behind this project on this mailing list https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/ or raise a bug report. Refer to https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting and report the bug against the virtual package cloud.debian.org.
Current list of bugs for the cloud.debian.org package
Base Box details
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Standard Debian system, as created by debootstrap with all packages with priority required, important, standard, and vagrant unix user, set up according to Upstream recommendations
Provisioners
The box does not include provisioners. You can install them at startup by adding 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
For VirtualBox, before Debian 11 "Bullseyes" the default was to use rsync for shared folder, and vboxsf for the -contrib boxes. Starting from Debian 11 Bullseyes, the boxes uses vboxsf.
- For Libvirt, the default is to use NFS for folder sharing.
Build process
The boxes are currently built with fai-diskimage from https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/debian-vagrant-images and uploaded to Hashicorps's Vagrant cloud.
See ?Teams/Cloud/RebuildVagrantBaseBoxes to rebuild the boxes yourself or extend them.