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Veewee is a tool for easily (and repeatedly) building custom Vagrant base boxes (VirtualBox format), KVMs, and virtual machine images.
Install VirtualBox
apt-get install virtualbox linux-headers-amd64
Install Veewee requirements
apt-get install ruby ruby-dev build-essential libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev
Install Veewee as a Ruby gem
gem install fog --version 1.8 gem install veewee
List available templates and notive how those for debian are outdated
veewee vbox templates | grep Debian
Get updated veewee definitions (ie local templates)
git clone https://github.com/russkel/puppet-vagrant-boxes cd puppet-vagrant-boxes
Veewee chokes on downloading the guest additions, we have to do it ourselves: you'll get this error
Downloading vbox guest additions iso v - http://download.virtualbox.org /virtualbox//VBoxGuestAdditions_.iso Checking if isofile VBoxGuestAdditions_.iso already exists. Full path: /root/puppet-vagrant-boxes/iso/VBoxGuestAdditions_.iso /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/open-uri.rb:346:in `open_http': 404 Not found (OpenURI::HTTPError)
Download the virtualbox Guest Additions
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.18/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.1.18.iso -O iso/VBoxGuestAdditions_.iso
Start building the VM
veewee vbox build debian-710-x64-vbox4212 veewee vbox export debian-710-x64-vbox4212
At this point you will see the VM in VirtualBox and use it normally.
Export with to Vagrant Box format:
/usr/bin/vagrant package --base debian-710-x64-vbox4212
Looks what's inside the box
tar tf package.box ./box-disk1.vmdk ./Vagrantfile ./box.ovf