Creating a vagrant base box for ubuntu 13.04 32bit desktop - SumitBisht/checklist_and_guides GitHub Wiki

Creating a base box in Vagrant

This tutorial is for creating a vagrant box for ubuntu 13.04 Desktop

Along the tutorial you must follow this conventions

Hostname: vagrant-[os-name], e.g. vagrant-debian-lenny
Domain: vagrantup.com (causes delays in resolving own FQDN, as in dnsdomainname or hostname --fqdn commands)
Root Password: vagrant
Main account login: vagrant
Main account password: vagrant

Setup the Virtual Machine

Download ubuntu desktop 32bit version
Create a virtual box called vagrant-raring32
- Make sure you allocate enough disk space in a dynamically resizing drive. Typically, we use a 40 GB drive, which is big enough for almost everything.
- Make sure the default memory allocation is not too high. Most people don’t want to download a box to find it using 1 GB of RAM. We typically set it at 512 MB to start, since that is the size of most small slices. The RAM is configurable by the user at run-time using their Vagrantfile.
- Disable audio, usb, etc. controllers unless they’re needed. Most applications don’t need to play music! So save resources by disabling these features.
Run the machine and do a minimal installation of the machine

Prepare the Virtual Machine

Now with the machine loaded

Install basic packages

 sudo apt-get -y install vim git-core

and then, make vim your default editor (personal preference)

 sudo update-alternatives --config editor

Change hostname
```
 sudo hostname vagrant
```
Create admin group
```
 sudo groupadd admin
```
assign the vagrant user to the admin group
```
 sudo usermod -G admin vagrant
```

Edit the sudoers file (/etc/sudoers)

and add this three lines to the file

 Defaults env_keep="SSH_AUTH_SOCK"
 %admin ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

After that, it should look like this:

 # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
 #
 # Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of
 # directly modifying this file.
 #
 # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
 #
 Defaults  env_reset
 Defaults	secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
 Defaults	env_keep="SSH_AUTH_SOCK"

 # Host alias specification
 # User alias specification
 # Cmnd alias specification

 # User privilege specification
 root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

 # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
 #%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
 %admin ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

 # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
 %sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Execute this bootstrap script using sudo:

 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 apt-get -y update
 apt-get -y install build-essential zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline6-dev libyaml-dev
 cd /tmp
 wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.0/ruby-2.0.0-p353.tar.gz
 tar -xvzf ruby-2.0.0-p353.tar.gz
 cd ruby-2.0.0-p353/
 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
 make
 make install
 gem install chef ruby-shadow --no-ri --no-rdoc

Install puppet

 sudo apt-get -y install puppet puppetmaster

install openssh-server packages

 sudo apt-get -y install openssh-server

Install vagrant's public keys

 mkdir ~/.ssh/
 chmod 0755 ~/.ssh
 cd ~/.ssh
 wget http://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/raw/master/keys/vagrant
 wget http://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/raw/master/keys/vagrant.pub
 mv vagrant.pub authorized_keys
 chmod 0644 authorized_keys

Install virtual box guest additions

first, install dkms and reboot

 sudo apt-get -y install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential dkms
 sudo reboot

It is important to reboot before installing the guest additions, otherwise, they will not survive a kernel upgrade

then install the guest additions

Click on your VirtualBox window and select “Devices” and “Install Guest Additions”. The option is in the VM window, and not in the VirtualBox control panel. This will attach a virtual CD to your device, which you can mount and install the software from.

 sudo apt-get -y install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential
 mkdir /media/cdrom
 mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
 sudo sh /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Note: As this is a desktop version, you can directly install from GUI

Empty the cache
```
 sudo apt-get clean
```

Make the box

go to the virtual box directory (ex: ~/VirtualBox VM/vagrant-raring32)

then execute

vagrant package --base vagrant-raring32

and you'll have the package.box ready to use with vagrant :)

To add it to your box lists and init

vagrant box add vagrant-raring32 package.box
vagrant init vagrant-raring32
vagrant up

**Note: **