vagrant-lxc base boxes

This repository contains a set of scripts for creating base boxes for usage with vagrant-lxc 1.0+.

⚠️ Deprecated ⚠️

I've stepped down as a maintainer of the plugin and I'm no longer maintaining this repo. Feel free to use it as a starting point for your own boxes and if you need any help with that just LMK! 🍻

This fork is still maintained: https://github.com/obnoxxx/vagrant-lxc-base-boxes

What distros / versions can I build with this?

• Ubuntu
  • Precise 12.04 x86_64
  • Quantal 12.10 x86_64
  • Raring 13.04 x86_64
  • Saucy 13.10 x86_64
  • Trusty 14.04 x86_64
  • Utopic 14.10 x86_64
  • Vivid 15.04 x86_64
  • Wily 15.10 x86_64
• Debian
  • Squeeze x86_64
  • Wheezy x86_64
  • Jessie x86_64
  • Sid x86_64
• Fedora
  • 19 x86_64
  • 20 x86_64
  • 21 x86_64
  • 22 x86_64
  • 23 x86_64
  • rawhide x86_64
• CentOS
  • 6 x86_64

Building the boxes

In order to build the boxes you need to have the lxc-download template available on your machine. If you don't have one around please create one based on this and drop it on your lxc templates path (usually /usr/share/lxc/templates).

git clone https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc-base-boxes.git
cd vagrant-lxc-base-boxes
make precise

By default no provisioning tools will be included but you can pick the ones you want by providing some environmental variables. For example:

PUPPET=1 CHEF=1 SALT=1 BABUSHKA=1 \
make precise

Will build a Ubuntu Precise x86_64 box with latest Puppet, Chef, Salt and Babushka pre-installed.

Pre built base boxes

NOTE: None of the base boxes below have a provisioner pre-installed

Distribution	VagrantCloud box
Ubuntu Precise 12.04 x86_64	fgrehm/precise64-lxc
Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 x86_64	fgrehm/trusty64-lxc
Debian Wheezy 7 x86_64	fgrehm/wheezy64-lxc
Debian Jessie 8 x86_64	glenux/jessie64-lxc
CentOS 6 x86_64	fgrehm/centos-6-64-lxc

What makes up for a vagrant-lxc base box?

See vagrant-lxc/BOXES.md

Known issues

• We can't get the NFS client to be installed on the containers used for building Ubuntu 13.04 / 13.10 / 14.04 base boxes.
• Puppet can't be installed on Debian Sid
• Salt can't be installed on Ubuntu 13.04