Packer - Ubuntu Virual Box With Desktop

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This is a stable example. It should successfully build out of the box

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This example creates a Ubuntu Virtual Box.

Pre-built Vagrant Box:

• vagrant init nitindas/ubuntu-18

This example build configuration installs and configures ubuntu desktop amd64.

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Requirements

The following software must be installed/present on your local machine before you can use Packer to build the Vagrant box file:

• Packer
• Vagrant
• VirtualBox (if you want to build the VirtualBox box)

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Usage

Make sure all the required software (listed above) is installed, then cd to the directory containing this README.md file, and run:

• Ubuntu 18

$ cd ubuntu-18
$ ubuntu-packer-build.sh 18.03 or 18.04 <VagrantCloud User/login> <VagrantCloud Password>

• Ubuntu 20

$ cd ubuntu-20
$ ubuntu-packer-build.sh <VagrantCloud User/login> <VagrantCloud Password>

After a few minutes, Packer should tell you the box was generated successfully, and the box was uploaded to Vagrant Cloud.

> Note: This configuration includes a post-processor that pushes the built box to Vagrant Cloud (which requires a VAGRANT_CLOUD_TOKEN environment variable to be set); remove the vagrant-cloud post-processor from the Packer template to build the box locally and not push it to Vagrant Cloud. You don't need to specify a version variable either, if not using the vagrant-cloud post-processor.

Testing built boxes

There's an included Vagrantfile that allows quick testing of the built Vagrant boxes. From VagrantFile-Example/ directory, run one the following command after building the box:

_$ cd VagrantFile-Example/_
_$ vagrant up_

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Authors

Module maintained by Module maintained by the - Nitin Das